African American History Frenzy!

First African American secretary of State.

Leader of the abolitionist movement who fought to end slavery in the U.S. before the Civil War.

First African American woman who became a ballerina in American Ballet Theater.

The National Guard tried to stop 9 black students from attending a segregated school 1957-City?

First African American Major League Baseball player.

Which of the following invented the blood bank?

Who was the first African American to make a space flight?

1st African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Repr. & 1st woman to run for president.

Civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat to a white man.

In 1957, she was the first black woman to win the U.S. Open tennis championship.

American historian and educator who organized the first black history week.

This inventor created more than 325 products from peanuts.

Opera singer banned from performing at Constitution Hall; but performed at Lincoln Memorial.

First African American U.S. president.

At the age of 14, she became the first African American poet to publish a book in the U.S.