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This individual broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947
Who is Jackie Robinson
This singer holds the record for the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time with "The Bodyguard Soundtrack."
Who is Whitney Houston?
This popular rapper first starred in a Canadian Teen Soap Opera called "Degrassi."
Who is Drake?
This famous Civil Rights lawyer became the country's first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This talk-show host and business woman went on to create her "OWN" TV network in 2011.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This heavyweight boxer famously changed his name after converting to Islam.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Although the exact origins of this music genre is unknown, it appears to have emerged in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War.
What is the Blues?
This rapper turned actor made his Movie Producer's debut with the movie "Friday."
Who is Ice Cube?
This former slave went on to be a famous educator and orator, becoming the first leader of Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This entrepreneur and social activist is recorded as being America's first female self-made millionaire
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This six-time NBA Champion took a small break from basketball to pursue a professional baseball career.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This artist wrote an anti-lynching protest song in 1938 called "Strange Fruit."
Billie Holiday
This singer became the most decorated woman in Grammy's history in 2021.
Who is Beyonce?
These community acitvists founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California in 1966
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
Robert Johnson became the first African-American majority owner of this NBA franchise?
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
This track star won 4 Olympic Gold Medals at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This music group is credited with creating the first major rap record hit called "Rapper's Delight."
Who are the Sugarhill Gang?
This comic became the first comedian to ever perform for an at-capacity NFL stadium.
Who is Kevin Hart?
This activist co-founded and represented the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hammer?
Daymond John is a businessman famous for being on what popular business reality TV show.
What is "Shark Tank?"
This individual became the first African-American to be inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame in 1968.
Who is Marion Motley?
This individual was the first African-American Woman to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in 1961
Who is Leontyne Price?
This author became the first African-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
In 1972, this member of the US House of Representatives became the first African-American and first woman to seek a major party's nomination for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This businessman is widely known as the South's first black millionaire.
Who is Robert R. Church?