The Arts
Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win this award?
Academy Award for Best Actor
The number 42 was retired in all of baseball in 1997 in honor of this major league player who broke baseball's color barrier.
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American woman in space?
Mae Jemison
She was a former slave and advocate for abolition, temperance and women's rights
Sojourner Truth
This aviation pioneer was the first African American woman to have a pilot's license and fly a plane.
Bessie Coleman
Louis Armstrong is an American trumpeter and singer and one of the most influential musicians in this genre?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpZq3eKengA&list=RDVe75y5NbqL4&index=6
Jazz
Wilma Rudolph overcame what disease and late went on to earn gold medals in track in the Olympics?
Polio
Katherine Johnson helped send the first astronauts into space when she worked for what agency?
NASA
Booker T Washington fought for educational opportunities for African Americans and founded what school?
Tuskegee Institute.
He is a civil rights activist and member of the US House of Representatives; he was one of the leaders of the Selma March in the 1960s.
John Lewis
Which American poet and Presidential medal of freedom winner is famous for writing:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. "
Maya Angelou
Jesse Owens made history by winning gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in what country?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGM8GyzXn0
Germany
Lewis Latimer helped make what item more practical for everyday use?
The lightbulb
Frederick Douglass was an unofficial adviser to what US President?
Lincoln
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
What nickname did Ella Fitzgerald earn as the popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century.
First Lady in Song
Misty Copeland is the first African American Female Principal Dancer with what prestigious ballet company?
American Ballet Theatre
This person was an agricultural expert at Tuskegee Institute and invented many things including: peanut butter, rubbing oil, skin lotions and soap.
Booker T Washington
She was the First African American in Congress and first African American to seek the presidential nomination
Shirley Chisholm
"Dream Deferred" and "Harlem" are two of the most famous poems by this man.
Langston Hughes
This African American author of books like The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1987), Nobel Prize in Literature (1993) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Toni Morrison.
Frederick Fritz Pollard was the first African American head coach in the NFL. What team did he coach?
Akron Pros
Madame CJ Walker
She was a journalist and editor of an African American newspaper; among other things, she published the names of people involved in lynchings in the South
Ida Wells Barnett
Ayanna Pressley is the first African American female representative in the House of Representatives from which state?
Massachusetts