Civil Rights
Politics and Military
Freedom Fighters
First Place
It Is a Mystery
100
He had a dream.
Martin Luther King Jr.
100
Barack Obama
100
She was one of the most famous "conductors" of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
100
This was the first black woman to go to space.
Mae Jamison
100
"When American schools wouldn't teach me to fly, I learned French so I could get my international pilot's license in France. Who am I?"
Bessie Coleman
200
Known as "Mr. Civil Rights," he founded the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in 1940.
Thurgood Marshall
200
She is believed to be the first woman to lead a military operation within the United States.
Harriet Tubman
200
This man escaped enslavement by mailing himself in one of these:
A box!
200
This person was the first African American to get three gold medals in one Olympic games.
Wilma Rudolph
200
"Firefighters and soldiers were grateful for my invention, which I called the safety hood! Who am I?"
Garrett Morgan
300
She was detained for refusing to give up her seat and lost her job for participating in the bus boycott.
Rosa Parks
300
He chose to practice law was because of his experience facing intense racism while serving as an officer in France during WWI.
Charles Hamilton Houston
300
This man taught himself to read and write in secret since, as an enslaved man at the time, he was not allowed to learn.
Frederick Douglass
300
He was the first African American brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr
300
"One gold medal wasn't enough for me. How about three? I was the first African American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. Who am I?"
Wilma Rudolph
400
West Virginia quietly integrated its graduate schools in 1939, West Virginia State’s president selected her and two men to be the first black students offered spots at the state’s flagship school, West Virginia University.
Katherin Johnson
400
She was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in 2019.
Dorothy Vaughan
400
Though he was born enslaved, this man was raised by his former owners as their own, where they encouraged his interest in plants.
George Washington Carver
400
This was the first African American man to own a car in Cleveland, Ohio.
Garret Morgan
400
"I discovered over 325 uses for a peanut! This was to encourage farmers to grow peanuts as a rotation crop so their fields would have better cotton yields. Who am I?"
George Washington Carver
500
She was chosen as one of the first Black children to attend white schools following the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 decision.
Ruby Bridges
500
Known as "the conscience of the U.S. congress and a genuine American hero and moral leader who commands widespread respect in the chamber.”
John Lewis
500
This formerly enslaved woman used to go by the name "Isabella Baumfree" before she chose a name for herself (the one we know her by).
Sojourner Truth
500
This was the first African American woman to graduate from Yale law school.
Jane Bolin
500
"Not only was I the first African American woman to go to space, but I also the first real astronaut to be a part of Star Trek!"
Mae Jamison