African American First
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
This civil rights leader said "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
He was the 1st African American elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
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 after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This was the year the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
This notorious female conductor of the underground railroad said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama.
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
She is ranked as one of the best-selling female artist of the 21st century with over 200 million records sold.
Who is Ms. Wright (JK) - Who is Beyonce Knowles?
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
She is a famous poet who said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This organization works to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic process.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This fourteen year old black boy was lynched for being falsely accused of "making a pass" at a white woman.
Who is Emmet Till?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison?
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Who 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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
She became the first recorded female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
He inspired the famous actor Morgan Freeman who said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
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?
He made agricultural advancements and 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?