Black Female Scientists
This woman worked at NASA as a human calculator and was a crucial part of the Apollo moon launch.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This historic civil rights march in DC was the largest march for human rights march in America's history and was also the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
He is best known for arguing the historic case Brown V. Board of Education as a civil rights lawyer, but he was also the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This singer, often called the Queen of Soul, has been declared one of Rolling Stone's most influential artists twice. The movie Respect, based upon her experiences, was released in 2021.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This poet is famous for her American classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and many other books of poetry and essays. She was also an activist for civil rights and women's rights.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She invented a chemical treatment that helped to cure leprosy, which was the best cure for leprosy until the 1940's, and was the first woman and the first African-American to graduate from the University of Hawaii.
Who is Alice Ball?
These boycotts occurred when people stayed off of buses in Alabama to protest Rosa Parks' arrest.
What are the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
This woman is the first female vice president, first African-American vice president, and first Asian-American vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This jazz singer was the first Black woman to win a Grammy.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This journalist was famous for her writings on life as a Black woman in the south, and also was one of the founders of the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
She is the first Black woman to go into space, and is also a physician, engineer, and professor.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
This infamous event happened in 1965 when marchers from Selma to Montgomery, AL were moving over the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were brutally attacked by state forces
What is Bloody Sunday?
Sworn into office in 1870, this man was the first Black senator.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This famous jazz pianist (who founded the Basie orchestra in 1935) became the first Black man to win a Grammy in 1958, when he won Best Jazz Performance, Group and Best Performance by a Dance Band in 1958.
Who is Count Basie?
Best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, this author wrote poetry, plays, fiction books, and much more. His writing style was later called jazz poetry, and he is recognized as one of the founders of the style.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The first African-American and first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT.
Who is Shirley Anne Jackson?
A march comprised of students in Birmingham, Alabama, that were arrested. The day after, more children came to march and were brutally attacked by law enforcement. Recordings and photos of this were televised and people were outraged.
What is the Children's Crusade of 1963?
This man was the first Black president of South Africa, famous for his anti-apartheid methods.
This man was nominated for 11 Grammys in the 2022 awards and has also composed music for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the Disney movie Soul.
Who is Jon Batiste?
This author gained fame as a writer for the Atlantic, but has written many books on society and race relations, and has even written for Marvel in a new generation of the Black Panther comic books.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Who is Patricia Bath?
This act was passed in 1964, desegregating public spaces, declaring Plessy V. Ferguson unconstitutional, and banning discrimination based on race or other features in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
In 1904, this journalist, activist, politician, and editor ran for president, making him the first Black man to do so.
Who is George Edwin Taylor?
The Miseducation of [this artist] was the first hip-hop album to win a Grammy for Album of the Year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
Although she was an enslaved person, this poet was internationally famous for her works, written in the mid-18th century, and she established a correspondence with George Washington. Some of her poems include On Being Brought from Africa to America
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?