Athletes
This basketball star won the NBA finals Most Valuable Player award three years in a row in the 1990s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a White woman.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This woman made a fortune in cosmetics.
Who is Madame C. J. Walker?
She was the 1st Black woman to receive an international pilot's license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This Michael Jackson album won eight Grammy awards in 1983.
What is Thriller?
Crippled as a child, she became the 1st African American woman to win 3 gold medals in one Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
He was the 1st president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This ex-slave took his mule-drawn school into poor farmlands to teach better methods for raising crops.
Who is George Washington Carver?
She was the 1st Black woman to serve in U. S. Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Recorded the song, "I'm Black and I'm Proud".
Who is James Brown?
This shortstop earned the nickname, "Wizard of Oz".
Who is Ozzie Smith?
Where the Civil Rights Memorial is located.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This person made the patent drawings for the 1st telephone.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
This was the 1st African American newspaper.
What is Freedom's Journal?
This African American actress portrayed Dorothy Dandridge.
Who is Halle Berry?
This prizefighter regained the heavyweight crown 20 years after Muhammad Ali took it away from him in 1974.
Who is George Foreman?
This outlawed tests and taxes that prevented Blacks from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Tom J. Martin patented this invention for home safety.
What is the fire extinguisher?
The 1st African American recording artist.
Who is Mamie Smith?
This major recording company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in 1959.
What is Motown Records?
This pro basketball star once scored 100 points in a single game.
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
This U.S. Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This African American doctor invented a way to store donated blood for a longer period of time.
Who is Charles Drew?
The 1st Black owned movie and tv production studio in the United States.
What is Harpo Studio?
This song is considered to be the National Negro Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?