Black History Month

Colin Powell became the first African-American to be appointed Secretary of State in 2001?

Miles Davis was recognized by his puffed-out cheeks and unusual trumpet.

He was the first African-American to play major league baseball?

He started a newspaper that helped fight slavery, called the “North Star”.

Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?

Barack Obama became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

Dr. Patricia Bath invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people see.

Who invented an oil-dripping cup for trains?

Nia Franklin is the 1st African American woman to become “Miss America”

Who was the first African American woman to fly in outer space?

What civil rights leader promoted an ethic of "by any means necessary"?

This civil rights organization formed in 1909 to advance justice for African Americans

Name the African American author of the book, “Notes of a Native Son”.

At the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, this track star won four gold medals.

Who recorded the song “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”?

What mathematician was a surveyor on the team that planned Washington DC.

Regina Hamilton was the first Black woman to serve as Surgeon General?

“Up From Slavery” is the autobiography of what political leader, educator, orator and author.

Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917, who became the 1st African American to ever win the Pulitzer Prize? 

He became the 1st African American to win an Oscar for Best Leading Actor in “Lilies of the Field”.

He was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim.

The first Black woman to win the world figure skating championship on March 22, 1986?

In 1916 who published the first issue of the “Journal of Negro History”?

Alice Walker’s wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning novel entitled The Color Purple?

What author of “Beloved” became the 1st African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993?