Athletes
The self-proclaimed “greatest boxer alive”, originally named after the 19th century politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
MUHAMMAD ALI
THIS Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools be integrated?
BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION
“I never run my train off the track, and never lost a passenger”
HARRIET TUBMAN
An integral part of the Harlem Renaissance, this writer asks “what happens to a dream deferred?”
LANGSTON HUGHES
This shoe brand was created by and popularized by basketball player #23
JORDANS
This athlete is the first major athlete to win an Oscar and the first and only Black person as of 2019 to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short.
KOBE BRYANT
This supreme court case decreed a slave was his master’s property and African American’s were not citizens.
DRED SCOTT CASE
“The time is always right to do what is right”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” but all eyes were on this author after she released her best selling novel.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
This supermodel is the creator and producer of the hit reality series "America's Next Top Model" and was the first Black woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine
TYRA BANKS
THIS incredible tennis player won the Australian Open while pregnant, taking the total number of titles she has won to 23
SERENA WILLIAMS
In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, as well as the first woman to appear in a United States presidential debate
SHIRLEY CHISOLM
“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
Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature winner who centered the black female experience and gained prominence after her first novel, The Bluest Eye.
TONI MORRISON
Edward Enniful is the first Black person to be editor in chief of the British edition of this iconic magazine.
BRITISH VOGUE
Five-time all-around world champion gymnast with a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals. THIS gymnast is the most decorated American gymnast and the world's third most decorated gymnast
SIMONE BILES
The Supreme Court’s first African American justice.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her novel “Kindred” follows a black woman who time travels to the antebellum south.
OCTAVIA BUTLER
THIS supermodel is known for her famous feuds, her undeniable runway walk, British accent. Known as "The Body", she remains a staple in the fashion industry today
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Known for her long nails and fashionable, flashy outfits, this runner is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand. Beyonce also dressed as her for Halloween in 2018
FLORENCE "FLO-JO" GRIFFITH JOYNER
Supreme Court Case that stated segregation is legal and constitutional as long as facilities are separate but equal.
PLESSY V FERGUSON
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
MUHAMMAD ALI
Alice Walker wrote the novel for THIS book-turned-film starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg about two sisters in the South. Hint:”the hue of lilac, violets, and lavenders.”
THE COLOR PURPLE
Virgil Abloh is the designer behind what luxury streetwear brand? (Bonus: previously artistic director of WHAT high fashion brand with the initials LV)
OFF WHITE
Bonus: LOUIS VUITTON