African Americans in Business
Who was the first African-American women to be a self-made millionaire?
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who said, “Darkness can not drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who created the original design for the traffic light?
Who is Garrett Morgan
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay
Who is Muhammad Ali
How many publicly traded companies, on the NYSE today, are black owned?
What is eight
** Urban One (UONE), Ping Identity Holding Corp, Global Blood Therapeutics, Axsome Therapeutics, American Shared Hospital Services (AMS), RLJ Lodging (RLJ), and Sycamore Entertainment Group, Inc. (SEGI)**
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who Colin Powell?
Who said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is President Barack Obama
Who created the original system for the modern day security camera?
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
Who was the first black CEO of a Fortune 500 company?
Who is Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
Of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF)
Who was the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South?
Who is Ruby Bridges
Who said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Who is Frederick Douglass
Who created the first successful laser surgical device, which is still used to this day for operations, like cataracts surgery?
Who is Patricia Bath
Who became the first black actor to win an Oscar?
Who is Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field in 1964)
What HBCU Business School is home to the most successful business leaders in America?
Howard University School of Business
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
Who said, “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.”
Who is Serena Williams
Who created the modern blood bank, which went on to save thousands of people duringW WWII and continues to save lives today?
Who is Charles Drew
Who was the first black person to win Nobel Peace Prize?
Who is Ralph Bunche
(for having arranged a cease-fire between Israelis and Arabs during the war which followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.)
Who was the first black billionaire listed on Forbes?
Who is Patrice Motsepe (chairman of African Rainbow Minerals)
Who was the first African American invited to dine at the White House?
What is Booker T. Washington?
Who said, ”I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.”
Who is Langston Hughes
Who was the first person to successfully complete open-heart surgery?
Who is Daniel Hale Williams
Who was the first African American person in space?
Who is Guion Bluford (on the Shuttle Challenger in 1983)