Men
Doug Williams
This man was a four time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympics...
Jesse Owens
This woman was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading about 70 enslaved people to freedom
Harriet Tubman
This woman created a media empire and became the first black multi-billionaire in North America
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first black First Lady of the United States?
Michelle Obama
One of the founders of the NAACP and an alumnus of Harvard University
W.E.B. DuBois
He moved like a butterfly and stung like a bee...
Muhummad Ali
The first black recipient of an Academy Award (Oscar) for her performance in Gone With the Wind
Hattie McDaniels
Who was the first black candidate of a major political party?
Shirley Chisolm
Who is the first black president of America
Barack Obama
One of the most famous writers during the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
The first black man to serve on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
The journalist who made sure America was aware its lynching crisis across the country?
Ida B. Wells
This famous poet knew why the caged bird sang and she was a phenomenal woman
Maya Angelou
This woman was the first black female headline artist of Coachella
Beyoncé
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of ___________, an American Slave?
Frederick Douglass
This famous civil rights leader was a member of the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
This woman asked for just a little bit of RESPECT
Aretha Franklin
She became the first female millionaire in America due to her successful line of hair care products
Madam C.J. Walker
This singer came from a family of 11 and became one of the best-selling artists in the world
Michael Jackson
Who is the originator of Black History Month? (double points if you can name the original form of BHM)
Carter G. Woodson
(Negro History Week)
One of the most famous activists of the Civil Rights Movement, first president of the SCLC and Atlanta native
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This woman's arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
This famous jazz songstress was the first black female artist to take home a Grammy Award...
Ella Fitzgerald
Whose arrest inspired a similar, more famous event nine months later in 1955?
Claudette Colvin