Famous Black Women
This poet wrote “Still I Rise” and performed at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
He founded the Tuskegee Institute and was a major educator and advisor in the late 1800s.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This boxer became the first three-time lineal heavyweight champion in 1978.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This sitcom aired on NBC from 1984–1992 and is the only sitcom to hold the rating of number 1 under the Nielsen ratings for five seasons.
What is The Cosby Show?
This fictional HBCU is the setting of the 1987 sitcom "A Different World".
What is Hillman College?
This NASA mathematician helped calculate flight paths for Project Mercury and was portrayed in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This jazz musician, nicknamed “Satchmo,” helped popularize scat singing.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
She became the first Black gymnast to win Olympic all-around gold in 2012.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
This 2017 horror film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
What is Get Out?
What date in history did the Million Man March take place?
What is October 16, 1995?
She became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
He wrote The Souls of Black Folk and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
He was the first Black driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race in 1963.
Who is Wendell Scott ?
In her 2016 hit song from her sixth studio album Lemonade, Beyoncé proudly explained that she keeps this essential item in her bag.
What is hot sauce?
Who were the two founders of the Black Panthers?
Who is Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
This Harlem Renaissance writer authored Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This Cold War–era Supreme Court lawyer argued and won Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who is Sheryl Swoopes?
This HBO television series is about the awkward experiences of a contemporary African-American woman.
What is Insecure?
This African-American agricultural scientist from Diamond, Missouri is widely known for the invention of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This 19th-century activist delivered the speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This inventor improved the traffic light and created a gas mask prototype in the early 1900s.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This NFL quarterback is the first Black quarterback to win the SuperBowl.
Who is Doug Williams?
This actress is the first Black winner of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) awards.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
This Black historian and second African-American graduate of Harvard University, known as the Father of Black History, is responsible for the launch of Negro History Week in February 1926.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?