Black History
What is Juneteenth?
The first Black baseball player who played for the LA Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The lawn mower
Who was John A. Burr?
Known for his role as Black Panther in Black Panther
Who was Chadwick Boseman?
The Queen of Soul
Who was Aretha Franklin?
The amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The first Black girl to go to intergrated into an all white school and is STILL alive today.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Made Refrigerated Trucks
Who was Frederick McKinley Jones?
the first Black person to own a major production company.
Who is Tyler Perry?
The first Black Artist to win album of the year at the grammy's in 1974?
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Supported the abolishment of slavery and promised 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves (Specific President)
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A Black Nationalist leader who advocated for Black Empowerment, self defense and pride. That Black Americans should fight for the freedom by any means necessary. Even changing his last name to X so rejection of the slave master name and reverence to ancestors who were taken from Africa
Who is Malcolm X?
Invented the three light traffic signal
Who was Garrett Morgan?
The first Black woman to win a Leading Role Oscar (2001).
Who is Halle Berry?
The first African-American woman to publish a poerty book
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
The first state to abolish slavery in 1777
What is Vermont?
The first Black woman in Space
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
Invented the home security system
Who was Marie Van Brittan Brown?
the first Black actress to appear on a television commercial with a speaking role.
Who was Gail Fisher?
The first Black sculptor of both Native and African American descent.
Who is Edmonia Lewis?
The first country to get slaves from Africa
What is Portugal?
Was a runaway slave herself but she went back to the South to save other family, friends, and slaves who wanted freedom. Leading troops during the civil war.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Performed the first successful open heart surgery?
Who was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Who was the first Black person to win an oscar?
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
The first Black painter who even got their worked purchase to be part of the White House Collection
Who was Henry Ossawa Tanner?