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  • Who was the first African American to be elected to the US Senate?
    Hiram Rhodes Revels
  • She's won 24 Grammys, dabbled in acting, producing, and directing, and launched an activewear collection.
    Beyonce
  • Who started Negro History week which turned into Black History Month?
    Carter G. Woodson
  • Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
    He is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
  • He was an American artist with Haitian and Puerto Rican roots.
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Who was the first Black president of the US?
    Barack Obama
  • Is Titus Kaphar an inventor, doctor, artist or scientist?
    artist
  • Born in 1956, she was an engineer, doctor and NASA astronaut! She was the first African-American woman to travel to space
    Mae Jemison
  • What is Jean-Michel Basquiat famous for?
    art
  • Who was the first Black man to become a lawyer & uncle to Langston Hughes??
    John Mercer Langston
  • She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America.
    Madam C.J. Walker
  • He was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the patents of the incandescent light bulb
    Lewis Latimer
  • What is Mary Eliza Mahoney known for?
    She was the first African-American in the US to earn a professional nursing license
  • He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
    George Washington Carver
  • He is the only actor to gross $100 million domestically with eight movies in a row
    Will Smith
  • What is Patricia Bath known for?
    Laser cataract surgery
  • Who inspired the Montgomery bus boycott?
    Rosa Parks
  • Born in 1845 she was the first African-American in the US to earn a professional nursing license
    Mary Eliza Mahoney
  • Born in 1877 and only having an elementary education, he invented the traffic light and a hair-straightening product
    Garrett Morgan
  • Who as the first Black female US Vice President?
    Kamala Harris
  • He is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Who was one of the 1st Black Millionaires?
    Robert Johnson, Oprah Winfey or Michael Jordan
  • Name a movie Will Smith was in.
    Men in Black, Bad Boys, Independence Day, Spy, Shark Tales, Hancock, I am Lengend
  • This famous doctor opened the first hospital with an integrated staff (which means both black and white nurses and doctors worked there)
    Daniel Hale Williams
  • What did George Washington Carver discover?
    He was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
  • Who participated in the Nashville sit-ins, lead the Montgomery marches & lead the incident known as Bloody Sunday?
    John Lewis
  • She was an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery.
    Patricia Bath
  • Name one song by Beyonce.
    Single Ladies, Crazy in Love, Irreplaceable, Si yo fuera un Chico, etc.
  • What was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
    Thurgood Marshall
  • What did Daniel Hale Williams accomplish?
    This famous doctor opened the first hospital with an integrated staff and The first African American cardiologist who performed the first successful open heart
  • What did Lewis Latimer have patents for?
    He was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the patents of the incandescent light bulb
  • He grew up as Shawn Carter in the projects of Brooklyn, New York. He's one of the greatest rappers of all time, he's worth 610 Million Dollars. He's married to Beyonce
    Jay Z
  • Who was the first Black player in the NBA?
    Earl Lloyd
  • What is Shawn Carter's stage name?
    Jay Z
  • Name one thing Madam C.J. Walker invented.
    Black hair products, shampoo, pomade,
  • He is an American painter whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject
    Titus Kaphar
  • Who was the first African American to win a Academy Award?
    Hattie McDaniel
  • Who was the first African American in professional baseball?
    Jackie Robinson
  • Name something Garrett Morgan invented.
    traffic light, sewing machine, hair-straightening product, breathing device
  • Born in 1918 she was a mathematician who worked for NASA. Her calculations of orbital mechanics helped early U.S. crewed spaceflights
    Katherine Johnson
  • Who wrote "Thank You Ma'am"?
    Langston Hughes
  • What was Louis Armstrong known for?
    Jazz Music
  • One of the most influential Jazz musicicans of all time, he helped to make Jazz music popular across the U.S. and the world
    Louis Armstrong
  • Who did Katherine Johnson work for?
    NASA
  • Who was the first Black woman to run for president and first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives?
    Shirley Chisholm
  • Who was the first World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion?
    Jack Johnson
  • Why is Mae Jemison important?
    She was an engineer, doctor and NASA astronaut! She was the first African-American woman to travel to space