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He is regarded as the most renowned Black scientist of the early twentieth century. He spent his career promoting Tuskegee University, environmentalism, racial harmony, and the peanut; the latter which he used to invent peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver.
Born with the last name Little, that he would later shed, he became a prominent civil rights leader for the Nation of Islam, criticizing he nonviolent movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Malcolm X
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garzan and Opal Tometi started this organization as a reaction to the murder of Trayvon Martin
What is Black Lives Matter
This prominent Black woman was a leader in the Civil War and the most famous figure associated with the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
This writer and poet is famous from the Harlem Renaissance for poems like "I Too, am America."
Who is Langston Hughes
It was his carbon light bulb filament that enabled Thomas Edison's light bulb to actually work
Who is Lewis Latimer
He was the youngest speaker and organizer of the March on Washington, as well as one of the "Big 6" of the civil rights movement. He would later go on to become a Senator.
Who is John Lewis
She is the youngest inaugural poet laureate in history.
Who is Amanda Gorman
The ruling of the Supreme Court in 1859 against this man said that slaves were not citizens of the United States and thus, not entitled to the rights of citizens of the United States
Who is Dred Scott
He made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first Black person to play in Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson
She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records thanks to her line of hair products for Black hair.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
A journalist and feminist, she wrote about the horrors of lynching and Jim Crow, and was one of the co-founders of the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells
She made history when she became the first Black Vice President of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris
During this time period immediately following the Civil War, sixteen Black people served in Congress, including the first Black senator, Hiram Revels
What is Reconstruction
In 1958, she became the first Black artist to ever win a Grammy, actually taking home two Grammys that night.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
If you ever receive a blood transfusion, you have him to thank for his invention of improved blood storage and blood banks
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
Escaping from slavery in Maryland, he would go on to become a famous oratory and abolitionist
Who is Frederick Douglass
In 2018, Cynt Marshall became the first Black woman CEO in this organization
What is the NBA
In 1896, the Supreme Court's ruling in this case, established the "one drop rule" and held that racial segregation was constitutional, paving the way for Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Diagnosed with polio as a child, she would go on to be the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Olympics
Who is Wilma Rudolph
She was the first known Black woman to receive a patent in the United States in 1885 for her folding cabinet bed.
Who is Sarah E. Goode
His work with trade unions led FDR to ban discrimination in defense industries and at the federal level. As the leader of the League of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation, he inspired Truman to forbid segregation in the military.
Who is A. Philip Randolph
As a viral immunologist and research fellow in the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbet was the lead scientist who developed this
What is the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
This prominent sociologist, activist, and author, founded the Niagara movement, which led the way for the creation of the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
As the first winner of an Academy Award, she was not allowed to attend the premiere of the movie she won the award for because it was held at a whites-only theater
Who is Hattie McDaniel