Sports
Who was the first African American to win the Masters Golf Tournament?
Tiger Woods
Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for what novel?
The Color Purple
Before he was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama served as a U.S. senator of which Midwestern state?
Illinois
Known as the “Queen of Soul,” which singer’s 1967 hit Respect became an anthem for civil rights and feminism?
Aretha Franklin
Who said, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fritz Pollard
He was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Ralph Bunche
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Rolling Stone named this black musician “the greatest guitar player ever."
Jimi Hendrix
Who said, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any,” in her writings on activism and empowerment?
Alice Walker
In what year did Jackie Robinson arrive in the Major Leagues?
1947
Maya Angelou became the first woman, and first African American to read a poem at a presidential inauguration.
Whose inauguration was it?
Bill Clinton
What President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the first African American woman to win a Grammy Award?
Ella Fitzgerald
What activist declared, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” in his 1857 speech on abolition and self-determination?
Frederick Douglass
Who was the first African American to coach a professional sports team?
Bill Russell - Boston Celtics
Who is known as the Father of Black History?
Carter G. Woodson
What year did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863
The first African-American to win an Academy Award for their part in “Lilies of the Field."
Sidney Poitier
Who declared, “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to—liberty or death,” in her 1851 speech?
Harriet Tubman
He was the first African-American to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Arthur Ashe
Which lawyer and NAACP litigator successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
In 1968 this person became the first African American woman elected to Congress.
Shirley Chisholm
Host of one of the most celebrated and longest-running daytime talk shows in television history.
Oprah Winfrey
Who famously said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own”?
Audre Lorde