BIM I Black History Activity

The first African-American to play major league baseball.

• Aesop
• Jackie Robinson
• Wilma Rudolph
• Benjamin Banneker

He invented the traffic light, gas mask, and many other inventions.

• Booker T. Washington
• Barack H. Obama
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Garrett Morgan

A brilliant surgeon who pioneered research with plasma and created the first blood bank.

• Thurgood Marshall
• Benjamin Banneker
• Charles Drew
• Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Carson

African prince who became a Christian missionary.

• Samuel Morris
• Booker T. Washington
• Sojourner Truth
• Dr. Carter G. Woodson

An African-American organization formed in the US to promote civil rights.

• Sarah Boone
• Charles Drew
• N.A.A.C.P.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Activist and entrepreneur who developed beauty products and was the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire.

• Colin Powell
• Madame C.J. Walker
• Samuel Morris
• George Washington Carver

A civil rights attorney and former US President who served two terms.

• Rosa Parks
• Crispus Attucks
• Barack H. Obama
• Harriet Tubman

A former slave, activist, and intellectual, he created the newspaper "the North Star" and held several important government positions.

• Frederick Douglass
• Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Carson
• N.A.A.C.P.
• Langston Hughes

African American civil rights activist and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam.

• Rosa Parks
• Dr. Carter G. Woodson
• Muhammad Ali
• Malcolm X

Former soldier and retired four-star General who eventually became first Black Secretary of State in 2001.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Colin Powell
• Malcolm X
• Muhammad Ali