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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
Who said, Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power?
Who is Barbara Jordan?
What NC A & T State University graduate became the first African - American Mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina in 2007?
Who is Yvonne Johnson?
Who was the first woman elected to Congress from North Carolina?
Who is Eva McPherson Clayton?
An American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
In 1923, the U.S. Patent Office grants Patent No. 1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman for his three-position traffic signal.
Who is Garret Morgan?
Who was the first African American woman and clergy to be elected moderator of the PC(USA)’s General Assembly?
Who is Joan Salmon Campbell?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Henry T. Sampson, in 1971 was awarded a patent for a device that produces a high voltage from radiation sources. From this patent what useful technology was created?
What is the cell phone?
Who was the first African American woman ordained in the PC(USA)?
Who is Katie Geneva Cannon?
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Who was the first African American woman to serve as moderator of Presbyterian Women?
Who is Sara Brown Cordery?
In 1926 it began as Negro History Week, today it is known as Black History Month
Who Carter G Woodson?
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Who said "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does -- that makes you a winner right there.
Who is Venus Williams?
Who served as president of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus?
Who is Willie Dell?
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