This natural chemist was the first African American to teach at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Who is Professor Samuel Massie Jr.?
100
She is an American ophthalmologist and inventor who was the first African American woman doctor to be given a patent for a medical invention.
Who is Patricia Bath?
100
She one of the best-known writers among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, this writer was the first science fiction writer to be given the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Who is Octavia E. Butler?
100
He is remembered as the first African-American to be assigned at a pre-dominantly white college called New York Central College, McGrawville.
Who is Charless Reason?
200
This 17 year old girl won the 500 meter track in the 2008 U.S. Speed skating Olympics.
Who is Maame Biney?
200
This African American biologists was born on August 14, 1883 and was acknowledged for his work on "egg fertilization" and "the structure of the cell."
Who is Ernest Everett?
200
She is the first African American woman to have a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Who is Marie Maynard?
200
This author has produced a plethora of books that have been nominated for numerous things. For example, John Henry Days, won the Young Lions Fiction Award.
Who is Colson Whitehead?
200
This mathematician was the second African-American to earn Ph.D in mathematics and create a mathematics graduate program at Howard University.
Who is Dudley Weldon Woodard?
300
The first African American to win the Heisman Trophy but died at 23 due to leukemia.
Who is Ernie Davis?
300
He found out a specific mixture of chemicals can cause plants to release light.
Who is Emmett Chappelle?
300
This oncologist wanted to find safer ways for cancer treatments and would do the experiments on cells, instead of mice or patients like others.
Who is Jane Wright?
300
This writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of novels like The Bluest Eye and Love. She has received multiple awards for her books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
This woman taught at Washington DC’s public schools and also served as chair at Dunbar High School and District of Columbia Teachers College. However, her biggest accomplishment is being the first African American women to have a Ph.D in Mathematics.
Who is Martha Euphemia Lofton Hayes?
400
She was the first African American women to depict cartoons of blacks in a positive way.
Who is Jackie Ormes?
400
This African American researcher was known for finding out that medicinal drugs can come from plants.
Who is Percy Lavon Julian?
400
An African American chemist who realized that high cholesterol and clogged arteries was important to understanding heart attacks.
Who is Marie M. Daly?
400
His boy called Native Son was voted a "Top 100 Title of the 20th Century," by AALBC.com Readers and sold 250,000 copies in six weeks.
Who is Richard Wright?
400
This African American woman was the third black woman to have a Ph. D in her career. She was responsible for setting up the first electronic digital computer center at a minority college in 1960. She won a Ford Foundation grant to Cambridge University and other grants to University of California and Columbia University.
Who is Marjorie Lee Browne?
500
This judge became the first African American to govern the Ninth Judicial Districts, which consists of Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, and Westchester countries.
Who is Kathie Davidson?
500
A Nigerian computer scientist won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance in computing applications. Additionally, he invented the " Connection Machine" that helps to examine petroleum fields.
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
500
For those who no longer had limbs, this physical therapist and forensic scientist created a feeding tube for them.
Who is Bessie Blount Griffen?
500
He is the author of Devil in a Blue Dress, White Butterfly, A Red Death, and Black Betty.
Who is Walter Mosley?
500
This mathematician, mechanical engineer, and nuclear scientist was known as the "negro genius", due to the fact that he was the youngest student ever to enter the University of Chicago at the age of 13.