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This male artists groundbreaking music video for "Billie Jean" was the first music video by a black artist to appear on MTV.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Breaking one of the most hallowed records in all of sports by becoming the NBA's all-time scoring leader with 38,390 points?
Who is LeBron James?
Florida has required its schools to teach African American history since this year.
What is 1994?
She was just 6 years old when she became the first African American student to attend William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana at the height of desegregation.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
An African American man who created the traffic light? He was granted a patent in 1923 for a traffic control device which included a third warning signal (“yellow”).
He later sold the rights to this device to General Electric for the reported amount of $40,000. He also became the first African American to own a car in Cleveland, Ohio.
This woman won the first and only Grammy for Best Disco Recording with "I Will Survive"; the recording academy discontinued the category after disco fell out of public favor.
Who is Gloria Gaynor?
U.S. Olympic gymnast that became the first African-American to win the all-around Olympic gold and the first American athlete to win both the team gold in gymnastics and the all-around gold medal.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
A collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation?
(Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities.)
What are Jim Crow laws?
Before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
She is the first African American woman to have her very own television production company.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Who is Beyonce?
Super Bowl LVII Event is significant in Black History with two black starting quarterbacks. What are their names?
Who is Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes?
During the racially contentious period in the late '60s, she became the first Black woman elected to Congress. She represented New York's 12th District from 1969 to 1983, and in 1972, she became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
One of the most well-known civil rights leaders. He was a Baptist minister and activist who fought against racial inequality. He was a proponent of nonviolence and peaceful protest. He was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which aims to achieve racial equality peacefully.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
She was the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize (in 1950, for "Annie Allen"), and she served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, becoming the first Black woman to hold that position.
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The first black athlete to win a Grand Slam Tournament. She won the French Open in 1956, and went on to win four more Grand Slam Tournaments. After tennis, she moved to golf, and was the first African American on the LPGA Tour in 1963.
Who is Althea Gibson?
A pioneer in law, Jane Bolin was the first Black woman to attend Yale Law School in 1931. In 1939, she became the first Black female judge in the United States. She served on the boards of the NAACP, Child Welfare League of America, and the Neighborhood Children’s Center.
Who is Jane Bolin?
The 44th president of the United States and the very first African American president. He served two terms and made several noteworthy accomplishments.
Who is President Barack Obama?
A Black trans woman and activist, was at the forefront of fighting for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 70s (including partaking in the resistance at Stonewall). In addition to being the cofounder of STAR, an organization that housed homeless queer youth, Johnson also fought for equality through the Gay Liberation Front.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
The first Black artist to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “It's All In The Game,” an oldie swing song prophesying a couple's first kiss.
Who is Tommy Edwards?
The first Black woman to be hired as a full-time NFL coach.
Who is Jennifer King?
In 1964, this President signed the Civil Rights Act, which legally ended the segregation that had been institutionalized by Jim Crow laws.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
After his family gained freedom through the Emancipation Proclamation, there were no schools in his area. However, he didn’t let that stop him. Instead, he walked 500 miles to enroll in school at the Hampton Institute. Washington excelled academically and became the first teacher and principal at the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This state was the first colony to ban slavery in 1777.
What is Vermont?