Famous African Americans
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
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
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
By any means necessary
Who is Malcolm X
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
Who is 2pac.
He was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the first Black secretary of state?
Who is Colin L. Powell