Inventions
This man was the first African American to play in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson
An American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall
The first Oscar won by a black entertainer.
Who is Hattie McDaniel
Organization for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
The Black Panther Party
An African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. The wealthiest African-American businesseswoman and wealthiest self-made woman in America at the time of her death in 1919
Who is Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker
He became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department
Who is John Mercer Langston
She became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress
Who is Shirley Chisholm
An American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France
Josephine Baker
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
creator of black history month
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels
She was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
Who is Barbara Jordan
An American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois