African American First
The first African American football coach to win the Super Bowl
Who is Tony Dungy
Who said, 'Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about anybody that grows up in the hood'
Dough Boy or Ice Cube (Boyz in the Hood)
This Murfreesboro BCN member has worked 27 years for General Mills and is originally from St. Louis
Who is Val Smith
Wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
His autopsy of former Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster in 2002 led to the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Who is Dr. Bennet Omalu
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
Who said "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
This years speaker of the MLK Holiday breakfast sponsored by the General Mills Foundation and the United Negro College Fund
Who is Don Lemon news anchor for CNN
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the Confederate states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
The first man ever to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Who is Usain Bolt
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
The inaugural speaker of the MLK Holiday breakfast sponsored by the General Mills Foundation and the United Negro College Fund
Who is Actress Cicely Tyson
This president signed the most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstruction also know as the Civil Rights Act.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson
2008 Grammy Award winner for Best Spoken Word Album titled "The Audacity of Hope"
Who is Barack Obama
The first African-American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Who said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
The first African American Vice President at GMI
Who is Cyrus Johnson
A leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), coins the phrase "black power" in a speech in Seattle.
Who is Stokely Carmichael
This Actress was the first African American to win an Academy Award in 1940
Who is Hattie McDaniel
The first African American to win the All-England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, on July 6, 1957
Who is Althea Gibson
Who said "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T Washington
The 2019 MLK Holiday Breakfast Theme
What is Doing for Others: A call to Social Action
Founders of the militant group named Black Panthers
Who is Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
The first African American Senator
Who is Hiram Revels