'Firsts'
The first African American Major League Baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This individual signed the Emancipation Act in 1863 to free all slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first African American to win an Academy Award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as this.
What is a U.S. senator from Illinois?
This individual wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The location of the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter.
Where is Greensboro, NC?
The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in this year, abolishing slavery.
What is 1865?
This individual established the first non-indigenous settlement of Chicago.
Who is Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable?
Before it became Black History Month, this is what the observance of Black History was called.
Negro History Week.
The place where was Malcolm X was killed.
What is Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan.
The first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
Who is Ralph Bunche?
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, African Americans were able to gain this in the United States.
What is Voting Rights?
This individual broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State.
Who is Jesse Owens?
At its height, this was the slave population in the U.S.
What is about 4 million people?
This is the year that the NAACP was founded.
What is 1909?
The first African American to become an Astronaut.
Who is Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.?
The first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
The first African American owned-and-operated newspaper.
What is the Freedom’s Journal?
The only African American among the original NAACP executives.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This individual's proposal, that Congress considered civil rights legislation, culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The first African American woman named to the cabinet of a U.S. President.
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris?
The first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent for inventing this common household item.
What is the Folding Bed?
Considered the "Father of Black History".
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This distinguished gospel singer performed at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
Who is Mahalia Jackson?