African American Sports
First African American player to play major league professional baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Her novel was turned into a movie starring Angela Bassett, who fell in love with a younger man while on vacation in Jamaica
Who is Terry McMillan?
This show featured Fred and Lamont
What is Sanford and Son?
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
He was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree
Who is Edward Alexander Bouchet?
She and her sister were once ranked #1 in tennis
Who is Venus and Serena Williams?
This author won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name - The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker
This show's theme song was sang by Aretha Franklin
What is A Different World?
First African American oriented cable channel
What is BET?
He was the only African American member of Thomas Edison's engineering lab
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
African American gymnast to win gold medal in women's all-around event at the 2012 Olympic Games
Who is Gabby Douglas?
The writer of the popular novel that tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa
Who is Alex Haley?
Moved in with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air
Who is The Fresh Prince?
First African American woman to win Miss American
What is Vanessa Williams?
African American inventor who created the 3 position traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Five time world record holder in track
Who is Jesse Owens?
He was the first African American to be elected to head Harvard's Law Review, he wrote the memoir Dreams from My Father, and served as the 44th President of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
What is The Cosby Show?
First African American woman astronaut
Who is Mae Jemison?
First African American to be granted a U.S. patent for his method of dry cleaning
Who is Thomas L. Jennings
He was the first athlete and the first African American to win an Oscar for his animated short film, Dear Basketball
Who is Kobe Bryant?
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Who is James Baldwin?
This show featured Dwayne, Rerun, and Raj
What is What's Happening?
First record label to feature primarily all African Americans
What is Motown Records?
Born in Columbus, Ohio he invented the telegraph
Who is Granville T. Woods?