Black History A+ Advisory

Who is this pianist/composer knows as the King of Ragtime?

Maya Angelou was a writer, a poet,

Who is this civil rights leader and attorney, first woman and first African American elected to Congress from Texas?

In 2000, President George W. Bush appointed Condoleeza Rice to the post of:

 Who is this first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and the nation’s first Black female judge?

This social worker and prosecutor for her time led one of the largest prosecutions of organized crime in US history.

Langston Hughes promoted equality, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality through:

Who is this famous blind African-American Pianist?

Which African-American was known as the Father of Jazz?

A grandson of a slave, born in Harlem in 1924, this writer wrote about being a black American in the mid-1900s.

Who is this black person who helped develop America’s first large-scale blood banking program in the 1940s?

Jamaican poet best known for his novels and poems, including "If We Must Die," a contribution to the Harlem Renaissance.

Nigerian immigrant who wrote "Things Fall Apart", which is referred to as the Father of the African Novel.

Who is this prominent African American HIV/AIDS activist and founded the Black AIDS Institute in 1999?

Faith Ringgold developed characters and stories that did all of the following, EXCEPT