Sports
The most awarded gymnast in US history?
Simone Biles
The first Black woman millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Two Answers: The first Black woman VPOTUS and the First Black woman to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice
Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The most awarded artist in Grammy history
Beyoncé
The first Black principal ballerina at American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland
The first Black woman to be featured on the cover of GQ Magazine?
Tyra Banks
This Spelman alumna ran for Governor of Georgia in 2018 and 2022
Stacey Abrams
Former First Lady Michelle Obama wrote about her life experiences in this memoir
Becoming
She rapped in songs “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It”
Missy Elliott
This Olympic sprinter didn't let childhood polio stop her as she won three gold medals in 1960
Wilma Rudolph
The first Black woman to go to space?
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
The youngest Inaugural Poet in US History?
Amanda Gorman
This author attended Spelman College but didn't graduate from there, and was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Bonus Points for the Book!Alice Walker
She won a Grammy for Best Rap Album for her 2018 album Invasion of Privacy
Cardi B
The first Black woman to win a Grand Slam tournament?
Althea Gibson
The first Black woman to become a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company?
Marian Anderson
The only Black woman in the group of founders of the NAACP
Ida B. Wells
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the best selling novel of the 19th century
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Three Answers: Diana Ross was first in this girl group signed to which label before going solo giving birth to her daughter, who is most famous for her role as Rainbow on Blackish
The Supremes
Motown Records
Tracee Ellis Ross
This LSU women’s basketball player won the 2023 MVP for the NCAA Championship game
Angel Reese
This young teenager was arrested months before Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat in 1955
Claudette Colvin
The first Black woman to run for POTUS
Shirley Chisholm
The first African American author of a published book of poetry
Phyllis Wheatley
She became the first, and only, Black woman to win a Country Music Award in November 2023, even though the song originally released in 1988
Bonus points for the song!
Tracy Chapman
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