African American Firsts
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
This African American woman who helped hundred of enslaved people in the US escape to freedom.
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 Montgomery, Alabama buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
The self–proclaimed “greatest 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?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
The founder and organizer of the Church of God in Christ?
Who is Bishop C.H. Mason?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The first Black baseball player in Major League baseball?
a. Willie Mays
b. Jackie Robinson
c. Hank Aaron
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The first black mayor of the City of Chicago.
Who is Harold Washington?
He 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?
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
She 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?
He was the first Black boxer.
a. Muhammed Ali
b. Jack Johnson
c. Mike Tyson
Who is Jack Johnson?
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 who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
The first Black Disney princess.
Who is Princess Tiana?
He is considered to be the father of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is BARACK OBAMA?
She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
He 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?