Black Inventors
He developed hundreds of products from the peanut.
Who is George Washington Caver?
The first Black president in the US.
Who was Barack Obama?
In 1905, she moved to Denver combining her hair care knowledge with her husband's marketing skills becoming the first female self-made millionaire.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
He was the man behind Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
She became the first Black, first South Asian America, and first woman Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
He invented the three-position traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This artist is the 1st African American to have a video shown on MTV.
Who is Michael Jackson?
He was a Denver native, graduated from Manual High School, and won his first term on the council in 1983. A Denver recreation cents was renamed in his honor.
Who was Hiawatha Davis?
He wrote the Black (Negro) National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
She is the first African American woman who orbited into space aboard the shuttle Endeavor.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
Lonnie Johnson developed this mega water gun in his free time while working at NASA.
What is the Super Soaker?
Who was the first Black Miss America?
Who is Vanessa Williams?
She was Denver's first black woman resident and the first African-American woman involved in the Colorado Gold Rush.
Who was Clara Brown?
This is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had still been enslaved in Texas after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued in 1863.
What is Juneteenth?
She was 6 years old when she became the first AfricanAmerican student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the height of desegregation.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
He was offended by the complaint of a customer and invented the potato chip.
Who is George Crum?
Bessie Coleman was the first Black licensed what?
What is a pilot?
It is a historic black neighborhood that was one of the largest African American communities in the western United States. In 1870, the African-American population of Denver grew from 237 to more than 5,000 in 1910.
What is Five Points?
Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, there was a brave 15-year-old girl who chose not to sit at the back of the bus. She was detained and arrested for her resistance. Her name is....
Who is Claudette Colvin?
She made history as the youngest poet to read at a president inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Her innovation of the natural gas heating furnace changed the way we heat our living or working spaces.
Who is Alice H. Parker?
The first black (women) to serve on the House of Representatives.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970's.
Who is Ron Stallworth?
Her cancer cells were taken without her consent by a researcher. Her cells would go on to advance medical research for years to come. It played a crucial role in the development of the polio vaccine.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
In 2013, three radical Black organizers - Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomato created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called....
What is Black Lives Matter?