Inventors
Name that person
Music
Activism
Abbreviations
Local Heroes
100
Developed specialized hair care products for African Americans and popularized the hot comb.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
100
Celebrated for his pursuit of racial justice.
Who is Malcom X
100
This song was adopted by the NAACP
What is the Black National Anthem
100
Known for leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and infamously beaten by police during the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Who is John Lewis
100
BLM
Black Lives Matter
100
Eatonville native and author of Their Eyes were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
200
Known as an agricultural scientist and inventor who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops.
Who is George Washington Carver
200
The most decorated gymnast in history
Who is Simon Biles?
200
This genre of music was influenced by work songs and spirituals from slaves in the deep South, beginning after the Civil War.
What are the blues
200
Known for rejecting a bus driver's order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
200
HBCU
Historically Black College University
200
Opened the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, which eventually became Bethune-Cookman University.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
300
The inventor of the first traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan
300
The first Black male actor to be nominated (1958) for an Academy Award.
Who is Sidney Poitier
300
Made history as the first black women to win a GRAMMY
Who is Ella Fitzgerald
300
The nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
300
The first Black woman to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
Who is Erin Jackson
400
Created the first folding bed cabinet
Who is Sarah E. Goode
Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. She was the fourth known African American women to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885 for her cabinet bed.
400
Known as the first female Black billionaire
Who is Shelia Johnson
400
The first black women to be accepted into the rock n' roll hall of fame in 1987.
Who is Aretha Franklin.
400
Name this civil rights attorney.
Who is Ben Crump
400
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union
400
The first Black woman elected to Congress from Florida.
Who is Carrie P. Meek