Famous Black women
She is known as the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
Rosa Parks
He led the Million Man March on Washington.
Louis Farrakhan
What was the name of Thomas Edison's assistant? He invented the carbon filament that made the electric lamp possible.
Lewis H Latimer
Moses married this Ethiopian woman.
Zipporah
She was known as the "Black Moses because of all the people she led to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
She was the first Black female astronaut.
Mae Jamison
Known for his fiery speeches, he was assassinated in 1964.
Malcolm X
This person invented an automatic stop sign and sold it for $40,000 to the General Electric Company.
Garrett Morgan
What was the name of the Moabite woman who was King David's great grandmother?
Ruth
He led his Black brothers in a revolt that ended slavery in Haiti.
Toussaint L'Overture
This woman became a millionaire in 186 7 from her invention of the straightening comb.
Madame C J Walker
This minister and political activist ran for president in 1984.
Rev Jesse Jackson
Who invented the ironing board?
Sarah Boone
These two men were the only Hebrew adults who left Egypt with Moses and actually got to live in the Promised Land.
Joshua and Caleb
He escaped slavery and became a famous abolitionist and orator.
Frederick Douglas
The daughter of freed slaves, she founded a college in Florida.
Mary McLeod Bethune
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his adherence t.o non-violent resistance to unjust laws.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
This doctor invented a means of storing blood plasma, thereby by saving millions of lives.
Dr Charles Drew
God punished her by turning her "white as snow" when she objected to Moses' marriage to the Ethiopian woman.
Miriam (Moses's sister)
An abolitionist and advocate for women, she made the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Sojourner Truth
When she wasn't allowed to sing in Carnegie Hall because she was Black, 75,000 people gathered to hear her sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Mirian Anderson
This Secretary of Commerce was killed in a plane crash while traveling to war-torn Croatia.
Ron Brown
This scientist developed over 100 uses for the peanut, including peanut butter.
Dr. George Washington Carver
She is known as the "Queen of Sheba."
Makeda
He spent 27 years in prison and was released in 1990
Nelson Mandela