African American Women in Science
First Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
This Pediatric Neurosurgeon performed the first successful Separation of Conjoined Twins
Dr. Ben Carson
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Harriet Tubman
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Who was the first female African American neurosurgeon?
Who is Dr. Alexa Canady
He invented the 3 way traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
The founders of the NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary Church Terrell
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
The first African American woman to go into space
Who is Mae Jamison
This African American surgeon and researcher was a pioneer in the field of blood transfusions and blood storage.
Dr. Charles R. Drew
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Her 1986 study of sickle-cell disease led to a nationwide screening program to test newborns for immediate treatment, and she was the first African American woman to direct a public health service bureau
Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston
First African American doctor with his own practice in the United States.
Dr. James McCune Smith
This famous baseball player often said "Life is not a spectator's sport"
Who is Jackie Robinson
He founded The Medical Committee for Civil Rights (MCCR) in 1963 to address racism in the American Medical Association (AMA)
Dr. Walter Lear
The first African American to run for president through a major party?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
In 2020 her research on the coronavirus family at the NIH enabled her to prepare a modified sequence for a vaccine against Covid-19 that was later shared with Moderna.
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire
Performed the first documented successful open-heart surgery on a human in 1893. He is often regarded as the first African American Cardiologist.
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
A 2022 federal act that defines lynching as a hate crime was named for which person?
Who is Emmett Till- Emmett Till Antilynching Act
First African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Joseph Hayne Rainey