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Famous Quotes
African-American Firsts
Inventors
Hollywood
Civil Rights Movement
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"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
He was the first African-American US Supreme Court Justice, serving from 1967-1991.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
His inventions included the discovery of over 300 different uses for peanuts – such as making cooking oil, axle grease and printer's ink.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
With 4 for Best Actor, and 2 for Supporting Actor, he has the most Academy Award nominations for an African-American actor.
Who is Denzel Washington?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was one of the most famous catalyst for the civil rights movements of the 1960's.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
200
He was the first Black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy. (1961)
Who is Ernie Davis?
200
A self-taught mathematician, astronomer, & surveyor, he was instrumental in laying out what would become the U.S. capitol, Washington DC, and also invented the almanac.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
200
He was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. (1963)
Who is Sidney Poitier?
200
This organization was founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California, to uplift, educate, and protect its black community in the midst of rising police brutality. Their 10-point program included free breakfast and health services for children, eventually establishing chapters in cities across the nation.
What is The Black Panther Party.
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"I've missed more than 9.000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over, and over, and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Who is Michael Jordan?
300
She was the first Black Miss America? (1984)
Who is Vanessa Williams?
300
He developed the “lubricating cup” for steam engines, which kept locomotives constantly lubricated, preventing frequent stops and overheating. He patented the lubricating cup in 1872. It represented the most profitable of his more than 58 patents, which included a folding ironing board and an automatic sprinkler.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
300
She was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. (2001)
Who is Halle Berry?
300
A giant of the civil rights movements, he was one of the original Freedom Riders, helped form and was a chairman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was an architect and speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and continues to serve to this day as a US Congressman for the 5th district of Georgia.
Who is John Lewis?
400
"I freed a thousand slaves...I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
She was the first African-American millionaire.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
400
A surgeon, professor, and physician, he developed a means of preserving blood plasma for transfusion. During World War II he headed the program that sent blood to Great Britain and was the creator and director of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank.
Who is Charles Drew?
400
She was the first African-American actor or actress to ever win an Academy Award. (1940 - Best supporting actress)
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
400
Another one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first black labor union, and organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is Barack Obama?
500
This was the first African-American featured on a US postage stamp.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
A former Air Force and NASA engineer, he invented the massively popular Super Soaker water gun and many other popular Nerf toys.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
500
Also a renown photographer, he was the first black Hollywood film director.
Who is Gordon Parks?
500
Now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, in 1954 it unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?