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This person was the first African-American golf champion to tour on the professional golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
This person stated, “I never read my train off the track and never lost the passenger?”
Who is Harriet Tubman
This person refused to give up her seat on a public bus and sparked a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama buses from 1955 to 1956
Who is Rosa Parks
An American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Who is Barack Obama
He invented the modern traffic lights which included a warning light to help driver stay safe. He also invented mass to help firefighters breathe safety
Who is Garrett Morgan
This person was the first African-American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
This person is responsible for the “ I have a dream”speech.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
This racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama
What is the Alabama church bombing
Ranked as the second best selling female artist of the 21st-century with record sales over $37 million
Who is Beyoncé Knowles
Receiving his first patent for a steam boiler furnace in 1885, this inventor patented an apparatus that was a combination of a telephone and a telegraph the device which he called telegraph would allow a telegraph station to send voice and telegraph messages through Morse code over a single wire
Who is Granville T Woods
He was the first African-American to have their likeness portrayed on the US 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
This person was known as the nation of Islam‘s most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 informed his own group, the organization of Afro-American unity
Who is Malcolm X
She became the first African-American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker
He was interested in astronomy and mechanics from a young age. He garnered public acclaim by building a clock entirely out of wood. The clock, believed to be the first built in America, kept precise time for decades.
Who is Benjamin Banneker
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
This famous athlete said “Hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which color does the hating it’s just plain wrong.”
Who is Muhammad Ali
This person was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950s and the 1960s and won the 1964 Nobel peace prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
She was the first African-American child to attend a formally whites only elementary school in Louisiana during the school desegregation crisis in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges
In 1892 she obtained United states patent number 473,563 for her improvements to the ironing board. The ironing board was designed to improve the quality of ironing the sleeves and bodies of women's garments.
Who is Sarah Boone
This person was the first African-American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
“I don’t want a Black History Month, Black History is American history.”
Who is Morgan Freeman?
A group of civilized activists challenged segregation in interstate transportation and bus terminals
What is Freedom Riders
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the national inventors Hall of Fame in 1990
Who is George Washington Carver
She invented the first closed-circuit television security system and paved the way for modern home Security systems used today.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown