African-American First
African-American Woman in Science
African-American Men in Science
African-American Authors
African-American Engineers & Architects
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These two people created the very known for coming up with an idea to make a BET Network
Who is Robert L. Johnson and Sheila Johnson
100
The doll test was this lady's idea
Who is Mamie Phipps
100
Inventor of the blood bank
Who is Charles Drew
100
Was an American science fiction writer
Who is Octavia E. Butler
100
Spent his entire career at the Philadelphia firm of the Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer
Who is Julian Abele
200
"And I won't judge you, and if you love, then let it beautiful" was created by the first African-American to have the most BET Awards and also to be nominated
Who is Chris Brown
200
She had to run back and forth to use the bathroom and she sometimes used to do her work in there
Who is Katherine Johnson
200
African American physician who performed the first prototype open-heart surgery
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
200
She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved
Who is Toni Morrison
200
Believed to have been the first African American woman licensed to practice Architecture in the United States
Who is Beverly Greene
300
Her name rhyme McDonald and she was the first African-American to win an Oscar in 1940 for playing the role Mammy in 'Gone With the Wind'
Who is Hattie McDaniel
300
Earned a medical degree in 1945 from New York Medical Hospital
Who is Jane Cooke Wright
300
Known for his work on egg fertilization and the structure of the cell
Who is Ernest Everett Just
300
He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins
Who is Walter Mosley
300
Award-winning architect who received the Whitney M. Young, Jr. award for Outstanding African-American Architect in the United States
Who is Curtis J. Moody
400
This first African-American graduated from Harvard
Who is Richard Theodore Greener
400
Became the first woman to be appointed to chair an ophthalmology program in the U.S. (at Drew/UCLA).
Who is Patricia Bath
400
African-American inventor who developed the mic in the 1960s
Who is James West
400
American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction
Who is Richard Wright
400
The first African-American architect to graduate from MIT
Who is Robert R. Taylor
500
Three point shooter this African-American was the first to make it to the NBA
Who is Earl Loyd
500
The first Black woman to become a neurosurgeon
Who is Alexa Canady
500
An organic chemist who was the first African American to teach at the U.S. Naval Academy
Who is Samuel Massie Jr.
500
With his ebony hand on the ivory key
Who is Langston Hughes
500
African-American architect registered in New York State and one of the first African-Americans to become a member of the American Institute of Architects
Who is Vertner Woodson Tandy