Government
First Black President & Vice President Respectively
Who are Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
A building on UB's North Campus is named after this civil rights female activist
Who is Mary Talbert?
Inventor of products with peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver?
Who is Amanda Gorman?
First Black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Sociologists and cofounder of the NAACP
(Hint: Opposed Booker T. Washington)
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
First Black female millionaire
(Hint: Hair care products)
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
Poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
NYS Attorney General
Who is Letitia James?
First person to refuse giving up their seat on a segregated bus
Who is Claudette Colvin?
First Black woman to travel to space
Who is Mae Jemison?
Writer during the Harlem Renaissance who wrote about African American in the South.
(Hint: Her most known novel is "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
First Black congresswoman
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Black journalist and co-founder of the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Invented the modern-day iron board
Who is Sarah Boone?
First Black man to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)
Who is John Legend?
First Black Senator
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Coined the term intersectionality
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
First Black person to earn an M.D.
Who is James McCune Smith?
First Black woman to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?