Sports
Has the most Olympic medals earned by a US gymnast
Who is Simone Bilkes 11 medals
Black woman with the most Grammy Awards
Beyoncé 32 Grammys
First African American woman elected to Congress and later ran for president
Shirley Chisholm
Founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
First black woman in space
Mae Jemison
First Black head coach in the modern NFL era
Art Shell
The number of EGOT winners name two of them
10 Whoopi Goldberg John Legend Jennifer Hudson Viola Davis James Earl Jones Quincy Jones Harry Belafonte Common Cynthia Erivo Billy Porter
First African American ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Founders the black panther party
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
This President officially recognized Black History Month
President Gerald Ford
NBA player who has scored the most points overall
Labron James
The only Black actor to appear on Forbes' 2023 list of highest-paid actors
Denzel Washington
First African American republican woman to serve in the house
Ludmya Bordeau “Mia” Love in 2014
True or False the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery. If true when, if false what did
False the 13th amendment
This city is known as the birthplace of hip hop
The Bronx, New York
First Black woman to win Wimbledon
Althea Gipson 1957
First major filmmaker and founder of a pioneering black film studio
Oscar Micheaux
First African American woman to be elected to Congress from Texas
Barbara Jordan
Lorraine Hotel
Hotel where MLK was assassinated
As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, this rapper took Ballet and poetry
Tupac Shakur
In 2021 first African American woman to coach professionally in baseball
Bianca Smith
First black male and black female to win an Academy Award
Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier
First African American congressmen
Hiram Revels
Known as American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
Fredrick Douglass
Inventor of the super soaker water gun
Lonnie Johnson