Historical Women Figures
First woman to inspire bus boycotts
Rosa Parks
In what year did more than 200,000 people march to Washington D.C.
1963
She was the first black manager for NASA
Dorothy Vaughan
A very famous relatively young poet that uses a lot of hand gestures and is amazing.
Amanda Gorman
He was a scholar and minister who led the civil rights movement
MLK
First African American woman to work at NASA as a mathematician
Katherine Johnson
First black Commander-in-Chief
hmmmm Barak Obama
Nation's first African American woman judge
Jane Bolin
Famous for her inspiring poems and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010.
Maya Angelou
She is a founding member of Dream Defenders
Ciara Taylor
First African American to enter an all-white school in 1960
Ruby Bridges
First known African American child to be born in America
William Tucker
He invented CAD
Walt Braithwaite
He is known for writing the poems “Our Martyred Soldiers” and “On The River” at 16 years old, which were published in Dayton’s The Herald newspaper.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
He protected peanut farmers
First African American woman to win Wimbledon (everyone obviously knows what this is)
Althea Gibson
In which year did Congress ban the importation of slaves
1808
First African American Woman CEO
Ursula Burns
She was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize
Gwendolyn Brooks
Teen who refused to give up her bus seat
Claudette Colvin
She was an organizer for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances E.W. Harper
Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson
She was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the US
Dr. Marie M Daly
His most famous poem was Omeros from 1990
Derek Wallcott
She was the first African American woman from any country to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the Summer Olympics in London (1948)
Alice Coachman