Famous African Americans
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This African American musical form was born out of Blues, Ragtime and Marching Bands
What is Jazz?
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
What is the Ku Klux Klan
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which pop, funk, folk, and rock musical legend recently passed away? Known for song "Purple Rain".
Who is Prince?
Born to a teenage single mother, this woman built her career to have her own talk show and is now worth over $800 million and considered the wealthiest African-American in the world.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcom X?
Who said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is Barack Obama?
Which blind R and B artist is known for the song, "Superstition"?
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Who was considered the formative figure in the modern fight for civil rights in relation to the NAACP?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
Who was the first African American female millionaire?
Who is Madame CJ. Walker?
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou?
Who is often referred to as the "Queen of Soul"?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
What constitutional amendment made slavery illegal?
What is the 13th amendment?
Who said “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what black singer is the most award winning female artist of all time?
Who is Whitney Houston?