African American First
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The nickname given given to Edward Kennedy Ellington, born and raised in Washington D.C., who was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous (being the name for which it was named) jazz orchestra appearing at the Cotton Club in Harlem from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Who is "Duke" Ellington?
The two current African-American Supreme Court Justices
Who are Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Born Araminta Ross (c. March 1822, she was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, she made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. He was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, as well as, a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
Who is Malcolm X or Malcolm Little?
He is known as America's first African-American major league baseball player.
Who is Jack Roosevelt Robinson aka Jackie Robinson?
Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 18, 1931, this American novelist wrote The Bluest Eye, which was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Born April 5, 1856, he was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, he was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. He was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Born Isabella Baumfree (c. 1797), this American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance renamed herself in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying to the hope that was in her."
Who is Sojourner Truth
At one time this female was known as the richest African-American of the 21st century.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
The first African-American major league baseball player played for this team.
What is Brooklyn Dodgers
He was an American writer, civil rights activist, and a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. He established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of Black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", as the Black National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson
Born February 1817 or Februaury 1818, he was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. His second book written was My Bondage and My Freedom.
Who is Frederick Douglass
Who is Marcus (Mosiah) Garvey or just Marcus Garvey
He played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976 and considered one of the greatest baseball players in history. He spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves. He was nicknamed "Hammer".
Who is Henry Louis Aaron aka Hank Aaron
She is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992
Who is Mae Jemison
Born in West Africa (c. 1753), she was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. She was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. He publication in London of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral were praised by George Washington.
Who is Phillis Wheatley
He was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. He was the founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916 and has been called the "Father of Black History."
Who is Carter G. Woodson
One of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States during the early 1900s was located in this city and state`
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma
Born on February 23, 1868 and lived until August 27, 1963, he was an American sociologist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist who wrote The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches a 1903 work of American literature, which became the cornerstone for African-American literature.
Who is William Edward Burghardt Du Bois aka W. E. B. Du Bois
An African-American boxer nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", at the height of the Jim Crow era, he became the first Black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915)
Who is John Arthur Johnson aka Jack Johnson
born February 27, 1897, this African-American contralto was not allowed to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). With the aid of President and First Lady Roosevelt, this American contralto performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 on the Lincoln Memorial steps in the capital. She became the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera on January 7, 1955.
Who is Marian Anderson
An enslaved African-American preacher who lead a rebellion, known as the Southampton Insurrection, making it the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history.
Who is Nat Turner
The name (nickname) given to the place where the wealthiest African-Americans lived in the early 1900s
What is Black Wall Street or the Greenwood District
She was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist who founded the National Counsel of Negro Women in 1935, and established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune or Mary Bethune