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He played the role of Jackie Robinson in the movie “42.”
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
He performed the first successful open-heart surgery.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
She is considered the greatest of all time in women’s tennis.
Who is Serena Williams?
Alice H. Parker invented a device powered by natural gas.
What is a Furnace?
Louvenia (Kitty) Black Perkins of Spartanburg became the chief designer of Mattel’s _______fashion and concepts.
What is Barbie?
John Elroy Sanford, AKA Redd Foxx, won a Golden Globe Award for this television show in 1973.
What is Sanford and Son?
She is the first female, African American, and Asian American Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
He was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Who is Ernie Davis?
Alice Augusta Ball developed this specific method as an effective treatment for leprosy.
What is the Ball Method?
Richard T. Greener was the first African American graduate of this University.
What is Harvard University?
He is a singer and songwriter who founded the band Hootie & the Blowfish.
Who is Darius Rucker?
She was the first African American woman to represent the US as an ambassador.
Who is Patricia Harris?
In 2004, Charlie Sifford became the first African American inducted into this World Hall of Fame.
What is Golf?
He received a patent for the casket-lowering device.
Who is Albert Richardson?
Carter Godwin Woodson launched the celebration then known as ______.
What is Negro History Week?
This blues singer and actress who was the first African American to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Who is Ethel Waters?
He was the first African American Appellate Judge.
Who is Judge Jasper M. Cureton?
Charles “Chuck” Cooper was the first African American ever drafted by an NBA team in 1950, he was drafted by this team.
Who are the Boston Celtics?
African American scientist who was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on Bioluminescence.
Who is Emmett Chappelle?
This place is a historic community founded by former slaves Simpson Foster and Emanuel Waddell in northern Spartanburg in 1880.
What is Little Africa?
The first Black female film producer, ___________, created and starred in the 1923 silent crime film The Flames of Wrath.
Who is Maria Williams?
She was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree.
Who is Mary Terrell?
She was the first African American to win a Grand Slam title, the French Championship, now called the French Open.
Who is Althea Gibson?
He is an African American engineer who invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the pacemaker.
Who is Otis F. Boykin?
This African American scientist was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on Bioluminescence.
Who is Emmett Chappelle?