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The most decorated gymnast in history with 34 medals across the world championships and Olympics.
Who is Simone Biles?
In this 1955 protest sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest, Black residents of Alabama refused to ride city buses, launching the first large‑scale demonstration against segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This leader became the first woman and first Black American to serve as Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
His 2018 win for “Get Out” made him the first Black screenwriter to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Who is Jordan Peele?
The NAACP’s legal team played a key role in this 1954 Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This golfer became the first African American to win the Masters Tournament in 1997 and has 15 major championship titles.
Who is Tiger Woods?
In 1921, this massacre devastated the Greenwood District—known as “Black Wall Street”—in this Oklahoma city.
What is the Tulsa Massacre?
Before joining the Supreme Court in 1967 and becoming the first Black Supreme Court Justice, this civil rights lawyer argued and won the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
In 2025, this singer became the first Black woman to top the Billboard Country Albums chart.
Who is Beyoncé?
This civil rights leader helped organize the March on Washington, where he delivered one of U.S. history’s most iconic speeches calling for racial equality.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This NBA team was home to Michael Jordan during all six of his championship victories, forming one of the most iconic dynasties in basketball history.
What is the Chicago Bulls?
President Lincoln issued this declaration that proclaimed enslaved people in Confederate states to be free, reshaping the course of the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This actress was the first Black women to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Monster's Ball".
Who is Halle Berry?
This Kendrick Lamar song, released during his highly publicized rap feud with Drake, went on to win Song of the Year at the 2025 Grammys.
What is "Not Like Us"?
This civil rights leader’s philosophy of Black empowerment and self-defense heavily influenced the founding principles of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Malcolm X?
In 1957, she became the first Black player to win a Wimbledon singles title.
Who is Althea Givson?
In 1957, this group of African American students became a national symbol of courage when they attempted to desegregate a High School in Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
In 1992, this astronaut became the first Black woman to travel into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
Famous jazz pianist that was also named the first black American to host a TV show?
Who is Nat King Cole
This North Carolina city became a landmark of civil rights history in 1960 when four Black college students staged a sit‑in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter.
What is Greensboro?
Wilma Rudolph overcame polio as a child and went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics in this sport.
What is track and field?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision (later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education) upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of ‘separate but equal'.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He became the first African American billionaire in 2001 after building BET (Black Entertainment Television).
Who is Robert L Johnson?
This South Sudan–born super model, became the second Black woman after Naomi Campbell to open a Prada runway show.
Who is Anok Yai?
The 1955 murder of this 14‑year‑old boy in Mississippi, and his mother’s decision to display his brutalized body in an open casket, catalyzed the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?