African American Firsts
Quotes
African Americans in Government
Civil Rights Movement
Famous African Americans
100
He was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.
Who is Charlie Sifford?
100
She said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “The Greatest”. He was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th-century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
200
He was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
200
He said, "The time is always right to do what is right".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
This Supreme Court case decreed that a slave was his master's property and that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This is the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells, and Mary White Ovington.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
Who is ranked as the second-best-selling female artist of the 21st century?
Who is Rihanna?
300
He was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
She wrote, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
He was known as one of the Nation of Islam's most effective ministers until he rejected an anti-white philosophy after a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products. She was the first female American millionaire who had not derived her wealth through marriage or inheritance.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
400
This author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Her resume includes the novel, The Bluest Eye.
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
This famous athlete said, "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
400
She was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for U.S. President and the first African American woman elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
400
He was a dominant leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and he won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
He was the first African American millionaire in the United States. He is considered one of the founding fathers of San Francisco.
Who is William Leidesdorff?
500
This was the year when the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves.
What is 1619?
500
She said, "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." She is the first African American woman to travel into space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
500
He was the first African American elected president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing?
500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver?