Black History Month

Icons

100

Who had a dream?

Martin Luther King Jr

200

First Black President

Barack Obama

300

First black woman elected into Congress

Shirley Chisholm

400

Human Rights Activist and Muslim Minister

Malcolm X

500

First black female Pilot

Bessie Coleman

Important Events

100

1960's

Black Civil Rights Movement

200

This biggest boycott in U.S. and it was lead by MLK

Montgomery Bus Boycott

300

1896 US Supreme Court rules "separate but equal"

Plessy v Ferguson

400

President Lincoln issues this law

Emancipation Proclamation

500

Over 250,000 people march on Aug 28th 1963. The largest gathering for civil right.

March on Washington

Sports

100

First African American to play in the MLB

Jackie Robinson

200

Arguably the greatest boxer of all time
Nickname "the Greatest"

Muhammad Ali

300

4-Time gold medalist in 1936 Berlin Olympics

Jesse Owens

400

The First Black Heavyweight Champion

Jack Johnson
"Galveston Giant"

500

First Black Coach in the NBA

Bill Russell

Random

100

Refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955

Rosa Parks

200

Escaped slavery and spent 11 years guiding other slaves to freedom

Harriet Tubman

300

First black student intergated into a white elementary school

Ruby Bridges

400

First black female millionaire

Madam C.J. Walker

500

First African-American Billionaire

Robert L Johnson (BET)

Inventors

100

Discovered over 300 uses for peanuts

George Washington Carver

200

Invented elevator doors

Alexander Miles

300

Invented the traffic light

Garrett Morgan

400

Over 60 patents for Refrigeration technology

Frederick McKinley Jones

500

Invented the first home-security invention

Marie Van Brittan Brown