Firsts
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger?
Harriet Tubman
Who am I: He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. This man later when on to become a Nobel Prize Winner.
President Obama
______ was the first Black female dancer to join New York City Ballet in 1971 and then made history again when she became the first Black ballerina to become a principal dancer with a major American ballet company.
Debra Austin
Black History Month was originally known as...
"Negro History Week"
Who was the first known African-American published author?
Jupiter Hammon: "An Evening Thought" (Poem)
Who said, "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Beyonce Knowles
____ was the first Black baseball player in major league baseball.
Jackie Robinson
Billy Dee Williams made a guest appearance as Pastor Dan in this show.
That '70s Show
What was the first African-American U.S. military regiment?
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment
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."?
Maya Angelou
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Madame CJ Walker
______ was the first Black entertainer to host his own television variety show in 1956.
Nat King Cole
Black History Month was first celebrated in Kent State in the year ____
1970
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
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Muhammad Ali
In addition to his influential campaigns to become president of the United States, in 1984 and 1988, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is known for his leadership roles with which civil rights organizations?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH), and Rainbow Coalition.
______ was the first person to develop a working model of a steam engine for a war ship.
Benjamin Bradley
___________ was the first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854
John Mercer Langston
Who am I: He was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations and in 1963, received the Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy
Ralph Bunche
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
Who am I: Dominance in women's track and field. Considered by many to be the best all-around female athlete in the world. Won a Silver metal in 1984, & Gold metals in 1988, 1992, 1996
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
_____ was born with an eye for the world and its indifferences, worked beyond poverty and became the first African American Photographer to create work for the Life Magazine.
Gordon Parks
________ developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among including cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics.
George Washington Carver