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Famous Inventors
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He was a prominent scientist and inventor in the early 1900s who developed hundreds of products using sweet potatoes, soy beans, and the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
This popular American genre was started in the late 1970s in the South Bronx, New York and was innovated by notable artists such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa, and Kurtis Blow.
What is Hip Hop music?
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She is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, a former fashion model, and beauty queen. She was the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her 2001 film, "Monster's Ball"
Who is Halle Berry?
100
Co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He was a famous civil rights activist and political revolutionary. He received a PhD in social philosophy and was shot dead in 1989 by Tyrone Robinson, a narcotics street dealer
Who is Dr. Huey P. Newton?
100
He was one of the first African American electronic engineers, and he created the first video game console, and the first video game cartridge. There would be no Xbox or Playstation if it were not for this man.
Who is Gerald A. Lawson?
200
He is a retired neurosurgeon who is most known for his work separating conjoined twins. He revolutionized the field of neurosurgery. He is also a former 2016 presidential candidate
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
200
A music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, and Ella Fitzgerald are all known for their contributions to this style of music
What is Jazz Music?
200
He is an award winning producer, director, writer, and actor best known for his work directing, producing, and starring in films surrounding race relations in America. Best known films are "Do the Right Thing," "She's Gotta Have It," and "Jungle Fever"
Who is Spike Lee?
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He was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and the Pan-African movement. He was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, then later became the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally was the leader of the All-African People's revolutionary Party
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
200
He was a trail blazer for African American inventors, he is most known for his work creating the traffic lights we use today.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
300
Three African American women who worked at NASA and served as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit during the "Space Race"
Who is Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
300
He is a record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian. Most known for becoming the most Grammy nominated artist in history with 79 nominations and 27 wins.
Who is Quincy Jones?
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She is an award winning film, television, and stage actress. She is currently 92 years old however has most recently been in tv shows such as ABC's "How to Get Away With Murder" She's best known for her roles in movies such as "The Help," "Idlewild," and the "Autobiography of Jane Pittman" She has won a total of 38 awards, and have been nominated for at least 38 more.
Who is Cecily Tyson?
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She was the first African American congresswoman in 1968. Four years later, she became the first major-party black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
300
He was a nuclear and molecular physicist who invented over 20 products and machines that have changed the world. He is best known for creating the imaging x-ray spectrometer, and laser drilling.
Who is George Alcorn?
400
He performed the first successful heart surgery. Founded the Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first black owned hospital in America.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
400
He was a poet, novelist, playwright, thinker, and social activist during the Harlem Renaissance. Won the Harmon gold medal for literature in 1930 for his first novel, "Not without Laughter."
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
He is an actor, filmmaker, and director. He is 90 years old and was the first black Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1964. He has won a total of 26 awards and has had over 40 nominations. He's best known for his roles in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"and "Lillies of the Field"
Who is Sidney Poitier?
400
She was a legal advocate in the Civil Rights Movement, she became the first female African American federal judge in 1966. She won notable civil rights victories in the U.S. Supreme court representing Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Constance Baker Motely?
400
He was an African American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the United States.
Who is Charles Drew?
500
She was the first African American woman to travel to space when she went into orbit on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. She is an engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
500
He was first generation American, his father was hatian, mother was puerto rican. He was one of the greatest Neo-Expressionist painters of the 1900s. He is credited with bringing the African American and Latino experience in the elite art world. He never finished highschool and died at the age of 27 due to a drug overdose.
Who is Jean-Michael Basquiat?
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She was the first black woman to write a play that performed on Broadway in 1958, "Raisin in the Sun"
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
500
He was a black leader, educator, and diplomat. He was the first African-American lawyer in Ohio and the first black person to be elected into public office in the United States.
Who is John Mercer Langston?
500
Lewis Howard Latimer was an inventor best known for his contributions to extending the life of the light bulb, and overall making its use more effective and efficient, while working with Thomas Edison. He also worked with Alexander Graham Bell to improve the telephone and assisted with the patenting of both inventions.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?