Athletes
Who was the first African American to play major league baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first black doctor?
James McCune Smith
Who was considered the wealthiest African-American businesswoman and wealthiest self-made woman in America?
Madame CJ Walker
Who’s considered the first black actor?
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry known as Stepin Fetchit was an American vaudevillian, comedian and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent.
Who founded a weekly newspaper, The Chicago Defender?
Robert Abbott
Before dying which African American boxer had 37 K.O wins?
Muhammad Ali
Who was the first doctor to perform open heart surgery?
The first successful American heart surgery was performed by Dr.Daniel Hale Williamson in 1893
Who was an inventor and engineer who holds more than 120 patents and the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie G Johnson
What musician was the first to have a hit song?
Tommy Edwards was the first black musician on the Hot 100’’s to hit No 1
Who is the poetic activist who earned three Grammy awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Maya Angelou
Which NBA All-Star played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordan
Who was the first African American doctor to graduate?
James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree in which he earned in 1837 to make him the first trained African american doctor
Who is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, or the BET network?
Robert L Johnson
Who was the first black actor to win an Oscar ?
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award in 1939
Who was a pivotal player in jazz music’s metamorphosis into swing, the evolutionary 1930s, style
Duke Ellington