Pioneers
First African-American Woman to travel to space
Who is Mae Jemison
gave the famous "I have a Dream" Speech
Who is Martin Luther King
Influential Jazz musician known as "Satchmo"
Who is Louis Armstrong
First African American to play in major league baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson
First African-American model to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine
Who is Tyra Banks
First African-American U.S. President?
Who is Barack Obama
The boycott Rosa Parks helped to inspire after her arrest
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A 2017 film, directed by Jordan Peele, that addresses the issues of race in America through a horror-thriller narrative
What is "Get Out"
First African-American to win an Olympic gold metal in gymnastics
Who is Gabby Douglas
All Eyes On Me is an album by which notorious rapper
Who is Tupac Shakur
First African-American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
The Black panthers emerged after this person's assassination
Who is Malcolm X
A novel by Zora Neale Hurston that became a defining work of the Harlem Renaissance
Considered the greatest basketball player of all time, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls
Who is Michael Jordan
Harriet Tubman was nicknamed after this Old Testament Figure
Who is Moses
Co-founded the NAACP in 1909
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
Supreme court case that upheld the 'separate but equal' doctrine in 1896
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
Record label founded in 1959 and became the largest Black-owned business in the U.S.
What is Motown Records
First black male tennis player to win a Grand Slam title
Who is Arthur Ashe
The name of the 14-year-old boy who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi after being falsely accused of offending a white woman
Who is Emmett Till
African-American author, educator, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Group of Civil Rights activists that rode interstate buses into segregated states
Who are the Freedom Riders
Fashion designer that became the first Black American to lead a major fashion house
Who is Virgil Abloh
NFL star who became the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy
Who is Ernie Davis
Name of the Netflix series about the Central Park Five
What is "When They See Us"