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This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature. (Hint: her resume includes “Sula” and “The Bluest Eye”)
Who is Toni Morrison?
The first Black female psychologist.
Who is Inez Beverly Prosser?
This activist said the famous quote, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
Who is John Lewis?
Founded in 1908, this is the first Black female-led sorority.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority?
This is the first African-American female millionaire who became a millionaire because of her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The first Black male psychologist.
Who is Francis Cecil Sumner?
Before Rosa Parks, she was the first African American woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The location of the first "sit-in protest" at a segregated lunch counter.
What is Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina?
The first African-American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The creator of the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity, an intelligence test specifically oriented towards Black experience, language, and culture.
Who is Robert Lee Williams II?
This woman started the Me Too movement.
Who is Tarana Burke?
The first African American Senator of the United States.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The first Black artist to win a Grammy.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Her psychological research in racial identity aided Congress in Brown v.s. The Board of Education case.
Who is Mamie Phipps Clark?
He freed himself and 17 other Black people from slavery by commandeering a ship. He was a maritime pilot and went on to be voted into congress for South Carolina.
Who is Robert Smalls?
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
The location of the first-ever HBCU founded.
What is Pennsylvania?
Cheney University, founded by Richard Humphreys in February 1837.
This 14-year-old Black child was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
This woman held leadership positions in the National Council of Negro Women, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP).
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
This is the first Black female physician in the United States who wrote one of the first books bringing awareness to Black maternal health entitled A Book of Medical Discourses, In Two Parts.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?