Black Inventors
This inventor created a line of cosmetics and haircare products designed for textured hair/tailored for black women.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
An American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
An Adventist leader and minister that became the first Seventh-day Adventist minister of color, was responsible for 150-300 people becoming Sabbatarian Adventists.
Who is Eri L. Barr?
This gospel artist first rose to prominence during the 1980s as a member of a double platinum selling duo with her brother.
Who is CeCe Winans?
This Black Canadian woman refused to leave a ‘Whites-Only’ section of a Nova Scotia theatre in 1946.
Who is Viola Desmond?
Ahead of the curb on scam calls and unknown numbers, this physicist was not only the first woman to earn a Ph.D from MIT, her research enabled caller ID and Call waiting.
Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson?
This American engineer and physician was the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992
The 62nd chaplain of the United States Senate, becoming the first African American and first Seventh-day Adventist to hold the office.
Who is Barry Clayton Black?
This gospel artist got her start on the 8th season of The Voice at age 17.
Who is Koryn Hawthorne?
This former enslaved woman became the first Black woman to publish a book in Canada.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd?
As the first black woman elected into Parliament, this Black Canadian educator helped make Black History Month officially recognized in Canada.
Who is Dr. Jean Augustine?
A track-and-field athlete who set a world record in the long jump at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and won four gold medals.
Who is Jesse Owens?
A world-renowned African American soprano soloist from Knoxville, Tennessee and attended Oakwood Junior College (now Oakwood University) in the early 1920s
Who is Alyne Dumas Lee?
This gospel artist released his well known song "The Anthem" in 2016.
Who is Todd Delaney?
This Black Canadian Baptist preacher founded a settlement in Ontario for formerly enslaved people.
Who is William King?
A pioneer in defense, this madam created the first home security system featuring a panning camera and connected microphone.
Who is Mary Van Brittan Brown?
The first licensed Black pilot in the world, and paved the way for a new generation of diverse fliers like the Tuskegee Airmen, Blackbirds, and Flying Hobos.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
One of the most successful evangelists of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and as speaker-director of Breath of Life Ministries for twenty-three years was a trailblazer of religious media.
Who is Charles Decatur Brooks (universally known as “C. D. Brooks”)?
This gospel artist's 3rd album, "Make Room", was his biggest success yet, earning him 8 Stellar Awards and 2 Grammy Award nominations.
Who is Jonathan McReynolds?
This Black Canadian journalist used newspapers to fight racism and promote education in the 1800s.
Who is Henry Bibb?
Green means ‘go’ and red means ‘Stop!’ A universal director of traffic worldwide and road safety through the unique invention of this three light signal system.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Before Rosa Parks, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus, she was the first woman to be detained for her resistance.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
A pioneer of the 20th-century civil rights movement in America, and when a Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy handed Morgan an arrest warrant, she tore it up and threw it out the window.
Who is Irene Morgan (later Kirkaldy)?
This gospel artist was known for using a variety of different styles in his music such as R&B, Hip-Hop, and Disco.
Who is Fred Hammond?
This Black Canadian woman became the first Black judge appointed in Canada.
Who is Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré?