Show:
Civil Rights Leaders
Althletes
Harlem Reniassance
Scientist/Inventors
African Kings and Queens
100
Spent time in jail before converting to Islam, become a famous leader
Who is Malcolm X
100
Won four gold medals at 1936 Berlin Olympic games
Who is Jesse Owens
100
Poet and writer, wrote the poem “Mother to Son”
Who is Langston Hughes
100
Best known for many uses he devised for the peanut
Who is George Washington Carver
100
Wealthiest person in history, king of the Mali empire in West Africa
Who is King Mansa Musa
200
After escaping slavery, became a writer and an abolitionist
Who is Frederick Douglass
200
In 2017 she won her 23 grand slam at Wimbledon, defeating her sister Venus
Who is Serena Williams
200
Wrote the poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” the Black National Anthem
Who is James Weldon Johnson
200
Holds many patents including improvement on the traffic signal
Who is Garret Morgan
200
Warrior princess from Angola
Who is Queen Nzinga
300
Refused to give up her seat on the bus in the South and was arrested
Who is Rosa Parks
300
Was the first heavy weight boxing champion
Who is Jack Johnson
300
Wrote the novel, “There Eyes Were Watching God.”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
300
Pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusions
Who is Charles Drew
300
Egyptian queen and wife of King Akhenaten
Who is Queen Nefertiti
400
Initiated the Student Nonviolent Committee (sncc) “snick”
What is Ella Baker
400
Tennis player and activist
Who is Arthur Ashe
400
Known for the classics books “Native Son” and “Black Boy”
Who is Richard Wright
400
First African American female astronaut
Who is Mae Jemison
400
Boy king, tomb was discovered in 1922.
Who King Tut (Tutankhamun)
500
NAACP activist from Mississippi that fought for voting rights. Killed in front of house
Who is Medgar Evers
500
Broke Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs in 1974
Who is Hank Aaron
500
Tap dancer and actor best known for Broadway performances.
Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
500
One of NASA “human computers” help calculate formulas for space flights
What is Catherine Johnson
500
Greatest military leader and strategist of all time, used elephants in battle
Who is King Hannibal