The first black supermodel, after gracing the cover of glamour
Who is Beverly Johnson?
100
Organized the March on Washington of 1963
Who is Bayard Rustin?
100
Invented the filament for the light bulb, which actually makes the light bulb "light up".
Who is Lewis Latimer?
100
African-Americans link hair, politics, and group identity. This symbolized self-acceptance and resistance to oppression. At first it was political statement, then a fad.
What is the Afro?
100
First black woman to host a national TV show which aired in 1986.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
This musician and activist originally devised the idea for the "We Are The World" single to raise money for famine relief in Africa
Who is Harry Belafonte?
200
Following yet another unjust arrest, he announced his new philosophy of ‘Black Power’ to the world.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
200
Designed the pacemaker control unit, which makes the modern pacemaker possible.
Who is Otis Boykin?
200
Created specialized hair products for African-American hair, especially the hot comb, and was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire
Who is Sarah Breedlove, most commonly known as Madame C.J. Walker.
200
This is the name of the first professional Black owned basketball team, founded in 1923.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This African-American music composer and producer has 76 grammy-nominations and 26 awards, making him the highest grammy-nominated African-American in history
Who is Quincy Jones?
300
At the young age of six, she became a public face by entering into and desegregating an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
300
Engineered the first striking clock made entirely of indigenous American parts. Made entirely of hand carved wood parts and pinions, the clock struck on the hour for over 50 years.
Who Benjamin Banneker?
300
This type of hair is believed to prevent energy from escaping through the top of the head and hair, allowing it to remain in the body and aid in the strength of mind, body, and spirit.
What are "locs"?
300
He was the first president of the Harvard Law Review.
Who is Barack Obama?
400
This cartoon is the first to premier an all-black cast
What is Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids?
400
He led the first predominantly African American labor union and fought relentlessly for the rights of African American laborers, demanding equal rights and better working conditions and wages for them.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
400
Charles Richard Drew's extensive research of hemoglobin led to the development of these, which are still used today.
What are blood banks?
400
Known as wooly, kinky, or nappy; this added depth, texture, and color to White-American standards of beauty.
What is natural hair?
400
She was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Who is Toni Morrison? (Please read her works!)
500
The first African-American to host a national television show
Who is Nat King Cole, the Nat King Cole Show in 1956?
500
Her birth name being Joanne Deborah Chesimard, she was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. She escaped the facility in 1979.
Who is Assata Shakur?
500
Morgan saved lives by inventing two popular and relevant forms of modern technology.
What is the gas mask and traffic signal?
500
This individual patented the curling iron.
Who is Theora Stephens?
500
She was the first African American to be the president of an Ivy League school (ironically at Brown University!)