Black Scientists
An American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, science communicator, and presenter of Cosmos
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson
At 22, she is the youngest poet recruited to help mark a presidential inauguration in US history
Who is Amanda Gorman
This 14-year-old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States
Who is Barack Obama
She has won the most Grand Slam titles of all time during her career, with a total of 23 Grand Slam tournament victories.
Who is Serena Williams
Best known for her major contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers, her work was recently recognized in the movie "Hidden Figures"
Who is Katherine Johnson
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou
The landmark 1896 US Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as the first African American justice on the US Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
She achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny's Child. As a solo artist, she has become one of the best-selling music artists of all time
Who is Beyonce Knowles
An American agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," she was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman
An escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement and the first African-American formally nominated for US President
Who is Frederick Douglass
The self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay
Who is Muhammad Ali
Best-known not for his contributions to science, as a physicist, but his tragic death during the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion in 1986
Who is Ronald E. McNair
An African American writer whose poems, columns, novels and plays made him a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
Who is Langston Hughes
I was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up my seat to a white woman.
Who is Claudette Colvin
She made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia
Who is Stacey Abrams
The first black superhero in mainstream American comic books
Who is the Black Panther
Best-known for her successful treatment of those suffering from Leprosy
Who is Alice Ball
What famous piece did Scott Joplin, the “King of Ragtime”, compose that is named after a social club in Sedalia, Missouri where Joplin played piano?
A) The Entertainer
B) Weeping Willow
C) Maple Leaf Rag
D) The Cascades
What is Maple Leaf Rag
Who was the first African-American to be on a US postage stamp?
A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) Booker T. Washington
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Sojourner Truth
B) Who is Booker T. Washington
One of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, he continued to fight for people's rights since joining Congress in 1987 until his death in 2020
Who is John Lewis
The first African-American woman to be nominated for Best Director by the Golden Globe Awards for her film "Selma"? (also known for titles including "13th" and "When They See Us")
Who is Ava DeVurney