Pioneers and Firsts
This actress won an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind" in 1940.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
In this year, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
What is 1955?
This Black scientist developed over 300 products from peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This individual wrote the autobiography "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This holiday is a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas.
What is Juneteenth (June 19th)?
This athlete broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this historic speech during the 1963 March on Washington.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
This individual founded the Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black university in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This historic Black cultural movement took place in Harlem during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This landmark legislation, signed into law in 1965, significantly increased Black voter participation in the United States.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This individual served as the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This Black woman helped hundreds of enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This famous jazz musician was nicknamed "Satchmo."
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This was the name of the all-Black fighter pilot group during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
Shirley Chisolm was the first African American woman to be elected to this government system.
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended racial segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This influential poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist is celebrated for her series of seven autobiographies, including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This African American author wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The 1948 Executive Order #9981 did this to the US Armed Forces.
What is desegregation?
This person became the first African American U.S. President.
Who is Barack Obama?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win this prize in literature.
What is the Nobel Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win this prize for her poetry.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
This was the name of the first Black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States.
What is Freedom's Journal?