African American First
This is the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
She said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger.'
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This woman's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life.
Who is Billie Holiday
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell?
He said "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The first African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives in this year.
1870
(Black Republicans won three of the four congressional seats in South Carolina: Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels had been elected in 1869 and seated in 1870 to the Senate.)
This Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, banned all voter literacy tests and provided federal examiners in certain voting jurisdictions.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This African American was elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Hussein Obama, II?
He was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA.
What is "Hidden Figures"?
She is the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry.
He said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
First African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This important event occurred on August 28, 1963.
What is the March on Washington
He made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?