Black Hollywood
The first black Horror film that debuted in 1972.
Blacula
The full name of the first African American to play in Major League Baseball
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
The first African American designer to work at Ford Motor Company.
McKinley Thompson Jr.
The first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire.
Madam C.J. Walker
Was referred to as "MY President" by the African American community
Barack Obama- First black president in 2008
The first Black man to win an Oscar in 1964.
Sidney Poitier.
The first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion Boxing title
Jack Johnson
The age and year that Phyllis Wheatley became the first African American to become a published author
12 years old in 1773
Garret Morgan's most prominent invention that was patented in 1922.
The Traffic Signal.
The first African American billionaire that founded BET.
Robert Johnson.
The first African American performer to win an Academy award
Hattie McDaniel-known for her portrayal of a loyal slave in Gone With The Wind
Two African American men to become the first to play in the NFL
Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall
The first Black woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
The individual responsible for unintentionally creating the first potato chip in 1853.
George Crum
The first Black artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year
Stevie Wonder
The first black superhero film.
The Meteor Man.
First black coach to win the Super Bowl
Tony Dungy
The first woman to refuse giving up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
Claudette Colvin- Arrested 9 months prior to Rosa Parks
The African American woman responsible for designing the first ever home security system.
Marie Van Brittan Brown.
First African-American to host his own TV Show
Nat King Cole
The first black screen writer to win an Oscar.
Jordan Peele.
First woman athlete to have an athletic shoe named after her.
Sheryl Swoopes
The first black man to become a lawyer is 1854.
John Mercer Langston
The famous toy of the 1990's that Lonnie Johnson developed while working at NASA.
The Super Soaker Water Gun
First black artist to have a video on MTV
Michael Jackson