African American First
Which African American was elected president of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who is the founder of Harpo Inc?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
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?
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?
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 the founder of Fubu TV and is also a business man on Shark Tank?
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Who holds the record for most Grammys?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who said “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work and persistence.”
Who is Colin Powell?
What famous pop singer is the founder of Fenty Beauty and Savage clothing?
Who is Rihanna?
What is the term used for a non-violent social protest, such as the event organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that occurred in 1960 in Greensboro, NC?
What is a sit-ins?
Who is the first African American to win an Academy Award for her supporting role in Gone with the Wind?
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Who said “A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
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 Martin Luther King Jr.?
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?
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Who is the first African American to develop and own a major luxury hotel?
Who is Don Peebles?
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 Malcolm X?
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?