Black Inventors
She made improvements to the ironing board.
Who is Sarah Boone?
The first Black president in the US.
Who was Barack Obama?
She wrote the best selling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Who is Maya Angelou?
He was the man behind Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
He was the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in this modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
She invented the first home security system.
Who is Marie Van Britton Brown?
The first black (women) to serve on the House of Representatives.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He wrote the autobiography "Malcolm X."
Who is Alex Haley?
This was the war that helped put an end to slavery in the United States of America.
What is the civil war?
She is an American Professional Tennis Player that has won 23 Grand Slam Singles titles.
Who is Serena Williams?
He developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The first African-American senator.
Who was Hiram Rhodes?
He wrote the novel "The Long Way Down."
Who is Jason Reynolds?
This is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
He spent his entire 20 year basketball career with the LA Lakers.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
He invented the three-position-traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
The first African-American millionaire.
Who was Madame CJ Walker?
Who is Christopher Paul Curtis?
Africans were packed on ships and were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. This triangular trade was referred to as...
What is the Middle Passage?
Who is Michael Jordan?
Patricia Bath invented this.
What is a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco?
The first black lawyer in the United States of America
Who was Macon Bolling Allen (1844)?
He wrote the play "Fences."
Who is August Wilson?
He wrote the Black (Negro) National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
He was an American Professional tennis play that won three Grand Slam singles titles.
Who is Arthur Ashe?