Notable Figures
HBCUs
Inventors
Famous Firsts
Scholars
100
This artist painted murals in the Rising Up series. They depicted the mutiny on the Amistad.
Who is Hale Woodruff
100
Home of the Mighty Panthers, Miss Kourtney is a graduate of this university.
What is Clark Atlanta University.
100
This botanical researcher came up with hundreds of uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver
100
Before she was known as Aunt Teri in the movie Soul Food, this actress was the first African American woman to be crowned as Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams
100
The school that would later become Bethune-Cookman University was founded by this educator.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
200
Who is best known for writing the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God?”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
200
As graduates of this institution, Lance Gross and Taraji P. Henson served as Grand Marshals in the homecoming parade.
What is Howard University
200
As the first African American woman to become a millionaire, this inventor made sure women had luscious locks thanks to her hair growing lotion.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
200
He was the first African American to win the Masters Golf Tournament.
Who is Tiger Woods
200
W.E.B. DuBois referred to the African American intellectual elite as this.
What is the Talented Tenth
300
This doctor successfully separated conjoined twins.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson
300
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. graduated from this college in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is Morehouse College
300
Inventor of the gas mask and stop light
Who is Garrett Morgan
300
She was the first African American to win the Best Actress award at the Oscars.
Who is Halle Berry
300
An avenue in Northeast DC is named for this woman who established the National Training School for Women and Girls.
Who is Nannie Helen Burroughs
400
This mathematician was a surveyor on the team that planned the boundaries of Washington, DC. There is a DC Public School named after him.
Who is Benjamin Banneker
400
Four freshmen from this HBCU participated in the first “sit-in” at a segregated lunch counter.
What is North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
400
He created an important part of the light bulb—the carbon filament.
Who is Lewis Latimer
400
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
400
Cedar Hill is the Anacostia home owned by this orator and former slave turned abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass
500
This group of students faced tremendous opposition (including violence) when they were brought into an Arkansas high school to desegregate it.
What is the Little Rock Nine
500
This all women's college has received sizeable donations from Oprah Winfrey as well as Bill and Camille Cosby
What is Spelman College
500
He developed a technique for the long-term preservation of blood plasma.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
500
This DC Public school was America’s first public high school for Black students.
What is Dunbar High School
500
This Up From Slavery author also worked at Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington
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