Amazing Women
Author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who was Maya Angelou?
She helped inspire the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was Rosa Parks?
Broke the color barrier in baseball
Who was Jackie Robinson?
South Africa's 1st Black head of state
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Former Secretary of State & 4 Star General
Who is Colin Powell?
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who was Harriet Tubman?
AZ, NH, VA, UT, & SC were the last states to recognize his holiday
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.
1st AA to win a Grand Slam tennis title
Who was Althea Gibson?
44th President of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
Prominent black scientist in the early 20th century
Who was George Washington Carver?
Poet who was the 1st AA to publish a book
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
She refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Who was Wilma Rudolph?
1st Black woman from the South elected to the House
Who was Barbara Jordan?
Statesman, orator & abolitionist leader
Who was Frederick Douglass?
1st Black women to travel into space
Who is Mae Jemison?
SNCC leader who was known for causing "Good Trouble"
Conscientious objector to the Vietnam War
Who was Muhammad Ali?
She ran for President in 1972
Who was Shirley Chisolm?
Strange Fruit singer nicknamed Lady Day
Who was Billie Holiday?
1st AA to receive the Pultizer Prize
Who was Gwendolyn Brooks?
She guided the Little Rock Nine
Who was Daisy Bates?
Protested police brutality in the NFL
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
She was member of FDR's Black Cabinet
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
She was a famous anti-lynching journalist
Who was Ida B. Wells-Barnett?