African American Firsts
Who was the first African American gold champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association?
Who is Tiger Woods.
Who said," I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger?"
Who is Harriet Tubman.
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks.
Who is Muhammad Ali.
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell.
Who said, "The time is always right to do what is right?"
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford.
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who is ranked as the 2nd best selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles.
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington.
Who said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream, and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise?"
Who is Maya Angelou
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "all facilities were equal?"
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from his group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X.
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker.
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
Who is Toni Morrison.
Which famous athlete said" Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali.
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which fourteen year old boy was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for being accused of offending a white woman in a store?
Who is Emmet Till.
In what year were the first African-Americans brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619.
Who said,"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American History."?
Who is Morgan Freeman.
Which African American was elected as the president of the United States in 2008?
Who is Barack Obama.
Which racially motivated attack caused the death of four girls in Alabama? (Hint: Attack was on a Church)
What is the Alabama Church Bombing.
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was the first African-American admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver.