Black History Bee Overall Study Session

Is the first African American Country Music artist in twenty years to make the country music top 40 with his number 1 hit "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" in 2008.

• Darius Rucker

• Mary McCleod Bethune

• Roland Hayes

• Hank Aaron

Was a noted speaker and write whose topics extensively spoke of unfair treatment of African Americans

• Dr. W.E.B. Dubois

• Thurgood Marshall

• Errol Garner

• Fritz Pollard

Wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the black national anthem.

• James Weldon Johnson

• Greensboro Four

• Spirituals

• Jesse Owens

Is a famous African American playwright who is best known for her play, "A Raisin in the Sun."

• Lorraine Hansberry

• Carter G. Woodson

• Matthew Alexander Henson

• Shani Davis

Her powerful voice destroyed the racial barriers in classical music. She was the first African American contralto to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.

• Marian Anderson

• Danny Tillman

• Gloria Dean Randle Scott

• Shani Davis

Was the first African American inducted into the Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame.

• Bill Pickett

• Cheney University

• Dr. Maulana Karenga

• Arthur Ashe

An African American cowboy, won the title, "Deadwood Dick" in a roping contest.

• Nat Love

• Booker T. Washington

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Marian Wright Edelman

Known as "Stagecoach Mary" was the first African American United States Postal stagecoach driver in Montana territory. She was six feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds and was tough enough to take on any two men.

• Mary Fields

• Dr. Judy White

• Colonel Allen Allensworth

• The Fifteenth Amendment

Was the first African American appointed as a Deputy U.S. Marshall west of the Mississippi River in 1875. He spoke several Indian languages and worked throughout the Indian Territory.

• Bass Reeves

• Lewis Howard Latimer

• Carol Mosley Braun

• Garrett A. Morgan

Rode the Chilsolm Train in 1871. He was recognized as a singing cowboy who wrote "Goodby Old Paint" in 1885.

• Charlie Willis

• Barack Obama

• Tony Dungy

• Darius Rucker