Famous Achievements
When was the first Black president inaugurated?
January 2009
What was the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that deemed racial segregation in schools unconstitutional?
Brown vs Board of Education
This 2018 Marvel film became the first superhero movie nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Black Panther
Which animated film featured the first Black Spider-Man?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Who was nicknamed “the human computer” at NASA in the 60s?
Hint: Think hidden figures
Katherine Johnson
Who was the first Black astronaut to travel to space?
Guion Bluford
What protest involved thousands of people marching in Washington for civil rights and economic equality?
The March on Washington
Which famous actress has an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)?
Whoopi Goldberg
Which Disney Channel show did Zendaya make her acting debut in?
Shake It Up
Which HBCU was the first to have an engineering program?
Howard University
Who was the first Black Woman to be elected to the U.S. congress?
Shirley Chisholm
What movement, beginning in 2013, aims to raise awareness of police violence against African American people in the U.S.?
Black Lives Matter
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Ralph Johnson Bunche
Who was the first Black woman to headline Coachella (2018)?
Beyoncé
Who was the chemist that developed an injectable treatment for leprosy
Alice Ball
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer prize for what genre of writing?
Poetry
What year was Martin Luther King Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday?
1986
This actress became the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in Monster’s Ball.
Halle Berry
Who was the first African American model to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine?
Tyra Banks
What is the name of the first all-Black medical school?
Meharry Medical School
What was the name of the first Black-owned newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom’s Journal
What cultural movement in the 1920s celebrated African American art, music, and literature?
The Harlem Renaissance
What art and media style was created to reimagine African American life in a joyful and prosperous lens?
Afrofuturism
Virgil Abloh was best known for being the artistic director of which brand?
Louis Vuitton
Who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D in Computer Science
Clarence Ellis