African Americans in Sports
Who was the first African American to win a NCAA tennis Championship?
Arthur Ashe
Who is an Actor, Rapper, and Director that also played in all Fridays the Movie?
Ice Cube
Who was the 2nd African American Women to serve as the Mayor of Atlanta
Kisha Lance Bottoms
Which professional basketball player used his voice to fight for the Black Lives Matter and infamously said “When your black it’s not a movement, it’s a lifestyle”
Leborn James
Which american business woman, producer, and philanthropist graduated from TSU and became the first Black woman to anchor a nightly news program in Nashville at the age of 19 while attending TSU.
Oprah Winfrey
Who were the First Black Football Players in the NFL?
Fritz Pollard & Bobby Marshall
Who was the First Black Actor to Headline a Marvel film?
Chadwick Boseman
Which famous first lady launched the “let girls learn” program in 2015 to help young girls around the world go to school and graduate
Michelle Obama
Who came to TSU homecoming in 2019 that has a homeboy name Parlay
Desi Banks
What year was TSU Founded on
1912
Who was the first Black Golfer in PGA?
Charlie Sifford
Who is known as the first Black movie star?
Lincoln Perry
Who is 1 out of 2 African American women in the nation to hold a PhD-CPA-JD
Glenda Baskin Glover
What is the name of the company that has an instagram where they tell black authentic stories
HBCUPulse
Who named a street after John Ayers Merritt that we now know as John A Merritt Blvd
Jimmy Carter
Who was the First Black Coach in the NBA?
Bill Russell
Who did Forbes list as the highest paid man in entertainment?
Tyler Perry
Who was the first African American Senator of Georgia for the United States
Raphael Warnack
Who was the first black woman to headline coachella and perform with an HBCU marching band in that same performance
Beyonce
Who did AOB (band) first play for at the White House
Obama Admin
Who broke the color barrier in sports?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first black superhero in a movie?
Robert Townsend’s (The meteor man)
Who signed the patient protection and affordable care act into law? This law was intended to assist low income families and provide affordable health insurance
Barack Obama
Who created the “Black Girl Magic” Movement?
Cashawn Thompson
Who appointed a committee for the Tennessee State University Honors College
Dr. Davis