The Arts
The first Black person to win an Oscar Award
Who is Hattie McDaniel? for Mammie in Gone with the Wind
This famous football running back (heisman trophy and college football hall of fame star) who danced with a Fort Worth ballet company, and later ran for senator as a Republican in GA.
Who is Herschel Walker?
This was the first historically black college to develop on-campus commercial radio (WAUG-AM 750) and television (WAUG-TV 68) stations.
What is Saint Augustine University?
The Largest black church denomination
What is The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.?
or what is baptist
Many US Presidents were said to have black ancestry, but for sure, the first black president was clearly black.
Who is Barak Hussain Obama?
The first Black person to win an Emmy Award (Music) May 4, 1959.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald? Who is Count Basie?
He became the youngest heavy weight boxing champion in history. He competed from 1985 to 2005.
Who is Mike Tyson? Who is Iron Mike?
The youngest of 12 children born to sharecropping parents in Grapeland, Tex.,she is best known as the first Black president of an Ivy League university: She presided over Brown University from 2001 until 2012
Who is Ruth J. Simmons?
the church where nine people were killed by Dylann Roof, a white superamacist while at bible study in Charlston, South Carolina
What is Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?
this Oxford, NC native coined the term "environmental racism" to refer to targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and siting of polluting industries,"
who is Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis?
the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate by Urban Word who recited her poem at the inaguration of Joe Biden in 2021
Who is Amanda Gorman?
In the 1936 Olympics, this man won four gold medals.
Who is Jesse Owens?
he first college in the nation to offer a four-year medical program, the first historically Black college in the nation to open its doors to women, and the first historically Black college in North Carolina to be granted an “A” rating by the State Department of Public Instruction.
What is Shaw University?
Of the black and/or African people named in the Bible, one of the most outstanding
Who is Hagar or the Queen of Sheba or Candace, Queen of Ethiopia or King Solomon
The first Black Woman confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
The fashion icon who was the first black creative director for Vogue magazine
Who is Andre Leon Talley?
A famous boxer often called "the greatest," who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
Who is Mohammad Ali?
The billionaire who paid more thant 400 Morehouse College student loans in 2019
Who is Robert Smith?
This was where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s preached his first sermon, co-pastor with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr., serving from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
what is Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta?
This Black female activist was acquitted of murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy by an all-white jury stemming from a 1970 shoot-out in which 4 people died. She is known by her signature afro.
who is Angela Davis?
The first Black Prima Ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Who is Janet Collins
She was an African American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m.
Who is Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo?
He created a complex computer code (the .com) that allows a person to surf the web
Who is Emmit McHenry?
Elijah Poole was his name at birth and Minister Louis Farrakahn replaced him as the head of the Nation of Islam.
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad?
The One of the most popular black American politicians who was a lawyer, author, voting rights activist who ran for Governor of Georgia in 2022 as the Democratic nominee.
Who is Stacy Abrams?