Black Sports History
The most decorated gymnast of all time
Who is Simone Biles?
The product that led to Madam C.J. Walker becoming the first Black self-made millionaire
What is a hair growth product? (Madam C.J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower)
The first Black woman in space
Who is Mae Jemison?
What group of students was famous for challenging school segregation in the deep South?
The Little Rock Nine
Who is Mike Tyson?
The inventor of the potato chip
Who is George "Crum" Speck?
The singer remembered as the "Queen of Jazz" who was the first Black/African American woman to win a Grammy
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The country founded by freed slaves from the United States and the Caribbean
What is Liberia?
The person who wrote, "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
The professional baseball player who holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762 home runs
Who is Barry Bonds?
The first surgeon to successfully complete open-heart surgery
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
The best actor of the 21st century so far according to the New York Times
Who is Denzel Washington?
The first person to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
This group's free breakfast for children program forced the government to expand its own school food programs
Who is The Black Panther Party?
The number of gold medals Jesse Owens won at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
What is 4 gold medals?
The inventor who was awarded some 35 patents for electrical inventions from 1884 to 1890 and was known as "the Black Edison"
Who is Granville T. Woods?
The creator of hip-hop music
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
The first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and founder of the Niagara Movement?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Before Rosa Parks, this 15-year-old was arrested in Montgomery, AL for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The Black football player who became the first Assistant Attorney General in the United States in 1903
Who is William H. Lewis?
This mathematician and entrepreneur is often called "the Godfather of Black Silicon Valley," and developed a minicomputer for Hewlett Packard
The Oscar's category that has had the most Black nominees in Oscar history
What is Best Music, Original Song
These airmen completed 1,578 missions during World War II
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
The activist who petitioned the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate charges that the US was violating the human rights and civil rights of African Americans
Malcolm X