Sport
First black athlete to win a Grand Slam Tournament 1956
Althea Gibson
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Invented “The improved” Ironing Board in 1892 (contoured design)
Sarah Boone
Helped make Dr. Martin Luther King’s Jr's Birthday a national holiday with the assistance of special lyrics from his “Happy Birthday” song.
Stevie Wonder
“If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.”
Booker T Washington
The first black person in Sports, Major League Baseball in 1947.
Jackie Robinson
UNCF
United Negro College Fund
Co-invented the Home Security System in 1966
Mary Van Brittan Brown
What year did "The Black Panther" first appeared in comic books.
1966
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
Barack Obama
Was the first black person to coach a professional sports team (Basketball)
Bill Russell
BLM
Black Lives Matter
Who invented the 3 light Traffic Light in 1923
Garrett Morgan
Invented the GIF
Lisa Gelobter
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come Get up and make them.”
Madam C. J. Walker
Was the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl in 1988 (WA Redskins)
Doug Williams
BHM
Black History Month
Invented Automatic Elevator Doors in 1887
Alexander Miles
Created the first major Blood Banks, Bloodmobiles and Blood Plasma Programs
Dr. Charles Drew
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W.E.B Du Bois
The first black athlete to win a medal at any Winter Olympics (Figure Skating)
Debi Thomas
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
Invented refrigerated Trucks in 1940 (what we are using to deliver vaccines all across America today!) His company is called Thermo King today.
Frederick Mckinley Jones
The first degree granting institution of higher education for Blacks and African Americans (the beginning of the HBCU’s).
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
“I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
Langston Hughes