Black History
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who is known as the "King of Pop"?
Michael Jackson
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Park
This person invented the home security system in 1966.
Marie Van Brittan Brown?
What year did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
1963
Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin
Who is known as "The Greatest" in boxing?
Muhammad Ali
Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who created the three-position traffic signal.
Garrett Morgan
Who was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
Alice Coachman
Who was the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize
Kendrick Lamar
Who was the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title in tennis?
Althea Gibson
civil rights leader became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in 1967.
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker water gun.
Lonnie Johnson
What was the name of the network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states?
Underground Railroad
Who sang "What's Going On"?
Marvin Gaye
Who holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals in track and field?
Carl Lewis
was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968 and later ran for President in 1972.
Shirley Chisholm
doctor performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893.
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American woman to win a Grammy Award?
Ella Fitzgerald
Who was the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl?
Tony Dungy
Who was the former U.S. Secretary of State was the first African-American woman to hold the position from 2005 to 2009
Condoleezza Rice
Who is the inventor that developed the three-position traffic signal, improving road safety
Garrett Morgan