Sports
Who was the first person of color to play on a major league baseball team?
Which actor of color has been in numerous projects, including "Stranger Things"?
Caleb McLaughlin
Who was known as "The Black Mamba" and played with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Kobe Bryant
Which person was the first African American child to be integrated into the all-white school William Frantz Elementary School?
Ruby Bridges
Which agriculturalist found 300 different ways to use peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Which basketball player holds 4 world records and won 3 MVP awards?
Magic Johnson
Which comedian has started a foundation to provide scholarships for children?
Kevin Hart
Who was the first African American U.S. president?
Barack Obama
Which man led and helped organize elements of the Civil Rights movement, including Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and the Selma to Montgomery Marches? (archives.gov)
John Lewis
Crispus Attucks
Who was the first person of color to play in the NBA?
Earl Lloyd
Which person is known as "The King of Pop" and started out as a singing group with his brothers?
Michael Jackson
Which athlete is also known as "the world' greatest" in boxing?
Muhammad Ali
Which activist was part of the Black Panther Party and fought to release people from prison during the civil rights movement?
Who was the first woman of color to get a pilot's license?
Bessie Coleman
Which jockey won the Kentucky Derby in 1890 and 1891?
Isaac Burns Murphy
Who was a jazz playing trumpeter and the original singer of "What a Wonderful World"?
Who was the first African American supreme court justice of the United States and fought against segregation?
Thurgood Marshall
Which enslaved woman disguised as a sickly white man to escape to freedom to England?
Ellen Craft
Who was the first African American millionaire by creating her own heated hair comb?
Madame CJ Walker
Which man won four gold medals at the 1936 World Olympics in Berlin, Germany?
Jesse Owens
Which jazz singer has won 13 grammys and is known for her duet's Louis Armstrong?
Ella Fitzgerald
Who was the famous poet, novelist, playwright, who wrote about African American ways of life?
Langston Hughes
Which abolitionist taught himself how to read and write and wrote My Bondage and My Freedom?
Frederick Douglass
Who was the first woman of color to go into space?
Mae Jemison