Inventors
Nigerian-American professor: She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and explosives.
Who is Omowunmi Sadik
First African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games & for which sport
Who is Jesse Owens and what is track and field
Landmark Supreme Court case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstituional
What is the brown v. board of education?
She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980
What is Valerie Thomas?
He is chairman and founder of Worldwide Technology, one of the largest African American-owned businesses in America.
Who is David Steward?
They fought in the civil war as the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and were officially established after the civil war by Congress. The movie Glory made about them
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth. Her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, was incorporated into the Global Positioning System
Gladys West
Named the "Galveston Giant" became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion
Who is Jack Johnson?
The first African American to teach at a predominantly white college
Who is Charles L. Reason?
He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard: He led the team that created the HP 2116A 16-bit minicomputer
Who is Roy Clay?
ABC's first African American Shark Tank investor
Who is Daymond John?
They were formed in 1942-1949 more than 20,000 black men and were the first black Marine Branch served in WW2 and Vietnam.
Who were the Montford Pointe Marines?
One of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console
Who is Jerry Lawson?
He is one of the greatest baseball players of all time and played for the San Francisco Giants.
Who is Barry Bonds?
KELLY MILLER
Who is the first black man to study at John Hopkins University
She became the first African American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992
Who is Mae Jemison
Maggie Lena Walker
Who is the first black woman to own and lead a bank in the United States?
DORIS MILLER
Who was the person who carried several wounded soldiers to safety and shot down a plane and received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor: The movie Pearl Harbor is about him
He developed the ISA bus with his partner Dennis Moeller, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip
Who is DR. Mark Dean?
The first female African American became the first to win a Grand Slam title. First African American to win the U.S. National Championships
Who is Althea Gibson?
What is Bethune-Cookman College
Developed the laser phaco probe, a medical device that improves on the use of lasers to remove cataracts, and "for ablating and removing cataract lenses
Who is Patricia Bath?
The Great Migration
What is a large-scale movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities in search of better opportunities
First black American military pilots established in 1941: They received the congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush
Who are the RedTail’s (Tuskegee Airmen)
American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States.He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War.
Who is Granville T Woods?
She was the first African American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
RUBY BRIDGES
Who is the first black student at a New Orleans elementary school?
What surgery was Daniel Hale Williams the first to successfully perform?
Open heart surgery?
The first African American president and first African American female vice president.
Who is Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
She was the highest-ranking African American female officer in the air force & department of defense: She received the Bronze Star, Presidential Unit Citation and Vietnam Service Medal
Who is Gen. Marcelite J. Harris?
He invented the gas mask, a hair straightening chemical and three-way traffic lights
Who is Garrett Morgan?
He broke the color barrier when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947
Who is Jackie Robinson
She was a nurse and educator who became the first black teacher to openly educate African Americans in Georgia at the age of 14
Who is Susie King Taylor?
Who is Charles Drew?
Co-Invented the IBM personal computer
Who is Mark Dean?
855 women joined the war effort to address a three-year mail backlog. A movie was recently made about them
What is The Six Triple Eight?