Civil Rights Activists
Refused to give up their bus seat in 1955
Who is Rosa Parks?
This UMD cultural center supports Black student life, leadership, and programming.
What is Nyumburu Cultural Center?
African American singer that became known as the ‘Queen of Soul’?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
First Black U.S. President
Who is Barack Obama?
This gymnast is the most decorated gymnast in World Championship history
Who is Simone Biles?
The leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This campus library houses major collections on African American history and culture.
What is Hornbake Library?
This artist became the first rapper to win the Grammy for Album of the Year as a solo artist in over 20 years at the 2024 Grammy Awards
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
First Black Major League Baseball player in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This athlete protested police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem.
Who is Colin Kaepernick?
This abolitionist escaped slavery and led others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This UMD performing arts center is named after a legendary Black opera singer.
What is Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center?
First Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress
Who is Halle Berry?
First Black woman to host the Oscars
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
This NBA superstar starred alongside Bugs Bunny in the 2021 sequel to Space Jam.
Who is LeBron James?
Delivered the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech
Who is Malcom X
Black polymath that spoke multiple languages, helped design Washington, D.C., and was a self-taught astronomer and mathematician? (and also has a room named after him on the second floor of the stamp !)
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
This fashion designer made history as the first Black artistic director for Louis Vuitton’s menswear
Who is Virgil Abloh?
She became the first Black woman billionaire through her media empire and talk show.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This astrophysicist hosted the reboot of the TV series Cosmos.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
He founded Tuskegee Institute and promoted Black economic self-reliance.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Civil rights activist that became the first African American student to integrate the University of Maryland School of Law after winning a landmark case in 1935 (has a building at UMD named after him)
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This R&B singer became the youngest solo artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys
Who is Lauryn Hill?
This abolitionist, once enslaved, became the first Black man nominated for Vice President on a U.S. presidential ticket.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This poet wrote the famous poem “Still I Rise.”
Who is Maya Angelou?