SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS
AUTHORS/POETS
THE FIRST
CIVIL RIGHTS
BH FACTS
100

THE FIRS BLACK RENOWNED SCIENTIST FOR USING PEANUTS

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

100

FIRST BLACK AMERICAN POETS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

LANGSTON HUGHES 

100
THE FIRST BLACK QB IN NFL HISTORY

WHO IS DOUG WILLIAMS?

100

LEADER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN 1964

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

100

FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WIN MISS AMERICA

VANESSA WILLIAMS

200

FAMOUS SURGEON WHO SEPARATED CONJOINED TWINS

BEN CARSON

200

FIRST BLACK FEMALE POET TO SPEAK AT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S INAUGURATION

MAYA ANGELOU

200

THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE SUPREME JUSTICE

WHO IS KETANJI BROWN JACKSON?

200

ORGANIZER OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

HARRIET TUBMAN


200

FIRST BLACK JUSTICE ON THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTED IN 1967

THURGOOD MARSHALL

300

FAMOUS BLACK MALE WHO DESIGNED WASHINGTON, DC

BENJAMIN BANNEKER

300

THE YOUNGEST POET TO PRESENT AN INAUGURAL READING IN 2021, 'THE HILL WE CLIMB'

AMANDA GORMAN

300

THE FIRST DUO FEMALE TENNIS PLAYERS TO WIN WIMBLEDON

VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS

300

WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

RALPH BUNCHE AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

300

INVENTED THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL

GARRETT MORGAN


400

BLACK PHYSICIAN WHO DEVELOPED THE BLOOD BANK

CHARLES DREW

400

BLACK FEMALE POET WHOSE WORK HAS CHANGED THE WORLD

MAYA ANGELOU

400

THE FIRST BLACK MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER

JACKIE ROBINSON

400

THE DOCUMENT THAT FREED SLAVE

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

400

BEGAN AS A COMEDIAN AND STARRED IN THE FIRST BLACK FAMILY TV SHOW IN 1984

BILL COSBY AND THE COSBY SHOW

500

FIRST TO PERFORM OPEN HEART SURGERY 

DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS

500

FIRST BLACK WOMAN IN 2002 TO WIN AN OSCAR

HALLE BERRY

500

THE FIRST BLACK MR. OLYMPIA

CHRIS DICKERSON

500

'GOOD TROUBLE' IS A FAMOUS QUOTE SPOKEN BY A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

JOHN LEWIS

500

FIRST PERFORMED WITH HIS BROTHERS AT THE AGE OF 5 AND A SUPERSTAR AT AGE 21

MICHAEL JACKSON