GOVERMENT & POLITICS
INVENTIONS
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
21ST CENTURY YOUNG PEOPLE
CIVIL RIGHTS
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His "Yes We Can" campaign slogan helped him become the first Black POTUS
Barack Obama
100
Agricultural scientist who developed hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans
George Washington Carver
100
This 2018 film became the first Marvel movie with a predominantly Black cast and a Black director
Black Panther
100
At 30 years old, he became the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2018
Kendrick Lamar
100
Orator of the famous "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
Unless you think you just fell out of a coconut tree, you know this woman was the first Black VPOTUS
Kamala Harris
200
Garrett Morgan invented this device, making streets safer for drivers and pedestrians alike
Three-light traffic signal
200
With a net worth of $3B, she is the wealthiest Black woman in the country. Way to OWN it!
Oprah Winfrey
200
At 26-years old, she became the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history at the 2024 Paris games
Simone Biles
200
She refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
300
in 1967, he became the first Black justice of the SCOTUS
Thurgood Marshall
300
Be alarmed! This diagram shows the 1966 invention of Marie Van Brittan Brown: 
Home security system
300
Ads featuring Michael Jordan and this famous Black director helped boosted Nike sales in the late 80s and early 90s
Spike Lee
300
At 22- years old, she became the youngest inaugural poet in history with her poem "The Hill We Climb" in 2021
Amanda Gorman
300
She was the young girl at the center of the landmark 1954 case against the Topeka, KS Board of Education
Linda Brown
400
This 1870 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave Black men the right to vote
Amendment XV
400
Frederick Jones earned the nickname "King of Cool" for this invention, used by trucks to transport food, blood and medicine during WWII
Mobile automatic refrigeration system
400
In 2015, she became the first Black principal dancer in the 75-year history of the American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland
400
At 17-years old, his tragic death in 2012 led to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement
Trayvon Martin
400
The group of students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
500
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress -- surely you know her name
Shirley Chisholm
500
Sarah Boone earned a patent in 1892 for improvements made to this item -- don't be pressed
Ironing board
500
He was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964
Sidney Poitier
500
In 2017, at the age of 24-years old, she became the first Black woman to lead the Harvard Law Review in its 130-year history
Imelme Umana
500
The group of college students who launched the sit-in movement by refusing to leave a segregated lunch counter in 1960
The Greensboro Four