Black Trailblazers
She was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first to run for U.S. President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1955 arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He is known as the “King of Pop.”
Who is Michael Jackson?
She escaped slavery and became a leading “conductor” of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This athlete is widely regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time.
Who is Simone Biles?
He became the first African American Supreme Court Justice in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
MLK delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during this historic 1963 event.
What is the March on Washington?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “I, Too” and “Harlem.”
Who is Langston Hughes?
Known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” she investigated Emmett Till’s murder.
Who is Mamie Till-Mobley?
This film became the highest-grossing movie by a Black director (Ryan Coogler).
What is Black Panther?
This man broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This organization, founded in 1909, is one of the oldest civil rights groups in the U.S.
What is the NAACP?
This music genre, born in the Bronx in the 1970s, turned 50 years old in 2023.
What is Hip-Hop?
The first Black woman to travel to space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
This entrepreneur and beauty mogul became the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2022 through her company SKN by LH.
Who is Lori Harvey?
She was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Who is Alice Coachman?
She was a 15-year-old who refused to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
She became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history in 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
She founded an empire in haircare and became the first female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
She became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison?
He became the first African American U.S. President in 2009
Who is Barack Obama?
This law, signed in 1965, outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
He painted “The Sugar Shack,” famously featured on Good Times and Marvin Gaye’s album.
Who is Ernie Barnes?
She was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and a pioneer in economics.
Who is Dr. Phyllis Ann Wallace?
In 2022, this woman became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?