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She was the first African-American and woman to bring home four Olympic gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single game along with a bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Who is Simone Biles?
This African American artist made Grammy history as the first female solo winner to take home Best Rap Album.
Who is Cardi B?
She was the first woman of color attorney general in California and is the second woman to be elected a U.S. senator.
Who is Kamala Harris?
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what right did African-Americans gain in the United States?
What are Voting rights.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).
Who was the first African American female to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater.
Who is Misty Copeland?
In 2016, she became the first African American to earn an Olympic gold medal in individual swimming.
Who is Simone Manuel?
This African American artist won Song of the Year, marking the first time that a rap song has won the award in the 61-year history of the Grammys.
Who is Childish Gambino (Donald Glover)?
In 2016, President Obama appointed the first woman and African American to lead the Library of Congress.
Who is Carla Hayden?
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who became the first artist in history to have four of the top 20 best selling albums in a single year in the United States.
Who is Michael Jackson.
In this year, Colin Kaepernick took a kneel during the national anthem in protest of unjust police killings of black Americans.
What is 2016?
In 2001, they became the first African-American billionaire.
Who is Robert Johnson?
He is the owner of Black Entertainment Television.
On this year, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington, D.C., a mecca housing artifacts and art chronicling the struggles and triumphs of blacks in the U.S.
What is 2016?
This African American man developed the Black Power movement while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC). After being targeted by the FBI as the man most likely to succeed Malcolm X in the Black Panther Party, he fled to Africa.
Who is Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)?
He painted President Obama's official portrait that is currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
Kehinde is a New York City-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans.
He was the first African-American Grandmaster in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. He has a popular chess instruction app, has taught celebrities such as Jay Z and Will Smith, and has partnered with several organizations to bring chess to students in low-income neighborhoods.
Who is Maurice Ashley?
In 2012, she was the first black woman to win the Best Director award at Sundance Film Festival. She was also the first African-American woman to lead a $100 million, live-action feature film "A Wrinkle in Time".
Who is Ava DuVernay?
In 2001, she became the first African-American president of an Ivy League university, and was also Brown University’s first female president.
Who is Ruth Simmons?
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Who is W.E.B Du Bios.
Founded in Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. The only African American among the organization's executives, Du Bois was made director of publications and research and in 1910 established the official journal of the NAACP, The Cris.
This African-American women never knew that her work at a U.S. Navy base in Virginia back in the 1950s and ’60s would play a pivotal role in creating GPS technology that is now incorporated into cell phones, cars, and social media.
Who is Dr. Gladys West?
For 42 years, the 87-year-old mathematician worked with a team of engineers that developed the Geographical Positioning System, or GPS, before retiring in 1998.
In 1996, this African-American woman became the first player to be signed by the WNBA.
Who is Sheryl Swoopes?
She is the first African-American to lead programming at a major broadcast network and helped develop many of ABC’s most successful shows including “Scandal”, “Quantico”, and “How to Get Away With Murder”.
Who is Channing Dungey?
This person was one of the first scholars to study African-American history and was the founder of Journal of Negro History and has been cited as the father of Black History. In Feb 1926, he launched the celebration of “Negro History Week”, the precursor of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This African American male was a well known adviser for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Due to his sexuality, he was not allowed to be on the front lines of the movement with Dr. King.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement in 1941 to press for an end to discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides and helped to strengthen Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership, teaching King about nonviolence.
Who 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.
He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.