Loving Our History

Firsts

100

First African American President

Barack Obama

200

First African American Woman to win Nobel Peace Prize

Toni Morrison

300

First Black Greek Letter Organization

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc (1906)

400

First African American to play Major League Baseball, ending 60 years of segregated leagues.

Jackie Robinson

500

First African American to win a Grammy

Ella Fitzgerald

Inventors

100

First African American woman to invent hair care products

Madame CJ Walker

200

First African American to invent products produced by peanuts

George Washington Carver

300

Invented the clock

Benjamin Banneker

400

Invented the Traffic Light

Garrett Morgan

500

NASA's first black female engineer

Mary Jackson

African American Women

100

First African American Billionaire

Oprah Winfrey

200

First Black Woman to travel into space

Mae Jemison

300

Famous African American Poet

Maya Angelou

400

First Black Woman Elected in US Congress

Shirley Chisolm

500

African American tv producer and writer responsible for Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder.

Who is Shonda Rhimes

History

100

Freed Slaves Using the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

200

Who declared that all men are created equal, and declared the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

300

Refused to give up her seat after being told to move to the back of a bus because of her race

Rosa Parks

400

Who wrote the "I Have a Dream" speech?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

500

The Northern and Southern States fought in what War?

What is the Civil War

For The Culture

100

Rapper/Artist that wrote the poem "A Rose That Grew From Concrete".

Tupac Amaru Shakur

200

What name was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City?

Harlem Renaissance

300

Present day movement that supports the efforts against violence and social injustices to African American people.

Black Lives Matter Movement

400

First Male Black Owned Film/Production Company

Tyler Perry Studios

500

Two basketball players scoring 60 or more points in five recorded games of their careers.

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant