WHO AM I
As a child he was forced to copy the Constitution and it piqued his interest in law leading him to being the first Black Supreme Court Justice from 1967 to 1991
Who is Thurgood Marshall
The first Black owned television station in the US began broadcasting in 1975 from where
What is Detroit
She ran the YMCA in Harlem and the National Council of Negro Women for twenty years, worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King on several campaigns and initiatives and was a Civil rights and Women's Rights activist
Who is Dorothy Height
This party initiated the W.I.C. program, free school lunch, breakfast and dental care programs for low-income children in the United States
What is The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
"We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them."
Who is Tupac Shakur
In 1957, a group of students called this integrated Central High School with the assistance of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the protection of Federal Troops
Who were the Little Rock Nine
This artist secretly sang on Jay Z's hit single 'Girls, Girls, Girls' and remains uncredited
Who is Michael Jackson
She was discovered on the Harlem nightclub scene and was considered one of the best and most influential jazz vocalists of all time, her legacy still influences jazz and many other genres to this day
Who is Billie Holiday
Mark E. Dean, American computer engineer, is the inventor of this
What is the personal computer
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
Who is Malcolm X
He was one of the planners of what is now Washington, DC
Who is Benjamin Banneker
My father was a minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
She was known as "the Moses" of her people
Who is Harriet Tubman
Bessie Coleman was the first Black female
What is aviator
"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."
Who is Nelson Mandela
She became an activist after being forcibly removed from a train in 1884 because she refused to leave her first-class seat and move to the back; leading to her later forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and later co-founding the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells
Surya Bonaly originally trained as a gymnast but switched to what sport at the age of eleven
What is figure skating
She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was the first African American to win an Academy Award when she won an Oscar in Gone with the Wind
Who is Hattie McDaniel
Thomas L. Jennings was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S. in 1821 for an early method of this type of cleaning
What is dry cleaning
Who is Dr. Huey P. Newton
I was the first Black person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950
Who is Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
Aretha Franklin is the first woman ever to be entered into this in 1987
What is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Violet Palmer was the first woman to officiate a major professional men's sport in this league
What is National Basketball Association (NBA)
The first African American rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize
Who is Kendrick Lamar
"I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground."
Who is Madame C.J. Walker