African American Firsts
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Her 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 Cleveland native was the only woman of African American decent to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
The name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A well-known African-American philanthropist who was famous for being an alternate in the United Nations General Assembly.
Who is Zelma Watson George
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington
"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
The first black congressman elected in the state of Ohio. He served 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives – representing the east side of Cleveland.
Who is Louis Stokes
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
First African American elected mayor of a major US city, serving in Cleveland from 1968 to 1971.
Who is Carl B Stokes
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
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.
The first African American woman elected to Congress from Ohio and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (11th District).
Who is Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The first male African-American athlete to obtain a sponsorship from Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas athletic shoe company.
Who is Jesse Owens
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman
African American was elected President of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama
This racially motivated attack took place in a church and caused the death of four girls.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Invented the gas mask, sewing machine belt & the electric traffic lights and others. He also helped create the Cleveland Association of Colored Men (later merged with the NAACP) & started the Cleveland Call in 1920, later to be named Call and Post.
Who is Garret A Morgan