Navy
She was the first woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral and the first woman to be appointed to the position of Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
ADM Michelle J Howard, she retired on December 1st 2017
Turned into a lifeline for black America. He embraced Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad's teachings of black empowerment and self-sufficiency.
Malcom X
He was the first African American baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown vs. Board of Education
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Harriet Tubman
President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on ________. It banned racial segregation in the U.S. military, though the process of desegregation took several years.
July 26, 1948
After refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, she was arrested. (Double point if you can name both women)
Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin
She is a champion women's tennis player and four-time Olympic gold medalist and won seven Grand Slam titles, including five Wimbledon championships.
Venus Williams
On July 2, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson signed this Act into Law
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross
Messman Third Class Doris Miller, later he was killed in the Battle of Makin Island
He gave one of his famous speeches during the March on Washington: he said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was the first member of the Cavalier franchise and the youngest player to receive the Rookie of the Year Award at age 20, and the youngest player to score 20,000 points at age 28. He led the Miami Heat to NBA championship victories in both 2012 and 2013.
Lebron James
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Which famous athlete said "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"
Muhammad Ali
In 1970, he became the first African-American U.S. Navy Master Diver and achieved the rating of Master Chief Boatswain’s Mate.
BMCM Carl Brashear
Perhaps the nation’s most well-known black intellectual. His legacy as a professor, political activist, prolific scholar & utmost public intellectual remains unparalleled. He was a founding member of the NAACP.
W.E.B. Du Bois
He is the current record holder for the most NBA MVP awards.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
She was the first African-American woman to be appointed national security adviser and U.S. Secretary of State.
Condoleezza Rice
Ivy League pedigree (Columbia, Harvard Law), community activism on Chicago’s tough South Side as well as stints as an Illinois & U.S. senator. His famous line is Yes We Can!
President Obama
Name the three ships in service that are named after an African American
USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) homeport Norfolk, VA
USS Pinckney (DDG-91) homeport San Diego, CA
USS Gravely (DDG-107) homeport Norfolk, VA
She escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This current NFL quarterback’s grandfather was a president at Norfolk State University a historically black university.
Russel Wilson
He was the first African American appointed as the U.S. Secretary of State, and the first, and so far the only, to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Colin Powell
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela