Black Inventors
A slave-born man with a Master's in agriculture science is often credited with inventing peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The movie that won Ruth E. Carter an Oscar in 2023 for costume design. Making her the first Black woman to earn two Oscars.
What is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?
A Black activist who has a holiday on his birthday and is a historical Civil Rights Movement figure.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Zora Neale Hurston published this book in 1937, set in Southern Florida.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
An invention by Garrett Morgan in 1923 that revolutionized traffic patterns.
What is a traffic light?
In 1996, George Walker became the first Black composer to win this prestigious award.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
An organization that fights for social justice issues impacting African Americans (Hint: they are strong activists against police brutality).
What is Black Lives Matter (BLM)?
The Black poet who gave a reading of their work for the 1993 Presidential Inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The invention use for a frozen treat that Alfred L. Cradlle is best known for.
What is an ice cream scoop?
In 1974, Lowery Stokes Sims became the first Black curator of this famous museum in New York.
What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art (i.e. the Met)?
An organization that was co-founded by W.E.B Du Bois in 1909.
What is the NAACP?
The title of the memoir that Barack Obama wrote discussing the difficulties of a biracial American.
What is Dreams from My Father?
A Black inventor received a patent in 1881 for a method of attaching carbon filaments to conducting wires within an electric lamp (i.e. the first electric lamp).
Who is Lewish Howard Latimer?
The first Hollywood film with sound to feature an all-Black cast.
What is Hallelujah (1929)?
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice and lawyer on Brown vs. Board of Education. Also has an HBCU named after him.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The author considered to be the first voice of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1929).
Who was Claude McKay?
The products that made Madam C.J. Walker the first “Black woman millionaire in America"
What is the Walker System hair care line?
Augusta Savage was considered the leading sculptor and artist of this movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A Black journalist who used investigative reporting to shed light on the lynching of Black Americans.
This Black writer and activist's FBI file was a whopping 1,884 pages. Making it the largest file the U.S. federal agency ever compiled on any writer.
Who is James Baldwin?