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civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' and her numerous poetry and essay collections. Also best known for the saying still I rise
Maya Angelou
The first female and First Black Vice President
Kamala Harris
invented an innovative line of African American hair care products in 1905 that led to her distinction as one of America’s first self-made millionaires.
Madam C. J. Walker
This war was about slavery
The Civil War
Most streamed artist of the 2000's decade
Drake
writer whose poems, columns, novels and plays made him a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Most fampus poem "A Dream Deferred"
Langston Hughes
First Black President
developed the automatic refrigeration equipment used in long-haul trucks transporting perishables in the late 1940s, the only way to keep food cold en route to delivery destinations was by using ice.
Fredrick McKinley Jones
the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states still were subject to racist, so-called Jim Crow laws.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Who won the first Hip Hop Grammy
Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff
an essayist, playwright, novelist and voice of the American civil rights movement known for works including 'Notes of a Native Son,' 'The Fire Next Time' and 'Go Tell It on the Mountain.' & most recently published his works of "I am not your negro"
James Baldwin
an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991.
Thurgood Marshall
devised over 100 products using one major crop — the peanut — including dyes, plastics and gasoline.
George Washington Carver
This war saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers
Vietnam War
Who has the most Grammys
Beyoncé
a Pulitzer Prize-winning, African American novelist and poet most famous for authoring 'The Color Purple.'
Alice Walker
the first African American woman to win a seat in Congress.
Shirley Chisholm
an Columbus, Ohio - African American inventor who made key contributions to the development of the telephone, streetcar and more. And most important invention invention was the telegraph
Granville T. Woods
African Americans made up over one million of the more than 16 million U.S. men and women to serve in this war. Some of these men served in infantry, artillery, and tank units.
World War II
First Black woman to ever win a grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
a writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted generations of African American lives. He is widely known for 'Roots' and 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.'
Alex Haley
an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State.
Colin Powell
the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986.
Patricia Bath
In May 1917, Fort Des Moines opened its doors to black officer-trainees. Approximately 1,250 men attended the camp
Shining Stars
the first African-American musician to sell a million records from a single and to have a nationally syndicated radio show.
Cab Calloway