Historical Figures
This leader delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963.
Who is MLK Jr?
He became the first Black president of the United States in 2009.
Who is Barack Obama?
She is known as the 'Queen of Soul.'
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This agricultural scientist promoted crop rotation to restore soil health.
Who is George Washington Carver?
He was the first Black Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson
Holds the record for the most Grammy Awards
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He invented the traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on March 2, 1955.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
She was the first Black woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
First black woman to become a Supreme Court justice
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
The year that the Little Rock Nine integrated into Central High School
1957
He invented the first successful blood bank.
Who is Charles Drew?
Adopted Malcom X’s slogan of “Freedom by any means necessary” and established the Black Panthers
Who is Bobby Seale?
This woman was the first Black female self-made millionaire in America.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
First African-American Marvel Studios director
Who is Ryan Coogler?
This 1921 event destroyed a thriving Black community known as 'Black Wall Street.'
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
She helped develop technology used for NASA space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
She helped desegregate the University of Alabama in 1963 by becoming its first African-American student.
Who is Autherine Lucy?
He was the first Black man to earn a PhD from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois
His art focused on divisions such as integration vs segregation, wealth vs poverty, and inner vs outer; he maintained a larger role in the neo-expressionist movement
Who is Jean-Michael Basquiat?
This intellectual and cultural movement of African-American exploded in the 1920s and produced icons such as Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance
This legal scholar helped found Critical Race Theory.
Kimberlé Crenshaw