African American Firsts
Who said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who is the first African-American to be elected president of the United States?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is the undisputed boxer of all time”?
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Where is the first African Methodist Episcopal Church located?
Where is Philadelphia, PA? Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church was founded in 1794 by Richard Allen
Who said “If there is no struggle, there is no progress”?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Who set the world record in the long jump in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin?
Who is Jesse Owens?
Who is the first African-American to publish a book?
Who is Phillis Wheatley? She wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773
Who said "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying”?
Who is Michael Jordan?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Whose cancer cells were taken and later became the first immortalized human cell line?
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Who was the first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States?
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What is the name of the girl who was escorted by four armed federal marshalls to integrate William Frantz Elementary School?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Who co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries)? This organization provided housing and support for homeless LGBT youth in Manhattan.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson? Also founded by Sylvia Rivera