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The name of the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor
Who is Sidney Poitier? - "Lilies of the Field" in 1963.
Person who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The author who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who is Maya Angelou?
The first Black golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament
Who is Tiger Woods?
This inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?
A type of 1970s film that exploited black stereotypes.
What is Blaxsploitation films
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
The author was a major leader in the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The Globetrotters were a famous sports team of the 1960’s in this sport.
What is Basketball?
Carl Sagan influenced this prominent astrophysicist, author, and science communicator with his show Cosmos.
Who is Neil Degrasse Tyson?
Famous director known for Do The Right Thing and BlacKkKlansman
Who is Spike Lee?
The first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This professional baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs, the highest total in major league history.
Who is Hank Aaron?
He was held in such high regard, his inventions were called "the Real McCoy."
Who is Elijah McCoy?
The name of the first African American to win a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play?
Who is James Earl Jones? - "The Great White Hope" in 1969
The US Supreme Court decision created the legal fiction of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
The author of "Notes of a Native Son"
Who is James Baldwin?
This prizefighter won the middleweight title a total of five times during his career.
Who is Sugar Ray Robinson?
After accidently slicing potatoes too thin, he created the potato chip.
Who is George Crum?
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Halle Berry - "Monster's Ball" in 2002
The Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as this in 1921.
What is Black Wallstreet?
This author's father was the mayor of one of America's first all-black incorporated communities?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The Scholar, actor and performer that was an All-American football star, Valedictorian of his class at Rutgers, and earned a law degree from Columbia University.
Who is Paul Robeson?
Garrett Morgan only received a sixth-grade formal education but was a skilled inventor who created this invention for firefighters.
What is the Gas Mask?