African American First
Major league baseball player in the 20th Century
Jackie Robinson
"When they go low, we go high"
Michelle Obama
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated
Brown v. Board of Education
This woman's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
In 2023, this artist became the first Black woman to win the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic album
Beyonce Knowles
Golf Masters Tournament champion
Tiger Woods
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Harriet Tubman
First Black woman to be elected to the US Senate
Carol Moseley Braun
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
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He is the first Black director of a Marvel film. His most recent film broke the Oscars' all-time nomination record.
Ryan Coogler
First African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
Booker T. Washington
"The time is always right to do what is right"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
First African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
Shirley Chisholm
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
Malcolm X
With 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Champion medals, she is the most decorated gymnast in history
Simone Biles
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Toni Morrison
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Maya Angelou
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as facilities were equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Black students who started attending Central High School in 1957 were known as this
The Little Rock Nine
This rapper won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2018, the first non-classical or jazz artist to win
Kendrick Lamar
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Colin Powell
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly"
Langston Hughes
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Four college students took a stand in this North Carolina city when they refused to leave a lunch counter without being served
Greensboro
At age 14 she became the youngest executive producer in Hollywood for her movie Little
Marsai Martin