Black History Women
Enslaved woman who bore Thomas Jefferson four children
Who is Sallie Hemings?
First African American Woman President of Spelman College?
Who is Johnetta Cole?
She was the second black woman crowned Miss America
Who is Suzette Charles?
(Suzette Charles (born Suzette De Gaetano), the second African American woman to hold the crown of Miss America, was born in Mays Landing, New Jersey)
In 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
Who is Pres. Barack Obama?
"The time is always right to do what is _________"
What is Right?
Her Autobiography is entitled "I know Why the Caged Bird Sing"
Who is Maya Angelou
W.E.B. Dubois received his Ph.D. here
What is Harvard University?
Sidney Poitier's film debut
What is No Way Out?
(Having already found some success in the theater, Poitier made his screen debut with “No Way Out” in 1950. He would become the first Black man to be nominated for the Academy Award for lead actor with 1958's “The Defiant Ones.”)
Honored with the Peace Prize for his opposition to South Africa's brutal apartheid regime.
Who is Bishop Desmund Tutu?
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only __________ can do that."
What is Love?
Author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This State has the most black institutions of higher learning
What is Georgia?
(Georgia is home to ten HBCUs: Albany State University, Clark Atlanta University, Fort Valley State University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Morris Brown College, Paine College, Savannah State University, and Spelman College.)
His is the voice of Star Wars Movies Darth Vader
Who is James Earl Jones?
American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine
Who is Ralph Bunch?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice ___________."
What is everywhere?
First Black Woman to have a full length novel published
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
("Iola Leroy" in 1892)
Dr. Charles Drew taught here
What is Howard University?
The Star of the 1977 Movie "The Greatest"
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison?
(At Howard she changed her name from Chloe to Toni (having taken the name Anthony on becoming a Roman Catholic at the age of 12), apparently because she found that people constantly mispronounced “Chloe”. However she later regretted the name change, saying in 1992: “I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford.)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that _______"
What is matter?
First Black woman to be recognized as an award winning composer
Who is Florence Price?
First African American to graduate from College was also the third African -American to graduate from an American college
Who is John Russwurm?
(Bowdoin College's first African American graduate)
Hollywood's first Black Millionaire was also the first Black actor to receive featured screen credit in a film
Who is Stepin Fetchit?
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry became the first Black actor to earn $1 million. Perry's film career slowed after 1939 and nearly stopped altogether after 1953.
He was awarded the the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."
Who is Kofi Annan?
(The Nobel Committee "also recognized his commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV virus in Africa and his declared opposition to international terrorism)
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for _____"
What is others?