Civil Rights Leaders
This leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
She became the first Black woman to win an Academy Award in 2002 for Monster’s Ball.
Who is Halle Berry?
He broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He became the first Black President of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This agricultural scientist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This legendary singer was known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles in tennis
Who is Serena Williams?
She became the first Black woman Vice President of the United States in 2021.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She helped calculate flight paths for NASA missions and was featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This Supreme Court case ended legal school segregation in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This author wrote Beloved and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
This NBA legend was nicknamed “His Airness.”
Who is Michael Jordan?
This holiday honors the end of slavery in the U.S. and is celebrated on June 19.
What is Juneteenth?
He invented the traffic signal and the gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This activist co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
This film, directed by Ryan Coogler, became a cultural phenomenon in 2018.
What is Black Panther?
She was the first Black woman to win Olympic gold in gymnastics (1996).
Who is Dominique Dawes?
He was the first Black Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This physician performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This poet performed “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
He became the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl in 1988.
Who is Doug Williams?
She was the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
She was the first African American woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?