Sports
Who has the most NBA championships in the entire history of basketball with 11 rings
Bill Russell
Which abolitionist was nicknamed "Moses" for leading enslaved people to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who became the first Black woman billionaire?
Oprah Winfrey
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
Who was a pioneering sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance and founder of the Salon of Contemporary Negro Art?
Augusta Savage.
Who is the first black player to play for the MLB
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first Black Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first Black woman in space
Mae Jemison
Which landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Which artist is famous for his "Migration Series," depicting the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North?
Jacob Lawrence
Who was the first Black American to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games?
Debi Thomas
Who was the first black president
Barack Obama
Which author became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks
What movement was founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi?
Black Lives Matter
Known for her colorful, geometric paintings and as the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, who is she?
Alma Woodsey Thomas.
Who was the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl?
Doug Williams
Who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress (Senate)?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics?
Gabby Douglas
Which NYC neighborhood became a hub for Black artists and writers in the 1920s?
Harlem
Who was the first African American artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Romare Bearden
Who was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy?
Ernie Davis
Who was the first African American commissioned as a line field officer in the U.S. Army
Martin Delany
Who was the first Black person to reach the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
When was Slavery abolished in the United States
December 6, 1865
Which 20th-century artist is known for using painted story quilts to tell tales of African American life?