Brawn, Brains, and Big Bucks
Major League Baseball player.
Jackie Robinson
He invented the three light traffic signal.
Garret Morgan
A struggle for justice and equality for African Americans comprised of many different events that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Civil Rights Movement
She and her sister both play tennis but she was the first to win at Wimbledon.
Venus Williams
He brought us all joy on the big screen and was the first Black man to win an Oscar.
Sidney Poitier
She was a self Made Millionaire entrepreneur and owner of her own hair care line and beauty school.
Sarah Breedlove/Madam CJ Walker
Sarah Boone patented this invention in 1858
Ironing Board
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem.
Harlem Renaissance
She is a former Nasa Astronaut and was the first Black woman to journey into outer space.
Dr. Mae Jemison
In 1954 Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who later turned into the first Black Supreme Court Justice won which landmark case that started the integration of schools.
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Double Jeopardy
Rhode Scholar-a holder of one of numerous scholarships founded under the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that can be used at Oxford University for two or three years and are open to candidates from the Commonwealth of Nations and the U.S.
Life would be a little less brighter without is his carbon filament invention.
Lewis Latimer
A protest of Jim Crow Laws of segregation on interstates.
Freedom Riders 1961
Gwendolyn Brooks was an exceptional writer. She was the first African American woman to win this award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievement, and musical composition
Pulitzer Prize
Barack Obama was the first African American major party nominee and first African American President of the United States, but before that he was a senator in this state.
Illinois
John Abbot was the father of Black Journalism and a self-made millionaire. He founded this newspaper in 1905 that is still available online today.
The Chicago Defender
No need to hold these open anymore thanks to Alexander Miles.
Automated elevator doors
Double Jeopardy
Black Wall Street
The city and state that Claudette and Rosa refused to give up their seats on the bus.
Montgomery Alabama
Langston Hughes
He flew 144 combat missions, 65 over North Vietnam, as a member of the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Cam Ranh Bay during the Vietnam war before he joined NASA.
Guion Bluford
Frederick McKinley Jones made it cool to keep your food in this.
Refrigerated Truck
This event in 1965 showed the brutality that African Americans faced as they tried to exercise the right to vote.
Bloody Sunday
She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
Shirley Chisolm
He wrote the Negro National Anthem.
James Weldon Johnson