Black Inventors
Who invented the three-light traffic signal?
Garrett Morgan
What year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat?
1955
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Maya Angelou
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Who created the first home security system?
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Who was the first African American student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans?
Ruby Bridges
Who was the first African American woman in space?
Dr. Mae Jemison
Who was the Harlem Renaissance poet known for The Weary Blues?
Langston Hughes
Who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal?
John Baxter Taylor Jr., 1908 Olympics
Who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
Lonnie Johnson
What landmark legislation was passed in 1964, prohibiting racial discrimination?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Toni Morrison
Who was the first African American to win the Masters Tournament in golf?
Tiger Woods, 1997
Who improved the refrigerated truck system, making it possible to transport perishable goods?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Who was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later became a U.S. congressman?
John Lewis
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel, for Gone with the Wind
What playwright wrote A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry
Who was the first African American heavyweight boxing champion?
Jack Johnson
Who was the first African American woman to receive a U.S. patent in 1885?
Sarah Goode, for a folding cabinet bed)
What was the name of the famous protest in which African Americans boycotted public transportation for over a year?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was the first African American billionaire?
Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET
Who was the jazz musician known for What a Wonderful World?
Louis Armstrong
Who was the first African American woman to win multiple Olympic gold medals in track and field?
Wilma Rudolph