African American Women
She was the First African American female millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This Amendment made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is the number of historically black Colleges and Universities in the United States.
What is 105?
This scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy.
who is Wendell Belfield?
She was known as the "Queen of Soul".
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She led hundreds of slaves to freedom using a secret escape system called the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the US armed forces.
What was World War II?
in 1910 about 50% of the black labor force was employed in this industry.
What is Agriculture?
These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
He was the first African American elected into the Baseball Hall of fame.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
She was the first black female astronaut.
Who is Dr. Mae C. Jemison?
She was the first African American female judge in the United States.
Who is Matilda Bolin?
This man was the first African American to graduate from college.
Who is John Russwurm?
He was the first African American to ear a PHD in chemistry in the United States.
Who is St. Elmo Brady?
He became the first African American running back to rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season.
Who is Joe Perry?
She founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial School, which later became Bethune-Cookman College.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984, Rev. Jesse Jackson's dramatic call was to do this.
What is keep hope alive?
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by this abolitionist in 1847.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This man invented directional signals for the automobile.
Who is Richard Spike?
She was the first African American women to win an Academy Award.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
She was the first African American women elected to the US Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Thurgood Marshall argued and won this case challenging public school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
Established in 1881, this college is America's oldest historically black college for women.
What is Spelman College?
George Washington Carver used this food to develop postage stamp glue.
What are Sweet Potatoes?
In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in this film.
What is "Lilies of the Field"?