African American First
The first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods
'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.
Who is Harriet Tubman
Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Refused to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years
Who is Dorothy Height
The first woman to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleeza Rice?
This person said, "Do not call for Black power or Green power, call for Brain Power."
Who is Barbara Jordon?
Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
The organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This person said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
The phrase "Black Power" originated in 1966, during the James Meredith peace march in this state.
What is Mississippi?
The first training school for black nurses was incorporated in this city in 1891.
What is Chicago, IL?
The year the first Africans were brought to American to work as slaves.
What is 1619
This person said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
African American member of the U.S. House of Representatives who led the Bloody Sunday March across the Edmond Pettus Bridge.
Who was John Lewis?
The oldest public black college in the nation.
What is Cheney State College in Cheney, PA?
African American inventor who invented ice cream.
Who is Augustus Jackson?