Firsts
Politicians and Activists
Quotes
Entertainers
Writers
100
First black star of a network TV show
Who is Bill Cosby?
100
First black Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell?
100
This person said, "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
Who is Malcolm X?
100
In 2002, she became the first black woman to win an Oscar in the Best Actress category.
Who is Halle Berry?
100
This poet is known for her seven autobiographies, the first being titled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
First man to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Who is Usain Bolt?
200
First black female Secretary of State
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
200
This person said, "Man, if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know."
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
This Golden Glode, Academy Award, and Tony winner is best known for his portrayal of real-life figures such as Malcolm X and Herman Boone.
Who is Denzel Washington?
200
She is the author of the book "The Color Purple", which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Alice Walker?
300
First black supreme court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This minister and civil rights activist hosts the political talk show PoliticsNation.
Who is Al Sharpton?
300
This person said, "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Getting his start on SNL, many know him for his voice characters in popular animated movies.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
300
This author is known for her short stories and her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
400
First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
This civil rights activist received the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
This person said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Who is MLK?
400
Having won 18 Grammy awards, she is known as the Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
400
This journalist was the first black man to own and publish a major daily newspaper (Tribune).
Who is Robert Maynard?
500
First black female to win a Grammy
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
500
This politician and U.N. diplomat was the first black man to win the Nobel Peace prize in 1950 for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
500
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This child prodigy has won 25 Grammy awards and signed with Motown when he was 11 years old.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
500
She was the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. A few of her books are Fledgling, Kindred, and the Patternist series.
Who is Octavia Butler?
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