Medicine
First African-American PHYSICIAN
Who is James Durham?
He broke the MLB color barrier in 1947 as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He invented the traffic light and gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Laws that were created to exclude African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
She is known as Black Moses and helped over 300 people escape slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
First African-American woman to earn medical degree in 1864. She was a Delaware native.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
She holds the World Record for 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash.
Who is Florence Griffin Joyner?
He is credited with inventing the earliest air conditioning unit and assisted with creating the light bulb and telephone.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
He is credited with establishing the annual celebration of Black History in February.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Medical doctors stole her cells and used them to cure many diseases and conduct research because her cells would not die. She was never told nor compensated for their use. Her cells (HeLa cells) are credited with being used to eradicate polio.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
He led the Boston Celtics to an unprecedented 11 championships in just 13 seasons.
Who is Bill Russell?
As an agricultural chemist, he discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
He was a self-educated scientist, astronomer, inventor, writer, and antislavery publicist. He built a striking clock entirely from wood, published a Farmers' Almanac, and actively campaigned against slavery.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
He was a former slave who published the newspaper "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Performed the first, successful open-heart surgery
Who is DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS III?
He became the first black player to quarterback a Super Bowl team to victory.
Who is Doug Williams?
She is credited with a hair-growing formula developed specifically for African American women. She is often referred to as America’s first self-made female millionaire.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
It was a thriving black city that was burned down by a white mob because a white woman said that she was raped.
What is Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street?
He was a fourteen year old black boy who was lynched for whistling or making an inappropriate comment to a white woman? She later admitted he did nothing to her.
Who is Emmett Till?
He was best known for his work with blood plasma. He helped set up the American Red Cross Blood Bank. He also established the first blood bank in England.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
He set world records in three different track events at the 1935 Olympic Games?
Who is Jesse Owens?
The book created by Victor Hugo Green to help African-Americans find a safe place to eat and find accommodations while traveling.
What is "The Green Book?"
She is the youngest inaugural poet to recite her poem "The Hills We Climb" at the Presidential Inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
The invention of this machine increased the level of brutality for the enslaved because of the large sums of money slave owners made using it.
What is the cotton gin?