Educators
Who was a community organizer, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and went on to become the President of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who was the first African-American to be elected Mayor of Chicago ?
Harold Washington
Who was the first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire?
Madame C.J. Walker
Who is a Canadian Rapper and he popularized the Toronto Sound?
Drake
Who was the first African -American to play on a Major League Baseball team?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the woman that believed the greatest hope of Black people lay in the hands of women? She founded a school in Florida for young women.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who was the first female African- American to be elected Mayor of Chicago?
Lori Lightfoot
Who was the man who created Black History Month?
Carter G. Woodson
Who was an innovator of jazz poetry and was a leader in the Harlem Renaissance ?
Langston Hughes
Who was a basketball player who created a school for unfortunate children in Ohio?
LeBron James
Who was born into slavery, and went on to become one of the most prominent African-American intellectuals of the 19th century?
Booker T. Washington
Who is considered to be the most important influence in Black History?
Martin Luther King
Who invented over 300 products from peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Who was the first African- American woman to win a Grammy?
Ella Fitzgerald
Who is an African-American tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles?
Serena Williams
Who founded a scholarship program for women in the 1880's, and helped introduce them to academia?
Hallie Quinn Brown
Who was the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives?
Shirley Chisolm
Who was the first African-American woman in space?
Mae Jemison
Who is a Playwright from Pennsylvania who is known as theater's poet of Black America. He wrote 10 plays called the Pittsburgh Cycle that chronicles the 20th century black experience?
August Wilson
Who is the first African-American woman to win the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament?
Althea Gibson
Who was the Professor of Social Policy and Law at Brandeis University, hired by the Department of Education, that brought harassment charges to the EEOC-( Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).
Anita Hill
Who was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist and later was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 and served until 1991?
Thurgood Marshall
Who is a doctor with the Illinois Department of Public Health, she has worked on combatting the Corona virus?
Dr. Ngozi O Ezike
Who was the first African- American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie Mc Daniel
Who is a football player from the Chicago Bears, who was in the Superbowl Shuffle 1985, and was known as 'Sweetness'?
Walter Payton