Ladies First
First female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States.
Who is Maggie Lena Walker?
Founder of of the National Negro Business League.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Inventor of the first clock in America.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
First African-American whose signature appeared on U.S. paper currency
Who is Blanche K. Bruce?
First African American author to protest the treatment of Whites against Blacks. Author of Native Son and Black Boy.
Who is Richard Wright?
First Black female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
Entrepreneur, businessman and landowner in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the first African-American "millionaire" in the South
Who is Robert Church, Sr.
Inventor whose name is synonymous with the "real thing."
Who is Elijah McCoy?
First African-American ordained as an Episcopal priest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Who is Absalom Jones?
Shared lead vocals at age 7 in the family band.
Who is Michael Jackson?
American civil aviator, known as "Queen Bess."
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Founder of Ebony and Jet magazines.
Who was John Johnson?
Discovered hundreds of uses for previously useless vegetables and fruits, principally the peanut
Who is George Washington Carver?
First African American to star in an international motion picture
Who is Josephine Baker?
First African American to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
Educator and stateswoman, in 1938, hosted the White House Conference on Negro Women and children.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known as the "Potato King of the World" by 1902
Who is Junius Groves?
Inventor of the gas mask and created a Hair Refining Company with his name.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
First African-American to win an Oscar
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
The "real" Lone Ranger. He was the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River.
Who is Bass Reeves?
In 1887, she sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company for $500 and won.
Who is Ida B. Wells
Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) in 1914.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Invented Super Soaker while researching thermal energy transfer engines; worked with NASA; holder of over 80 patents.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
First known African-American published author: poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries".
Who is Jupiter Hammon?
Not one person, but a cultural, social, and artistic explosion in the 1920s and 1930s. Think Langston Hughes, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Zora Neal Hurston, and Alain Locke.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?