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The Little Rock Nine were nine Africian American students who integrated Central High School | 35 | The Emancipation Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious southern states are henceforth and forever free" | |
Kwanza is a holiday that started in 1966 by Ron Karenga. Kwanza means "first fruits" in Swahili | 36 | Jackie Robinson was the first African American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player Award | |
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the freedom from slavery; celebrated on June 19 | 37 | Colin Powell coordinated Operation Desert Storm | |
An abolitionist is a person who works to end slavery | 38 | Aretha Franklin was known as the Queen of Soul | |
B.B. King is noted for Blues music | 39 | Chubby Checker is known for recording, dancing, and popularizing the twist | |
Chadwick Boseman played the role of Jackie Robinson in the movie "42" | 40 | Alice Walker is the author of The Color Purple | |
Carol Moseley-Braun was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate | 41 | Gabby Douglas was the first black female to win the all-around gold medal in gymnastics | |
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode integrated busses throughout the South | 42 | Cathy Hughes is the founder of Radio One and TV One | |
Dorothy Height was the President of the National Council of Negro Women | 43 | Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world's first open-heart surgery | |
Spelman College is America's oldest HBCU for women | 44 | James Earl Jones provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie Star Wars | |
Satchel Paige was the first black baseball pitcher to be enshrined into the baseball Hall of Fame | 45 | Bessie Coleman is the first African American woman aviator | |
There are 107 HBCUs recognized by the U.S. Department of Education | 46 | Harriett Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
In 1954, Thurgood Marshall helped orchestrate the landmark Supreme Court Case Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka | 47 | Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Supreme Court Justice | |
Misty Copeland was the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre | 48 | Diahann Carroll was the first African American woman to have her own weekly television series, "Julia" | |
The first black owned television station was established in Detroit | 49 | Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize | |
Nikki Giovanni is known as the "Princess of Black Poetry" | 50 | John Mercer Langston was the first black to be elected to a political office in the United States | |
NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest, and most widely recognized grassroots based civil rights organization | 51 | Lorraine Hansberry was the first black woman to have her work performed on Broadway | |
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape North and to Candada | 52 | Hazel O' Leary was the first female and first black secretary of energy | |
Benjamin Mayes was President of Morehouse College from 1940 to 1967 | 53 | Rube Foster was the founder of the Negro Baseball League | |
The Emancipation Proclamation declaration was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 | 54 | Booker T. Washington was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver | |
Eric Holder was appointed the first black attorney general by President Barack Obama | 55 | Alex Haley wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" | |
Loretta Lynch was appointed the first black female attorney general | 56 | Wilberforce was the first black owned college in the United States | |
Viola Davis is the first black actor to have won an Academy Award, an Emmy, and a Tony | 57 | Daniel Payne was the first black President at Wilberforce | |
Condoleezza Rice served as Secretary of State | 58 | North Star was the name of the abolitionist newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass | |
The National Civil Rights Museum is located in Memphis, Tennessee | 59 | W.E.B. DuBois is cofounder of the NAACP | |
Ronald McNair, astronaut, died in the 1986 space shuttle disaster | 60 | Myrlie Evers-Williams was the first female chairperson of the NAACP | |
Sarah Vaughn took jazz vocals to a new level and was called "The Divine One" | 61 | The Lorainne Hotel is where Dr. Martin Luther King was murdered | |
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution states "Slavery shall not exist in any part of the U.S." | 62 | Colin Powell was the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | |
Dizzy Gillespie trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward | 63 | Ursula Burns was the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company | |
HARPO is the name of Oprah Winfrey's TV production company | 64 | Ralph Bunche was the first black to win the Nobel Peace Prize | |
Motown is the name of Berry Gordy, Jr. record label | 65 | Barack Obama was the first African American President of the United States | |
Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. is the first Black Greek lettered fraternity | 66 | Benjamin O' Davis Jr. was the first black Air Force General | |
Million Man March was the largest civil rights protest in America | 67 | Nelson Mandela was the first black President of South Africa | |
There are 7 days of Kwanzaa | 68 | Robert Johnson is the first black Billionaire |