Civil Rights Movement
Whose refusal to give up a seat on a bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
He was the 44th president of the United States of America
Barack Obama
made a fortune on her specialized beauty product line for African American women
Madem CJ Walker
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
Was a 5x NBA Champions and played his entire 20 seasons with the Los Angels Lakers
Kobe Bryant
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
NAACP
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce
Invented peanut butter
George Washington Carver
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
He hit 755 home runs in the MLB
Hank Aaron
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?
Malcom X
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Emmet Till
Improved Ironing Board
Sarah Boone
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T Washington
He said "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"
Muhammad Ali
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?
Martin Luther King JR
Who was the first Major League Baseball player to play baseball in the modern era.
Jackie Robinson
Invented Home Security System
Mary Van Brittan Brown
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Toni Morrison
who won four gold medals in the 100m sprint, the long jump, 200m sprint, and the 4x100m relay.
Jesse Owens
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
Alabama Church Bombing
Who was ranked the richest African American in the 21st century
Oprah Winfrey
Who invented the three light traffic light
Garrett Morgan
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
1619
was a six-time Olympic gold medalist and star basketball player for UCLA
Jackie Joyner Kersee