Politicians
He was the first African American Governor of Virginia
Who is Douglas Wilder
This basketball superstar was hilarious in Airplane?
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabar?
Refused to give up her bus seat
Who is Rosa Parks?
Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution after they refused to let her sing in Constitution Hall
Who is Marian Anderson?
She wrote - "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Who is Maya Angelou?
He was the first African American Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
He starred in the movie Sneakers with Robert Redford
Who is Sidney Portier?
Overturned Plessey vs. Ferguson
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Predating Rosa Parks, this 15 year old refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama
Who is Claudette Colvin?
He wrote "Between the World and Me"
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
His movies include Witness, The Color Purple and Lethal Weapon
Who is Danny Glover?
The line that follows - "We hold these truths to be self-evident"
"What is 'That all men are created equal' "?
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, the first Black Congresswoman from Massachusetts was ecstatic to learn she would be using the office once occupied by this trailblazer.
Who is Shirley Chisolm?
Nobel Prize winner in 1993 born Chloe Wofford
Who is Toni Morrison?
He was the first elected mayor of Washington DC
Who is Walter Washington?
She won an Oscar for Ghost
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
This civil rights leader is the only librarian to have served in Congress
Who is Major Owens?
Her song, "Strange Fruit" is one of the most haunting.
Who is Billie Holiday?
Among his books are Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
He is House Majority Whip
Who is James Clyburn?
This costar of the TV show Amen wrote the songs Amen and Mary Boy Child
Who is Jester Hariston?
Martin Luther King's Birthday became a federal holiday during his term as president.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The wife of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, she gave the invocation at Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Who is Myrlie Evers?
His best known book is Invisible Man
Who is Ralph Ellison?