African Am First Culture
This person is the first black male Oscar winner.
Sidney Poitier 1963
She is the first African American woman to compete on the world tennis tour.
Who is Althea Gibson?
He is the first African American Explorer, North Pole in 1909.
Who is Matthew Henson?
This African African American (former slave) founded the North Star journal in 1847, who argued that the antislavery movement must be led by Black people. Hint: his initials are FD
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Who is the developer of the blood bank?
Who is Charles Drew?
This person is the first black female actress Oscar winner.
Hattie McDaniel 1920 (Gone with the Wind)
He is the first African American male tennis champion.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
She is the first African American Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams, 1984?
A prominent twentieth century African-American civil rights leader and labour organizer, also founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925. He helped porters and maids employed by the Pullman Company, a manufacturer and operator of railroad cars. Hint: FN: Asa, MN: Philip
Who was Asa Philip Randolph
One of the most influential artist in the history of music. Born in New Orleans, LA on August 4, 1901, he began playing the coronet at the age of 13? Hint: he sang "Hello Dolly"
Who is Louis Armstrong
This person is the 2nd black female actress Oscar winner.
Who is Halle Berry 2001?
She is the first African American female to win a Career Grand Slam in Tennis. Hint: She is the younger sister.
Who is Serena Williams?
He is the first African American network television show host. Hint: he sang "The Christmas Song"
Who is Nat King Cole?
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
Who is the African American who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993? Hint: she wrote the book "The Bluest Eye".
Who is Toni Morrison?
This is the name of the first black mass circulation magazine.
What is Ebony Magazine, 1945?
He is the first African American baseball player to be named the Major League Baseball World Series MVP (most valuable player) in 1964. Hint: He was a pitcher.
Who is Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals?
She is an African American female born in St. Louis, MO., was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist . Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France.
Who is Josephine Baker?
She and Weldon Irvine turned the unfinished play: 'To Be Young Gifted and Black' by Lorraine Hansberry into a civil rights song of the same name. She wrote in her autobiography, "I felt more alive then than I feel now because I was needed and I could sing something to help my people. Hint: initials NS
Who is Nina Simone?
Who is the African American who was the first black billionaire or what did he own to earn it?
Who is Robert Johnson or what is Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2001?
She is the first black woman television show host?
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
He is the first African American to play in the Presidents Cup in 1998. Hint: Golf
Who Tiger Woods?
She is the first African American female to win EGOT (Academy Award, 1990), Emmy Award, 1990), (Grammy, 1985), and (Tony, 2002). Hint: she starred in Sister Act.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
(1862-1931)She was a dedicated journalist and feminist, using investigative reporting to shed light on the horrors of the lynching of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. She also was the co-founder of the NAACP and worked alongside Susan B. Anthony during the women's suffrage movement.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Who is the first African American female member of the Metropolitan Opera Company? Hint: She sang at the Lincoln Memorial.
Who is Marian Anderson?