FAMOUS AUTHORS
She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She became America’s first female self made millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
He gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
He voice acted Mufasa in The Lion King.
Who is James Earl Jones?
Who author wrote “The Color Purple”?
Who is Alice Walker?
He founded FUBU.
Who is Daymond John?
This gymnast became the first to win four allaround Olympic titles.
Who is Simone Biles?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
She wrote the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
He created Motown Records.
Who is Berry Gordy?
He was the first African American heavyweight boxing champion.
Who is Jack Johnson?
He was the 14 year old boy from Chicago who’s murder in Money, Mississippi sparked the Civil Rights Movement in 1955.
Who is Emmett Till?
This filmmaker created Black Panther.
Who is Ryan Coogler?
This author won the Pulitzer for Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison?
She founded the first Black-owned bank in the U.S.
Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
He became the NBA’s alltime scoring leader.
Who is LeBron James?
This prominent Civil Right leader advocated for Black nationalist principles like independent Black communities, economic self-sufficiency and self-defense.
Who is Malcolm X?
She was the first Black performer on a national TV show (1948).
Who is Ethel Waters?
He wrote "The Souls of Black Folk".
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
He started the Black owned publishing company responsible for magazines like Ebony and Jet.
Who is John H. Johnson?
She was the first Black woman to win Wimbledon.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This Civil Rights leader was the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi and a key investigator of the lynching of Emmett Till.
Who is Medgar Evers?
He founded the first major Blackowned film studio.
Who is Tyler Perry?