Innovators/Nicknames
Mathematician, astronomer, published almanacs; 1st wooden clock
Benjamin Banneker
Women's Tennis star; considered to be the Greatest of All Time
Serena Williams
Artistic literary movement started in 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
Granted citizenship rights to Blacks in 1868
14th Amendment
NBAs all-time leading scorer
LeBron James
Agricultural chemist; founded over 300 uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes
George Washington Carver
1st Black Women elected Attorney General & US Senator of California
Kamala Harris
Wrote "Souls of Black Folk" (1903)
W.E.B DuBois
Name given to laws requiring separate use of facilities by Blacks and Whites
Jim Crow
World Fastest Man; Holds 3 world records in men's sprinting
Usain Bolt
Historian; aka Father of Black History
Carter G Woodson
1st Black woman to lecture against slavery. Famous speech "Aint I a Woman"
Sojourner Truth
Wrote " The Miseducation of the Negro"
Carter G Woodson
Largest Civil Rights organization (co-founded by 6 Blacks and 47 Whites in NY in 1909)
NAACP
BLM Stands for what?
Black Lives Matter
Freedom Fighter; aka black prophet
Nat Turner
1st Black Women to run for president (1972)
Shirley Chisolm
Wrote the play " A Raisin in the Sun"
Lorraine Hansberry
City where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
Montgomery, Alabama
1st Black speaker of the house (2025)
Hakeem Jefferies
Charles Drew
Wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
Wrote the "Temple of My Familiar"
Alice Walker
Year in which Supreme court declared segregated schools unconstitutional
1954
First Black Women appointed US Supreme Court Judge
Ketanji Brown Jackson