Science and Exploration
George Washington Carver's laboratory was located.
What is Tuskegee Institute, Alabama?
This was the first Black National League baseball player to hit 600 home runs.
Who was Willie Mays?
This author who grew up with a white Jewish mother and an African American father wrote Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly and Black Betty.
Who is Walter Mosley?
Harry Truman ended it in the Army in 1948; the Supreme Court ended it in public schools in 1954.
What is segregation?
This African American invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum power, and more.
Who is George Washington Carver?
These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This athlete was a running back for the Chicago Bears. He ran 1,852 yards to help the team reach the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.
Who is Walter Payton?
Marian Anderson was an outstanding singer, however she was also appointed to the position by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
What is US Delegate to the United States?
In September 2004 she made history on TV by giving a brand new car to each member of her audience.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
His inventive spirit would lead him to be called the "first African American inventor", he invented the first Farmers' Almanac.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
Lewis Latimer worked with this famous inventor in the development of electric light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with this number home runs.
What is 755?
This novelist became the fist black to be honored with the Nobel Peace prize in 1993. She is a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, which became a motion picture.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This "conductor" usually carried a gun, not a whistle.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This African American patented the fire extinguisher in 1872.
Who is Thomas J. Martin?
This vegetable was used by George Washington Carver to develop postage stamp glue?
This former two-time heavyweight boxing champion won a Gold Medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and then went on to become a minister.
Who is George Foreman?
Grover Washington Jr. plays this musical instrument.
What is a saxophone?
Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war".
Who was John Brown?
This African American invented the super soaker water gun, the #1 selling toy in America in 1991.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson?
This famous Black American female invented the ironing board.
Who was Sarah Boone?
He holds the record for the most points scored in a single basketball game (100).
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
This novelist is best known for the play "A Raisin in the Sun."
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal.
What is Tuskegee Instittute?
Did you know that in 1971 this inventor created what is now one of the most popularly used devices in American history, the cell phone?
Who is Henry Sampson?