History
What term refers to colleges and universities founded to educate Black students?
HBCUs
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Who invented the modern traffic signal?
Garrett Morgan
Who is known as the “Queen of Jazz”?
Ella Fitzgerald
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
The 13th Amendment
Which Supreme Court case ended school segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education
Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?
Shirley Chisholm
Which scientist helped develop modern blood banks?
Dr. Charles Drew
What newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
The North Star
Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?
Mae Jemison
What is the name of the unethical U.S. study that denied treatment to Black men with syphilis for decades?
Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
Who was the first African American woman physician in the United States?
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Who was the NASA mathematician and inventor who helped calculate flight paths for early space missions?
Katherine Johnson
Who is known as the “Godfather of Soul”?
James Brown
This organization works to increase the number of Black physicians and improve health in Black communities
Student National Medical Association
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What surgeon performed the first successful open-heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Which inventor created many useful products from peanuts and sweet potatoes?
George Washington Carver
What music genre did Black artists pioneer in New Orleans?
Jazz
Who was the first African American woman billionaire?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice?
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Who was the civil rights leader and longtime president of the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who invented the carbon filament that improved the electric light bulb?
Lewis Latimer
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
This ophthalmologist and academic leader became the first Black president of the University of California system.