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He ranks as one of the greatest American inventors. He made 325 products from peanuts including shampoo, soap, and coffee. He also used sweet potatoes to make rubber and paint. These new products helped Southern farmers protect their lands and sell more products
Who is George Washington Carver
100
Before this whites and blacks played on different teams until ________ was the first African-American player in a major league baseball team and joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson
100
Having his own TV Show named after him, this person also found Operation PUSH and Rainbow Coalition--organizations which work to make sure that all Americans have a fair chance no matter what their sex or race. He even ran for president twice!
Who is Jesse Jackson
100
She is s an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for hosting her own internationally popular talk show from 1986 to 2011 named after her.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
100
He was the first black actor to win an Academy Award for best Actor and is the only Black actor to have two Oscars
Who is Denzel Washington
200
He blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, a revamped sewing machine and an improved traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan
200
This retired American professional basketball player and former rapper is best known for his 7 ft. 1 in. stature. He has also appeared on many film projects, mostly playing himself.
Who is Shaquille O'Neal
200
Best known as a leader in the fight against slavery. Being a slave himself this famous figure wrote many books and published a newspaper titled "North Star" to explain why slavery was wrong. He became known as the "Trumpet for Freedom."
Who is Frederick Douglas
200
First known as Araminta Ross this former slave helped lead more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
This movie is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson--3 brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit
What is Hidden Figures
300
This famous inventor is best known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun, which has ranked among the world's top 20 best-selling toys every year since its release.
Who is Lonnie Johnson
300
This famous Olympian was once the fastest runner on the planet. He won four gold medals in track events in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens
300
One of the most famous jazz musicians, he changed the way people listened to music. You may have heard some of his songs including "Mood Indigo" and "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Who is Duke Ellington
300
This brave figure helped spark the Civil Rights Movement when in Montgomery, Alabama she refused to get give up her seat to a white person.
Who is Rosa Parks
300
He was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Best known as the "King of Pop"
Who is Micheal Jackson
400
He invented the Carbon Filament For The Light Bulb
Who is Lewis Latimer
400
The Women's Tennis Association has ranked this famous tennis player world No. 1 in singles on seven occasions
Who is Serena Williams
400
Probably the most famous African-American writer ever, he is best known for his poems but also wrote many novels, essays, articles, a newspaper column and even a Broadway play.
Langston Hughes
400
She became the first African-American woman to work in space as an astronaut. She traveled on board the space shuttle Endeavour and did experiments on gravity.
Who is Mae Jemison
400
She is one of the first African-American children to attend an integrated school in the Deep South. At only age 6, she is selected to attend an all-white school in New Orleans, causing an uproar in the racially divided region. This movie is shares her name
Who is Ruby Bridges
500
Anyone who owns a Playstation, Wii or Xbox should know this inventor. He created the first home video-gaming Console
Who is Gerald A. Lawson
500
She is the only female figure skater in history to do a backflip (a thoroughly illegal and dangerous move*) – and in so doing, pioneered a move named after her where one does a split in midair and lands on one foot. The other three skaters who’ve done a backflip (all male) have landed on both feet.
Who is Surya Bonaly
500
She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature--the most important award a writer can receive. "Beloved" and "Paradise" are a few of her works.
Who is Toni Morrison
500
He is the first person African-American Artic Explorer and the first person to reach the North Pole
Who is Matthew Henson
500
This famous singer was the first African-American woman to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera. Once she was not allowed to sing at the Constitutional Hall in Washington D.C. because of her race. Instead, she sang in the Lincoln Memorial and 75,000 people came to hear her.
Who is Marian Anderson