University of Cincinnati
This person was the first African American to graduate from the University of Cincinnati and start the first Ohio state notary.
William Parham
This entertainer titled their first rap album "All Hail the Queen".
Queen Latifah
This athlete won back-to-back women's singles tennis titles at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001.
Venus Williams
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted suffrage rights to African American men. What does the word "suffrage" mean?
The right to vote
This person was regarded as the savior of southern agriculture.
George Washington Carver
Earning her medical degree in 1935, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Dr. Lucy Orintha Oxley
What Michael Jackson album won eight Grammy awards in 1983?
Thriller
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the all time NBA record for points scored. What was his name when he played for UCLA?
Lew Alcindor
This person was a great 19th century speaker declared that education means "light and Liberty"
Frederick Douglass
This scientist supervised the "lighting up" of New York City.
Lewis Latimer
Earning their bachelors and masters degree in biology, this person is considered one of the pioneering American behavioral scientists today.
Charles Henry Turner
She was called "the first lady of song", she began her career at age 15 in an armature contest at the Apollo Theater.
Ella Fitzgerald (her first hit was the 1938 recording "A Tisket a Tasket")
This person was the first African American to play major league baseball for what team.
Brooklyn Dodgers
John M. Langston was the first African American elected to a public office in the United States. To what office was he elected?
U.S. House of Representatives
This African American inventor patented the hearing aid.
Harry Hopkins
This African American student who, at the age of 16, was the youngest person ever to graduate from the University of Cincinnati. There is also a scholars program that was established in his honor.
Darwin T. Turner
What female African American author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988?
Toni Morrison
What team did Jim Brown began his professional football career in 1957?
Cleveland Browns
In 1967,this person became the first African American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1984, this physician become the first African American woman to perform neurosurgery.
Dr. Alexa Canady
In 1973, this person earned their Juris Doctorate from the College of Law at University of Cincinnati, receiving in that same year from the Supreme Court of Ohio her license to practice law
The Honorable Judge Cheryl Grant
This entertainer is third in holding the most Grammy won by a female artist, with Beyonce holding 28 Grammys and Aretha Franklin holding 18 Grammys.
Alicia Keys (15 Grammys)
This athlete won the most gold medals at both the Olympics and World Championships (23 in total) from 2013 to 2019.
Simone Biles
What congressional law is listed as Federal Public Law 98-144
Martin Luther King Day
This person was the first African American to earn a PhD in physics from Yale.
Dr. Edward A. Bouchet