Black First Achievements
The first African American in the 20th Century to play for a team in the MLB in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The movement that sought to end segregation and discrimination in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
What is the Civil Right's Movement?
This 2018 marvel film featured African Heritage and Afrofuturism.
What is Black Panther?
Born into slavery, he would go on to become an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This woman gave up her seat before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The first predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA Championship in 1966.
Who is Texas Western Miners?
This organization was founded to advance the rights of Black Americans through the courts.
What is the NAACP?
This music genre was born in the Bronx during the 1970’s.
What is Hip-Hop?
This person was the inventor of the modern traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
The first black woman millionaire who built a hair care empire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
The first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Kentaji Brown Jackson?
This law passed in 1964 that banned discrimination in public spaces.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This African American poet wrote “Still I Rise” and “Phenomenal Woman”.
Who is Maya Angelou?
He was the first African American to receive a patent and discover the process called dry-scouring, which is known as modern day dry cleaning.
Who is Thomas L. Jennings?
This person invented the portable air conditioning unit for trucks in 1938.
Who is Fred Jones?
The first African American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world in 1908.
Who is Jack Johnson?
This military unit was the first African American aviators in the United States Armed Forces.
Who is the Tuskegee Airmen?
The novel “Beloved” was written by this author.
Who is Toni Morrison?
If you enjoy home security, you have this person to thank. They invented the first home security system in 1966.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
She was the first black woman to be elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The first African American to play as a QB in the NFL in 1953.
The group founded in 1966 that emphasized black pride and community programs.
Who is the Black Panther Party?
This African American singer was known as the “Queen of Soul”.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
A sample of this woman’s cells have been used to advance medical research and used to test the effects of radiation, how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio vaccine.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This person was on the founding exploratory team that discovered the North Pole.
Who is Matthew Henson?