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The first African American to be elected to the presidency who served as the 44th president.
Who is Barack Obama?
Singer who was the first female artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Civil rights activist who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and who helped found the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Inventor of the traffic signals and gas masks.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
the first black player in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
First female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
First African-American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar.
Who is Halle Barry?
U.S. Congressman and civil rights activist who was one of the original thirteen Freedom Riders
Who is John Lewis?
He designed an important safety feature for elevators: automatic doors.
Who is ALEXANDER MILES?
It is known as the "New Negro Movement". The most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Lawyer who won landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Choreographer and founder of the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Who is Alvin Ailey?
Educator and politician who was the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He invented the first wooden clock.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
The creator of the "Black National Anthem", Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
Abolitionist and women’s rights activist who was one of the first African-American women to win a lawsuit against a white man.
Sojourner Truth
First African-American to host a television variety show.
Who is Nat “King” Cole?
Political scientist and diplomat who was the rst African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Ralph Bunche?
Inventor and physicist who developed the first moon-based space observatory: an ultraviolet camera on Apollo 16.
George Carruthers
the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Educator and reformer who was the first president of Tuskegee University.
Booker T. Washington
Contralto singer who was the first African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Who is Marian Anderson?
Civil rights leader during the depression and one of the first African-American Congressmen.
Who is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr?
He created the first cartridge video game console.
Who is Gerald A. Lawson?
The first Institute for Colored Youth that was founded in 1837. It currently know as the oldest HBCU in the United States.
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?