Firsts in Black History
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Tiger Woods?
This person said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The 44th and first Black President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
The main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
She recently broke the record of winning the most Grammy's of any woman in history.
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
The first afro-Latina actress to have four films cross the $2 billion box office threshold.
Who is Zoe Saldaña?
This person said, "The time is always right to do what is right."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She refused to give up her seat on a public bus which sparked a boycott in Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
She was a famous Afro-Latina Cuban singer.
Who is Celia Cruz?
The year when the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619?
This person 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?
The Supreme Court case that stated segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was 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?
This amazing athlete is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The first afro-Latino superstar in Major League Baseball. (And a state park in the Bronx is named after him!)
Who is Roberto Clemente?
This person said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This became an official federal holiday in 2021 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the US.
What is Juneteenth?
This organization was founded by WEB Du Bois and many others to end racial inequality.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This afro-Latina actress is best known for her Golden Globe Award-winning role in the television show "Pose," and the first trans woman to win a golden globe.
Who is MJ Rodriguez?
The first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This person said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Who is Morgan Freeman?
This Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The first black student to successfully enroll at the University of Mississippi which caused President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops to restore the peace.
Who is James Meredith?
He 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?