Famous African Americans

Who was the first African American president?

• John F. Kennedy

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

Who said the "I Have A Dream" Speech

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

Who was a conductor in the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Nelson Mandela

• Langston Hughes

• Tiger Woods

Who was the first black baseball player

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglas

• Jackie Robinson

• Abraham Lincoln

Who wrote the speech "Ain't I a Women"

• Coretta Scott King

• Helen Keller

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

Who was the first African American to become a Supreme Court Justice

• Frederick Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thurgood Marshall

• Emmett Till

Who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementry School in Louisiana

• Raymond Parks

• Malcolm X

• Claudette Colvin

• Ruby Bridges

Who wrote a "Dream Deferred"

• Carl Sandburg

• Langston Hughes

• Rita Dove

• Robert Hayden

Who helped found the NAACP

• George Washington

• Michael Jordan

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Harriet Tubman

Who developed products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Barack Obama

• Ida B. Wells

• George Washington Carver