Inventors & Pioneers
She was the first Black female millionaire with her own revolutionary Black hair products.
Who is Madame C. J. Walker?
He is the first Black golf champion to tour the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
He is the first Black person to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This Black man was a prominent minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
She is ranked as the 2nd best-selling female artist of the 21st century, with record sales of more than 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
This famous inventor developed peanut better and 400 plant products.
Who is George Washington Carver?
He said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This author became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
He was the first Black man to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is General Colin Powell?
She is the first Black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show in America.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This Black woman invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.
Who is Dr. Patricia E. Bath?
She was the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
She said, "Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This famous Black woman refused to give up her seat to a White man which helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Which famous musician said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know"?
Who is Louis Armstrong?
She was known as a pioneer in aviation and was the first Black woman to obtain a pilot's license and fly a plane.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. He is credited with making the NBA internationally known.
Who is Michael Jordan?
They were the first Black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This Supreme Court decision said that segregated public schools were not really equal and should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She is the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
This famous inventor invented the traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
He is the first player in NFL history to win both Rookie of the Year and the MVP Award in the same season (1957).
Who is Jim Brown?
She worked to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
She was the first Black woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for U.S. President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He is the founder of the Motown Record Corporation.
Who is Berry Gordy?