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This 1982 album by Michael Jackson is the best-selling album of all time.
Thriller
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
The first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
The African nation President Lincoln wanted formerly enslaved Africans to expatriate to.
Liberia
What NAACP stands for.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Widely known as Muhammad Ali, this was his birth name.
Cassius Clay
“Ain’t I a woman?”
Sojourner Truth
The first African American to win an Academy Award.
Hattie McDaniel for her role in Gone With The Wind as "Mammy"
Winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, beating the Nazis
Jesse Owens
She voiced the first Black Disney princess in the film, Princess and the Frog.
Anika Noni Rose
Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday" song is addressed to this person.
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Fannie Lou Hamer
She was the first Black millionaire, making her money off of revolutionary hair products.
Madame C.J. Walker
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down laws banning interracial marriage.
Loving V. Virginia
The city known as “Black Wall Street”.
Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK
This Harlem Renaissance performer, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” was one of the highest-paid Black entertainers of the 1920s.
Bessie Smith
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
Shirley Chisolm
The first Black person to publish a book.
Phillis Wheatley (first Black woman, first enslaved woman, and third American colonial woman overall)
This was the year Mississipi ratified the 13th Amendment, effectively abolishing slavery.
2013
This Caribbean nation became the first independent Black republic in 1804 after a successful slave revolt.
Haiti
This woman co-founded Sugar Hill Records and helped launch commercial hip-hop with “Rapper’s Delight.”
Silvia Robinson
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
The first African American to go to space.
Guion Stewart Bluford (1983 on the Challenger)
After his pilgrimage to mecca, Malcom X took on this name.
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
The number of uses for peanuts that George Washington Carver discovered.
Over 300