They did it first
She became the first Black woman to travel into space on September 12, 1992.
Who is Dr Mae Jemison
He was a former enslaved man who became a powerful speaker and writer against slavery
Who is Frederick Douglass?
He was the first Black president of the United States of America
Who is Barack Obama?
This Jamaican sprinter is known as the fastest man in the world
Who is Usain Bolt?
This document signed in 1863, declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first leader of the modern American civil rights movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This group of African American pilots served during the World War II and trained in Alabama.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This scientist is famous for finding many uses for peanuts and helping farmers
Hint: The inventor of peanut butter
Who is George Washington Carver?
This NBA star won five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers
Who was Kobe Bryant?
This amendment in the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in 1865
What is the 13th Amendment?
First black women elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who led the struggle to end institutionalized racial segregation.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
She is an American politician who made history as the first Black woman elected to Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This gymnast became the first Black woman to win Olympic gold in the all-around competition.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
This was a thriving black business district before the 1921 massacre
Hint: It was in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
What is Black Wall Street?
The first teen activist who refused to give up her bus seat
Hint: She did it before Rosa Parks
Who is Claudette Colvin?
She helped enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 1850s
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice and for his pivotal role as a civil rights lawyer
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This baseball player broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947
Who was Jackie Robinson?
This is what the letters HBCU stand for
What is Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
First black college student killed in the Civil Rights Movement after attempting to use a "whites-only restroom"
Who is Samuel L Younge Jr?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools
What is Brown V. Board of Education
She is most famous for empowering grassroots leaders, mentoring future activists, and her crucial role in forming the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She also mentored MLK.
Who is Ella Baker?
This boxer said "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Who was Muhammad Ali?
This is the full name of the civil rights organization that fights racial discrimination and promotes equal rights, the name is commonly shortened to NAACP.
Give the full name
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?