Entertainment
Agriculture
Health Care
Sports
Your own backyard
100
This record company played a vital role in the racial integration of popular music as an African-American owned label that achieved crossover success with the white audience.
Motown Records
100
After realizing that soil was being stripped of essential nutrients from repetitive cotton planting, he developed a new method for crop rotation.
George Washington Carver
100
This surgeon founded Provident Hospital on Chicago's south side.
Daniel Hale Williams
100
The dates of the Chicago Bulls 3-peats
1991 - 1993
1996 - 1998
100
Democrat from Illinois and the first African-American woman elected to the Senate.
Carol Moseley Braun
1992
200
First African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.
Halle Berry
200
This HBCU is known to have the best agriculture program.
Tuskegee University
200
This man discovered that plasma had a longer shelf life than blood and could be separated to be used in transfusions.
Charles Drew
200
Young player to ever win the Masters Championship. And the first winner of African or Asian heritage.
Eldrick "Tiger" Woods
200
A champion of social justice, with a mission to build a more interconnected Chicago on the pillars of service and education. As the founder and CEO of the city’s fastest growing social impact organization, My Block My Hood My City.
Jahmal Cole
300
Co-founder of BET. Now part owner of the Washington Wizards, Capitals, and Mystics.
Shelia Johnson
300
Henry Blair
300
First African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse.
Mary Eliza Mahoney
300
First African American to win an Olympic individual all around gold metal.
Gabby Douglas
300
In what year was National Black History Month passed into law by Congress?
1986
400
Many black entertainers began their career at this historic landmark in Harlem.
The Apollo Theater
400
His research helped boost the the growth of soybeans. He also extracted a protein from soybeans that is used as a flame-retardant foam in fire extinguishers.
Percy L. Julian
400
This Fisk graduate invented the electrical resistor that is used in pacemakers.
Otis Boykin
400
First black professional American football player.
Charles Follis
400
Chicago born and raised singer/actress. She is also the youngest woman to ever reach EGOT status.
Jennifer Hudson
500
In 1984, this New Yorker became the first African-American to win the Miss America Title.
Vanessa Williams
500
This fourth generation famer founded the National Black Farmers Association.
John Boyd Jr.
500
There have been 36 presidents of the American Nurses Association. Only 3 were black, who are they?
Drs. Barbara Nichols, Beverly Malone, and Ernest Grant
500
These 5 black women won 3 gold metals at a single Olympic games.
Wilma Rudolph (1960)
Valerie Brisco-Hooks (1984)
Florence Griffth_Joyner (1988)
Allyson Felix (2012)
Gabby Thomas (2024)
500
This artist has 10 Grammy wins for song like "Sweet Thing" and "Tell Me Something Good".
Chaka Khan