Famous Quotes
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Shawn Carter
Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and galvanized the civil rights movement
Rosa Parks
First African-American star of a network television drama
Bill Cosby
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
Rosa Parks
Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi (Rae Sremmurd)
The first African American Woman elected to Congress.
Shirley Chrisholm
First African American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson
Telephone
Nah, Alexander Graham Bell
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
Christopher Wallace
Notorius B.I.G
First African American Woman Vice President
Kamala Harris
First African-American-oriented cable channel:
BET
Automatic Elevator Doors`
Black Invented! (Alexander Miles)
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
Jacques Webster II
Travis Scott
The first African American performer to win an Academy Award
Hattie McDaniel
First African-American superhero
The Falcon (Marvel, Captain America)
The Light Bulb
Nope! However, the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from African American inventor Lewis Latimer.
“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.”
Barak Obama
Lonnie Lynn
Common
The first African American woman to be a self-made millionaire
Madam CJ Walker
First African-American woman, and first woman, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
Aretha Franklin
Yep! (Frederick McKinley Jones)