Black History 1
I became the 44th President of America
Barack Obama
This person was given the name "Moses."
Harriet Tubman
First Black President of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Africans pioneered basic arithmetic these many years ago
25,000 years
The first African American woman in Forbes magazine's World's Richest people list?
Oprah Winfrey
The first African-American Major League Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
This person is the first basketball player to help open a middle school
Lebron James
He was the first Black person to be named Time Person of the Year.
Martin Luther King Jr
This African country was founded in 1822 by the "American Colonization Society" in an attempt to realize the dream of many (largely white) Americans to "return" blacks to Africa, and thus end racial problems in the United States, under a scheme called "colonization"
Libera
Consider being the greatest basketball player in history with the famous number "23".
Michael Jordan
Franklin D. Raines became the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 1999. What was the company?
Fannie Mae
In what decade did the United Nations pass Resolution 1761, condemning the South African practice of apartheid - a form of enforced racial segregation and "separate development" that existed, by law, in S. Africa until the 1990s?
the 1960s
The African American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist
Malcolm X
He won the National Book Award and is now writing the next Superman movie.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
This woman is New York's first black Attorney General.
Letitia James
She wrote the best-selling memoir, " I know why the caged bird sings."
Maya Angelou
Who is the Leader of the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 to 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr
First African American to win the Miss American title.
Vanessa Williams
The first African American to integrate into an all-white school in the south.
Ruby Bridges
This woman was elected as the first ever president of Barbado's?
Sandra Mason
This famous Black celebrity served as an international spy during World War II
Josephine Baker
The child of Ex-slaves who created hair products and died a Millionaire.
Madame C J Walker
Who invented peanut butter?
George Washington Carver
First acknowledged woman of color, to join the British royal family.
Megan Markle
Black History Month is celebrated in February to coincide with the birthdays of these two historic figures.
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass