African American First
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This African American created the artificial heart pacemaker control unit, guided missiles, and IBM computers
Who is Otis Boykin?
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who was the first African American to become a United States Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This African-American helped create the traffic light we all use today
Who is Garrett Morgan?
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Who is Ralph Bunche?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?
This African-American nurse devised an early security unit for her own home, whose model is followed today in home security systems
Who is Mary Van Brittan Brown?
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X?
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison?
Which Supreme Court Case ruled that the prohibition on interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till?
This person created the world's first super computer — able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second
(Hint: Often referred to as Africa's Bill Gates)
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Who is Hiram Revels?
Which Court Case ruled that racial segregation on buses in Montgomery Alabama was illegal?
What is Browder v. Gayle?
Who was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for for civil and human rights?
What is Sojourner Truth?
This African American is known for being the first African American granted a patent for a dry cleaning process called dry scouring
Who is Thomas L. Jennings?
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?