Quotes
Who said “I never ran my train of a track and never lost a passenger”?
Harriet Tubman
Who wrote the speech “Aint I a Woman”?
Sojourner Truth
Who invented the Gas Mask?
Who is the first African American woman to win a medal in the Winter Olympics?
Erin Jackson
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Charlie Sifford
Who said “The time is always right to do what is right?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Which major poet of the Harlem Renaissance wrote “Mother to Son”?
Langston Hughes
Who invented Potato Chips?
George Speck
Who was the first African American male tennis champion?
Authur Ashe
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who wrote "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
Who is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history?
Amanda Gorman
Who invented the Folding Chair?
Nathaniel Alexander
Serena Wiliams won how many Grand slams?
23
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Muhammed Ali
Who wrote Roots: the Saga of an American Family?
Alex Haley
Who was the first African American to receive a patent?
Thomas L. Jennings
Who was the first African American to enter the NBA in 1950?
Earl Lloyd
Who was the first developer of the blood bank?
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Morgan Freeman
Who wrote their first novel in 1970 titled the Bluest Eye?
Toni Morrison
Who invented the Traffic Light?
Garrett Morgan
Who broke barriers entering the Major Baseball League in 1947?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American female dentist?
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins