Civil Rights
He organized the 1963 March on Washington and delivered the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
This gymnast became the most decorated American gymnast in history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
This singer is known as the "Queen of Soul" and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who was Aretha Franklin?
He was the first African American to serve as President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This famous abolitionist and orator wrote Narrative of the Life of ______, an American Slave?
Who was Frederick Douglass?
She was known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Who was Rosa Parks?
He was known as "The Greatest" and was a three-time heavyweight boxing champion.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
This was the first Black woman to win an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her role in How to Get Away with Murder.
Who is Viola Davis?
She became the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S., founding a haircare empire in the early 1900s.
Who was Madam C.J. Walker?
She wrote the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of American literature's most influential memoirs.
Who was Maya Angelou?
The Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in 1954?
What was the Brown v. Board of Education.
This NBA legend played 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and won five championships.
Who was Kobe Bryant?
This 2018 Marvel film became the first superhero movie with a predominantly Black cast to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
What was Black Panther?
He broke the MLB color barrier in 1947, becoming the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
She became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who was Toni Morrison?
The organization that was founded in 1909 and is the oldest civil rights organization in the United States.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This Jamaican sprinter became the first person to win back-to-back Olympic 100m and 200m titles (2012, 2016).
Who is Usain Bolt?
This legendary filmmaker became the first Black person to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, for Get Out.
Who is Jordan Peele?
This astronaut became the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
This African American author wrote The Color Purple, which later became a film and a Broadway musical.
Who is Alice Walker?
This 14-year-old African American youth was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, galvanizing the civil rights movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
These two sisters have dominated women’s tennis and won multiple Grand Slam titles since the late 1990s. *HINT: they play tennis
Who are Venus and Serena Williams?
This singer and actress sang "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " and became one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Who was Whitney Houston?
This singer is remembered as the ‘queen of jazz.’
Who was Ella Fitzgerald?
This contemporary writer won a National Book Award for Between the World and Me, a letter to his son about race in America.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?