Black Trailblazers
He was the first black astronaut to walk in space.
Who is Bernard Harris, Jr.
"I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This "First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement" was a famous activist known for helping register black people to vote in Mississippi.
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer
What is the real name of "Famous Amos", founder of the Famous Amos Cookies brand?
Who is Wally Amos
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 is Martin Luther King, Jr.
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
He's referred to as "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement".
Who is Frederick Douglass.
She's ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
Who is Beyonce Knowles
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is 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 is Maya Angelou
By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40, he had earned this nickname from the press.
What is Mr. Civil Rights
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X
This track star won 9 Gold medals in an Olympic career that spanned 3 decades.
Who is Carl Lewis
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye").
Who is Toni Morrison
“Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”
Who is James Baldwin
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
Former U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil rights movement through this organization.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption “He and the boss took a chance.”
Who is Jackie Robinson
He became the first African American billionaire in 2001.
Who is Robert Louis Johnson
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman
He was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to the U.S. Government.
Henry Flipper
This Civil Rights leader and clergyman organized the famous “poor people‟s campaign” in Washington D.C.
Who is Ralph Abernathy
When she was elected mayor of Washington DC in 1990, she became the first Black American woman mayor of a major US city.
Who is Sharon Pratt Kelly