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The American sprinter won the 100m gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics with a personal best of 9.784 seconds, marking the first U.S. victory in the event since 2004.
Who is Noah Lyles?
The U.S. Constitution's 13th Amendment.
What is a law the ended slavery?
This historically Black college established the first medical school for Black students in the South in 1881.
What is Howard University College of Medicine?
This scientist, the first Black student at Iowa State, is best known for discovering many uses for peanuts, including soap and flour.
Who is George Washington Carver?
NAACP stands for this.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This Nigerian artist won the inaugural Best African Music Performance award at the 2025 Grammys for the song "Love Me JeJe."
Who is Tems?
This individual became the first Black Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Many Black families swear by this drink as the go-to remedy for an upset stomach or nausea.
What is ginger ale?
Dr. Nola Hylton played a key role in developing this brain imaging method that uses magnets to study the structure and function of the brain.
What is MRI?
Black History Month is celebrated in February because it coincides with the birthdays of these two influential figures in history.
Who are Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?
In a fiery 2024 House Oversight Committee meeting, this Black congresswoman went viral for describing Marjorie Taylor Greene as having a "bleach-blonde bad-built butch-body."
Who is Jasmine Crockett?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Black woman's cells were taken without her consent and used to create the first immortal human cell line.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This pioneering woman became the first African-American woman to go to space.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
Black History Month started in this year.
What is 1976?
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, this Brazilian gymnast won the gold medal in the women's Floor Exercise Finals, marking the first time an all-Black podium was achieved in Olympic gymnastics history.
Who is Rebeca Andrade?
This is the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This woman became the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
In 2024, Dr. Carla Pugh became the first Black woman to lead a department at this prestigious medical school.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
This was the first Black student to attend a white school in the American South, breaking barriers in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
In January 2025, this judge was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court, becoming the first Latina and Black justice in the state's history.
Who is Maria Elena Cruz?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom in a case that led to a 1857 Supreme Court ruling stating that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be U.S. citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
This was the name of the first un-segregated Black-owned hospital in Chicago.
What is Provident Hospital in Chicago?
This NASA mathematician calculated the path for the first U.S. astronaut's flight and helped plan the first moon landing.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The Civil Rights Act, aimed at ending segregation and discrimination, was passed in this year.
What is 1964?