Civil Rights & Activism
Who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, sparking the Civil Rights Movement?
Rosa Parks
Who invented the three-light traffic signal in 1923?
Garrett Morgan
Who wrote the novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Who was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Who became the first Black President of the United States?
Barack Obama
Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice in the U.S.?
Thurgood Marshall
What Black female mathematician's calculations were critical for NASA's first space mission?
Katherine Johnson
What African American playwright wrote "A Raisin in the Sun"?
Who is considered the greatest female tennis player of all time, winning 23 Grand Slam titles?
Serena Williams
Who was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968?
Shirley Chisholm
"I Have a Dream"
Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?
Mae Jemison
Who wrote "The Fire Next Time" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain"?
James Baldwin
Who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, defying Hitler's Aryan supremacy ideology?
Jesse Owens
Who is the first Black U.S. Vice President?
Kamala Harris
Who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966?
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale
Who developed over 300 uses for peanuts but did not invent peanut butter?
George Washington Carver
Who was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison
Who became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion in 1908?
Jack Johnson
Who led Ghana to independence and became its first president in 1957?
Kwame Nkrumah
This South African leader was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming the country's first Black President in 1994.
Nelson Mandela
Who helped develop the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine?
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
Langston Hughes
Who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic Gold medal in Track & Field?
Alice Coachman
Who was Canada's first Black Governor General?
Michaelle Jean