Black Healthcare
A study was conducted on male residents of Tuskegee Alabama, between 1932 and 1972. The study was to observe the natural history of this untreated disease. As part of the study, researchers did not collect informed consent from participants. They also did not offer treatment, even after it was easily available.
The inventor of the traffic light and gas mask.
Garrett A. Morgan
Widely regarded as the GOAT of basketball, this athlete achieved the impossible by winning three consecutive NBA championships - twice.
Michael "Air" Jordan
Fawn Weaver is the founder and CEO of this company which she started to honor Nathan Green, an enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
In 1951, this African American woman was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer and treated at Johns Hopkins University, where a doctor took cells from her cervix without her knowledge. These cells were found to be unique in that they could be kept alive and would also grow indefinitely. Since that time these cells have been cultured and used in experiments ranging from determining the long-term effects of radiation to testing the live polio vaccine.
Henrietta Lacks
Name one of the 3 black women depicted in the 2016 biographical film, Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson
He won a gold medal in the 2024 Olympics for the 100 meters, becoming the first American man to win in 20 years.
Noah Lyles
Black Wall Street was the nickname for Greenwood, a historic African American community in this city and state. The area was destroyed in a racial massacre of 1921.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
He was appointed as director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank in February 1941. He also invented what would be later known as bloodmobiles, mobile donation stations that could collect the blood and refrigerate it.
Charles R. Drew
Inventor of the Super Soaker!
Lonnie Johnson
With 11 Olympic medals (the most for a U.S. gymnast) and 30 World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in history.
Simone Biles (Owens)
He became the first Black billionaire in the United States in 2001 after co-founding the first cable network with programming for a predominantly Black audience.
Robert L. Johnson
Bonus: Name the network
The first professionally trained Black nurse in the United States.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
The light bulb itself was perfected by Thomas Edison, but the innovation used to create longer-lasting light bulbs with a carbon filament came from this African American inventor.
Lewis Latimer
American football coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. Nicknamed "Prime Time" and "Coach Prime", he played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons.
Deion Sanders, Sr.
In 2005, Chinedu Echeruo founded HopStop, the pioneering travel app that helped millions of users navigate public transportation in major metropolitan areas around the world. Apple acquired HopStop in 2013 for this high price and subsequently incorporated much of HopStop’s functionality into Apple Maps.
$1 Billion
The first medical school in the United States to admit Black students.
Howard University College of Medicine (1868)
American businessman and inventor, best known for inventing the "Ice Cream scooper".
Alfred L. Cralle
As a freshman at Louisiana State University, running 10.75 seconds she broke the 100 m collegiate record at the NCAA Division I Championships andis now one of the (if not THE) fastest women in the world with a 100-meter dash of 10.71 seconds.
Sha'Carri Richardson
The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, Green-Book) was a road traveler's guidebook for African Americans. It was published annually from 1936 to 1966 which was during this era of laws that discriminated against Black people in the south.
Jim Crow