Black Scientists
Who was the first African American woman to go to space?
Mae C. Jemison
Which social activist has the middle name C.J.?
Madame C.J. Walker
Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
Which black athlete was the first player in NBA history to record 200 steals and 100 blocked shots in a season?
Micheal Jordan
Which Black Politician is Vice President under Joe Biden?
Kamala Harris
Which American Astrophysicist was born in 1958?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Which black activists wrote the book A Century of Negro Migration (1918)?
Carter G. Woodson
Who invented the 3-way traffic light?
Which black athlete is considered the most fastest man in world?
Usain Bolt
Which Black Figure has a day in honor of him every third Monday of January?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which African American scientist is known as the "Soybean Chemist?"
Percy Lavon Julian
Which black activist became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Julian Bond
Who invented the the evaporate air conditioner?
Lewis Howard Latimer
Who was the first African American to play in an NBA game?
Earl Lloyd
Which Black figure is called "the mother of the civil rights movement?"
Rosa Parks
Which American Chemist is widely known as a pioneer of polymer chemistry?
Walter Lincoln Hawkins
Which black activist inspired Rosa Parks?
Ella Baker (Rosa Parks was an attendee at one of Ella's leadership conferences, and was inspired by what she saw there.)
Who innovated mobile refrigeration technology?
Frederic McKinley Jones
Which black athlete was the tenth female gymnast and first American female gymnast to win a World medal on every event?
Simone Biles
Who was the first African Americans President of the United States?
Barack Obama
Which African American scientist discovered variety uses for peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Who was first African American to anchor a local news program in Washington, D.C.?
Max Robinson
Who invented the video home security system?
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Which black athlete was the first player to win three WNBA championships with three different teams?
Which Black figure has the last name Douglass?