Inventions
This Black History Inventor invented the three-way traffic light.
Garret Morgan
This novel, first published in 1962, follows the lives of two Black sharecroppers and their families in the Mississippi Delta.
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker?
Who directed "Get Out," a horror film that explores the hidden racism in a white liberal community and was acclaimed for its social commentary and symbolism?
Jordan Peele
This beauty was widely acclaimed as the first Black supermodel in the 1960s.
Naomi Sims
American singer-songwriter and actress who achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny's Child and then launched a hugely successful solo career.
This Black Inventor promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
George Washington Carver
This series, written in a diary format, uses drawings, doodles, and comic strips to chronicle the daily life of its initially 14-year-old protagonist.
"Dork Diaries" by Rachel Renée Russell
This film features a Fourteen-year-old girl growing up while trying to gain her independence and faces typical teenage experiences in junior high.
Proud Family
as an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women
Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone
his black woman was a key leader in the Civil Rights movement, and she is often referred to as the "Mother of the Movement".
Septima Poinsette Clark
What black inventor was famous for the invention of the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph.
Granville T. Woods
Who composed "Amazing Grace," a Christian hymn that has become an emblem of the anti-slavery and Civil Rights movements?
John Newton
better known by his stage name the stage name, This black actor was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career.
The Flat-top and High-top fade were popularized by what person
Will Smith
She was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
dr. Rebecca lee Crumpler
This black inventor is famous for their invention of the seed planter.
Henry Blair
This company was an American jazz and blues record label founded in 1921 in Harlem, New York. It was the first widely distributed label to be owned, operated, and marketed to African Americans. Founded by Harry Pace with W.C.
Black Swan Records
This person is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues
Spike Lee
This American barber and haircare entrepreneur who invented the “Afro pick”
Willie Lee Morrow
She was the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School.
Ruby Bridges
What Black inventor in the early 20th century was best known for patenting a central heating system that uses natural gas.
Alice H. Parker
Who is the Author of Tar Beach, a children's book set in New York in 1939? About a girl whose dearest dream is to be free to go wherever she wants, and one day it comes true when the stars help her to fly across the city.
Faith Ringgold
American cable television network and multimedia group providing news, entertainment, and other programming developed primarily for African American viewers.
BET
This temporary version of dreadlocks is created by braiding the natural hair and wrapping the braid with kinky extension hair.
Faux Locs
This black woman was a writer and civil rights activist who was the first black woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison