She was the first African American woman to serve as United States Secretary of State, and the first African American and the first woman to serve as the President’s National Security Advisor.
Who is Condoleezza Rice
100
He is credited with performing the first open heart surgery on July 9, 1853.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams
100
He broke the color barrier in baseball and became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
Who is Jackie Robinson
100
This writer and sociologist was co-founder of the NAACP, and was one of the most famous social activists during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois
200
In 1967, he became the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
200
He was an American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of lives of the Allied forces.
Who is Charles Drew?
200
Also a social activist and philanthropist, he was the first boxer to win the world heavyweight championship three times.
What is Muhammed Ali
200
Credited as one of the founding fathers of the Harlem Renaissance, this playwright/poet/novelist became famous for his first published poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”.
What is Langston Hughes
300
In 1998, he became the first African American general in the United States Army.
Who is Benjamin Oliver Davis
300
He invented the “SuperSoaker” in 1989.
Who is Lonnie Johnson
300
This Olympic track star won three gold medals and two silver medals, and still holds world records in 100-meter and 200-meter races, which were set in 1988.
What is Florence Griffith-Joyner
300
This theatre rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, during which time it was reputed to only hire black entertainers; of these were James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday.
What is the Apollo Theatre
400
In 1993, this Illinois native became (and still is, to date) the first African American woman elected to the United States Senate.
Who is Carol Braun
400
He invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for pacemakers.
Who is Otis Boykin
400
Following her careers in college and professional basketball, she became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters in 1985.
Who is Lynette Woodard
400
This was the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance, which was called a literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is Harlem, NY
500
This foreign policy advisor became the first African American woman to serve as an ambassador to the United Nations.
Who is Susan Rice
500
After completing the STS-8 mission aboard the Challenger, this engineer and astronaut became the first black man in space.
Who is Guoin Bluford
500
In 1961, he broke the color barrier in golf when he became the first African American to play in the PGA tour.
Who is Charlie Sifford
500
This official publication of the National Urban League employed Harlem Renaissance writers and editors, published poems and short stories by African Americans, and promoted African American literature.