We Were First
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour the PGA?
Who is Tiger Woods
Name the tallest living animal in Africa.
What is a giraffe?
This was the first African American to travel to space.
Who is Guy Bluford?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
He was the first black billionaire.
Who is Robert Johnson?
This is the National African American Anthem.
What s Lift Every Voice and Sing?
Name the document that Lincoln signed to free slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
First person to integrate school.
What is Ruby Bridges?
She is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century and has a daughter name Blue Ivy.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What war was fought in America to end slavery? (HINT: a popular superhero movie has the same name)
What is the Civil War?
He was elected president in 2008 and severed two terms.
Who is Barack Obama?
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
He was the first Chess Grandmaster.
Who is Maurice Ashley?
Name for NAACP.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
He was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
She was the first licensed pilot.
Who is Bessie Coleman? 1921
She said, " I never run my train off the track and I have never lost a passenger.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
He was a historical author and a famous abolitionist during slavery and civil war.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
How many slaves did Harriett Tubman lead to freedom.
What is 300?
He made inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990.
Who is George Washington Carver?