Inventors
This man did NOT invent peanut butter.
George Washington Carver
The man most known for his participation in the Civil Rights march in 1965.
Martin Luther King Junior
George Middleton was the leader in Boston Bucks of America, which fought valiantly in this war.
The Revolutionary War
The most well known conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Actor who won an Academy Awardfor his portrayal of a character who was a compilation of more than one African American soldier.
Denzel Washington
Patricia Bath invented this ‘eye catching’ surgery that helps thousands of aging people a year.
Cataracts laser surgery
An unknowing hero, this woman’s cells were used to forward cancer research ultimately saving thousands of lives.
Henrietta Lacks
This woman, before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat, thus prompting this Civil Rights movement.
Claudette Colvin
The area in Maryland where Harriet Tubman started her journey to self emancipation.
The Eastern Shore
One portrayal Hollywood got right, in the form of actor Cuba Gooding Jr., in the movie ‘Pearl Harbor’
Dory Miller
This famously popular snack was invented by George ’Crum’ Speck when a customer was dissatisfied with their meal.
The potato chip ( Saratoga Chips)
Which father and son military duo played a part in the Tuskegee story.
Benjamin O Davis Sr and B.O. Davis Jr.
The main characters in ‘Hidden Figures’.
Katherine Gobel Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan
Famous couple who disguised themselves as a white male and his enslaved male servant. They self emancipated from Georgia and made it all the way to Canada and then to Europe before returning to Georgia to teach.
William and Ellen Croft
The name of the 4th Hidden Figure.
Christine Darden
This man invented the traffic light.
Garrett Morgan
This group of African American men protested working in unsafe military conditions near San Francisco.
The Port Chicago 50
One of the soldiers portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie ‘Glory’.
William H Carney
How many areas did the Underground Railroad travel
14 states, Mexico and Canada
It wasn’t until a viewer of the movie ‘Lincoln‘ brought it to their attention that this state didn’t ratify the 13th amendment. Until Feb 7th, 2013…making it the last state to legally abolish slavery.
Mississippi
The first successful open heart surgery was perfo by this surgeon.
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
‘We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.’
W.E.B. DuBois
A little girl, who in 1847, starts the civil rights fight for equal education by attempting to desegregate her local school when she was 5 years old.
Sara Roberts
A stop on the Underground Railroad owned by this man who would threaten to blow up slave catchers with kegs of black powder he kept on his front porch in Boston.
Lewis Hayden
A movie that was based more on the white relative of the main character- since the entire history of the main character is based on 2 quotes and a singular pain’t it.
‘Belle’