African American First
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"
Who was Harriet Tubman?
In 1990, this man was elected New York City's first Black mayor.
Who is David Dinkins?
In this US city Rosa Parks spurned the famous city bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
He is considered the "Father of Negro History".
Who was Dr. Carter G. Woodson?
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
"The time is always right to do what is right"
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Who was the first Black, female Secretary of State?
Who was Condoleezza Rice?
This landmark, 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case allowed for the integration of public schools?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka?
When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme court in 1991, this man was appointed to fill his position?
Who was Justice Clarence Thomas?
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who was Booker T. Washington?
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who was Maya Angelou?
Who was the first Black attorney general of the United States?
Who is Eric Holder, Jr?
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 hair products made for Black people.
Who was Madame "CJ" Walker?
She was the first Black woman chosen as Miss America?
Who is Vanessa Williams?
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who was Muhammad Ali?
Key provisions of this federal legislation include equal employment opportunity, public accommodation, desegregation of public facilities, desegregation of education and voting rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This former slave freed himself by commandeering a confederate ship. After the civil war, he went on to serving in both his state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who was Robert Smalls?
This author of Sula and The Bluest Eye was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Maynard Jackson became the first Black mayor of what city?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
The "sit-in" movement, where Black college students would sit at whites-only lunch counters and ask to be served began where?
What was the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina?
This comedian and actor's stage name was John Elroy Stanford.
Who was Redd Foxx?