Science
Who is the inventor that created the three position traffic signal in 1923.
Who is Garrett Morgan
This man was the first African American to play major league baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson
In 1964,this prominent civil rights leader won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. He also led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This poet who passed away in 2014 was best known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou
This man was the first African American president in U.S. history
Who is Barack Obama
This self taught, Baltimore County born, almanac author and farmer created the first wooden clock in 1753.
Who is Benjamin Banneker
In 1960, this woman became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics.
Who is Wilma Rudolph
This civil rights activist was jailed for refusing to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks
This American novelist known for his book Go Tell It On The Mountain became an expatriate and moved to Paris at the age of 24.
Who is James Baldwin
This Baltimore born lawyer became the first African American supreme court justice in 1967.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
This scientist and inventor did not invent peanut butter but he did promote over 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver
This man was the first African American to play major league baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson
She was the first African-American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana. She is also the subject of a 1964 painting called The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell.
Who is Ruby Bridges
This major poet was a central figure in the harlem renaissance worked to portray the joys and hardships of working-class African Americans in his writings. He wrote the poem “I, Too, Sing America.”
Who is Langston Hughes
This woman became the first African American woman in Congress in 1968 and was the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
This women became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour
Who is Mae Jemison
This man was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. There is a tennis stadium named after him in Queens, NY.
Who is Arther Ashe
This African American man was a leader in the civil rights movement. His autobiography was published after his death in 1965 and became a bestseller.
Who is Malcolm X
This novelist won the Newbery Honor for her book Brown Girl Dreaming. In 2018 and 2019 she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress.
Who is Jacqueline Woodson
This woman was fluent in three languages and was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.
Who is Mary Church Terrell
This african american womans HeLa cell line is one of the most important cell lines in medical research. To this day they are still used in medical research and were used in the development of the polio vaccine.
Who is Henrietta Lacks
This American tennis player has won 23 major singles titles, the most by any man or woman in the Open Era. She has been ranked number 1 in the world on eight separate occasions.
Who is Serena Williams
This civil rights activists and lawyer who created the word “Jane Crow” was the inspiration behind Ruth Bader Ginsberg's work on gender discrimination against women.
Pauli Murray
In 1988, this novelist won the Pulitzer Prize for her book called Beloved.
Who is Toni Morrison
This woman was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department.
Who is Jane Bolin