FAMOUS LEADERS
INVENTORS & CREATORS
ARTISTS & MUSICIANS
SPORTS LEGENDS
TRAILBLAZERS
100
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
100
Who invented the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
100
Who is known as the “Queen of Jazz”?
Ella Fitzgerald
100
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in modern times?
Jackie Robinson
100
Who was the first African American woman to travel into space?
Mae Jemison
200
Who was the first African American president?
Barack Obama
200
Who improved the ironing board?
Sarah Boone
200
Who wrote poems about hope and equality?
Maya Angelou
200
Who is a famous basketball player known for winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls?
Michael Jordan
200
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
300
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus?
Rosa Parks
300
Who created many uses for peanuts?
George Washinton Carver
300
Who sang the famous song “Respect”?
Aretha Franklin
300
Who was the first African American woman to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament?
Althea Gibson
300
Who became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
Alice Coachman
400
Who helped people escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
400
Who invented the Super Soaker water toy?
Lonnie Johnson
400
Who was a famous trumpet player and jazz singer?
Louis Armstrong
400
Who is a famous gymnast who won many Olympic medals and is known for her powerful flips?
Simone Biles
400
Who was a famous journalist who fought against unfair treatment and wrote about civil rights?
Ida B. Wells
500
Who bravely attended an all‑white school as a young girl?
Ruby Bridges
500
Who invented the mailbox with a door to keep letters safe?
Philip Downing
500
Who painted colorful pictures of African American life?
Jacob Lawrence
500
Who was a famous boxer known as “The Greatest” and for saying, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”?
Muhammad Ali
500
Who was the first first African American and Native American woman to earn a pilot’s license?
Bessie Coleman