Inventors
Nigerian American professor: She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and explosives.
Who is Omowunmi Sadik
First African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games & for which sport
Who is Jesse Owens and what is track and field
Landmark Supreme Court case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What is the brown v. board of education?
He is chairman and founder of Worldwide Technology, one of the largest African American-owned businesses in America
Who is David Steward?
They fought in the civil war as the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and were officially established after the civil war by Congress. The movie Glory was made about them
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth. Her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models, was incorporated into the Global Positioning System
Gladys West
Named the "Galveston Giant" became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion
Who is Jack Johnson?
The first African American to teach at a predominantly white college
Who is Charles L. Reason?
ABC's first African American Shark Tank investor
Who is Daymond John?
They were formed in 1942-1949 more than 20,000 black men and were the first black Marine Branch served in WW2 and Vietnam
Who were the Montford Pointe Marines?
One of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console
Who is Jerry Lawson?
He is one of the greatest baseball players of all time and played for the San Francisco Giants
Who is Willie Mays? Who is Barry Bonds?
KELLY MILLER
Who is the first black man to study at John Hopkins University?
Maggie Lena Walker
Who is the first black woman to own and lead a bank in the United States?
DORIS MILLER
Who was the person who carried several wounded soldiers to safety and shot down a plane and received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor: The movie Pearl Harbor is about him
He developed the ISA bus with his partner Dennis Moeller, and he lead a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip
Who is Dr. Mark Dean
The most decorated gymnast in history, with 37 Olympic & World Championship medals and the first 6-time World All-Around Champion (2013–2015, 2018–2019, 2023)
Who is Simone Biles?
School Named after Mary Mcleod Bethune
What is Bethune-Cookman College?
The Great Migration
What is a large-scale movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities in search of better opportunities
855 women joined the war effort to address a three-year mail backlog. A movie was recently made about them
What is The Six Triple Eight?
American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States. He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil
Who is Granville T Woods?
Who is Althea Gibson?
RUBY BRIDGES
Who is the first black student at a New Orleans elementary school?
The first African American president and first African American female vice president
Who is Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
She was the highest-ranking African American female officer in the air force & department of defense: She received the Bronze Star, Presidential Unit Citation and Vietnam Service Medal
Who is General Marcelite J. Harris?