Firsts
He was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of modern times.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
After writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem beginning in 1982.
Who was Maya Angelou?
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the steps of this national landmark in Washington D.C.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
He won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work in campaigning for civil rights against racial segregation.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
She was the first female African American and Native American pilot ever to hold an international pilot license.
Who was Bessie Coleman?
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee..."
Who was Muhammad Ali?
He won the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship in 1982 as a member of the North Carolina Tar Heels and is now an owner of the Charlotte Hornets.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Bob Marley was born and raised in this country south of the United States.
What is Jamaica?
He won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the games' track and field events.
Who was Jessie Owens?
She became the first Black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Mae Jemison?
"I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move."
Who was Rosa Parks?
This jazz saxophonist was born in Hamlet and grew up in High Point. A mural of him is near campus.
Who was John Coltrane?
It's the city in Alabama where Rosa Parks was born, George Washington Carver taught, and notable "airmen" attended school.
What is Tuskegee?
He won the World Series in 1955 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
She is known for being the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in U.S. Congress, was born in this city in southeastern North Carolina in 1827.
What is Fayetteville?
Bessie Coleman learned how to fly planes in this European country.
What is France?
He won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 for his reggae, ska, and rocksteady music.
Who was Bob Marley?
She became the first Black woman to win a court case regarding a family member's freedom against a white man.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Who was Maya Angelou?
Although not the first, the Greensboro Four were catalysts for this type of movement within the Civil Rights movement, best known at Woolworth's lunch counters.
What are sit-in movements?
It's this German city where Jesse Owens won all four of his Olympic gold medals.
What is Berlin?
He won the Spingarn Medal in 1923 for his research in Agricultural Chemistry.
Who is George Washington Carver?