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She is the 1st African American to be ranked #1 in the world in Tennis.
Who is Venus Williams
This amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of color or previous conditions of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
He is the leading rusher in NFL history.
Who is Emmitt Smith?
King T’Challa is from this mythical country in Africa.
What is Wakanda?
He was a scientist and loved to study plants. He developed over 300 ways to use peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This African American was the first to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This Civil Rights Activist was also the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi. He as later murdered in his own driveway.
Who is Medgar Evers?
He is the only African American man to win a singles Wimbledon title.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
This R&B group has not made an album in over 40 years but continue to sell out tours. They are known for cookout/ party anthems, like “Before I let Go”.
Who are Frank Beverly and Maze?
After accidentally slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
Who is George Crum?
He is the 1st African American Billionaire.
Who is Bob Johnson
He was 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 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
In the 1996 Olympic games, he became the 1st athlete to win both the 200- and 400-meter races.
Who is Michael Johnson?
A Different World was an iconic TV show that debuted in September of 1987. It was inspired by student life historically black colleges and universities. This was the name of the fictitious HBCU that the students on A Different World attended.
What is Hillman?
She invented the folding cabinet bed.
Who is Sarah Goode?
In 1997 she became the 1st African American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
Who is Tyra Banks
A group of Civil Rights activists both African American and whites who participated in bus trips through the American south 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This boxer was known as the Brown Bomber.
Who is Joe Louis?
She is known as the “Queen of Soul”.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Name two inventions by Garret A. Morgan.
What are the traffic signal and the gas mask?
This Author became the 1st African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
This was Malcolm X’s name before converting to the Nation of Islam and becoming a major force in the African American fight against injustice and inequality.
Who is Little?
This baseball great finished his career with 755 homeruns.
Henry “Hank” Aaron?
In the movie Friday, Craig was fired for this.
What is stealing boxes?
He invented the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb.
Who is Lewis Latimer?