1) Who was the first African American woman to be elected to congress in 1968?

1) What was the first higher education institution built for African Americans?

1) Who was the first African American president elected in 2009?

1) Who was the first African American US attorney general under President Barack Obama?

1) Who was the first African American Chicago Public School teacher to start her own school?

1) Who was the fifteen year old African American young lady who refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

1) Who negotiated the release of a hostage in 1983?

1) Who was the African American key member of the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1909?

1) Who was the first African American man to hold the world’s Heavy weight championship in 1908?

1) Who was the first African American to win an Olympic Gold Medal?

1) Who was the first African American pitcher to be inducted into the baseball hall of fame?

1) Who was the African American football star that was offered over 50 scholarships to attend Universities?

1) Who was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut in 1967?

1) Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?

1) Who was the first African American to teach himself astronomy and math?

1) Who was the African American jazz singer that inspired the cartoon character Betty Boop?

1) Who was the first African American to win a Grammy for best rap performance?

1) Who was the first African American to win an Oscar, but not allowed to attend the Academy Awards?

1) Who was the first African American neurosurgeon in the US?

1) Who was the first African American female author published when she was only 12?

These quadruplets born May 23, 1946 in Reidsville North

Carolina, became the first surviving identical African

American quads

This engineer and inventor is the reason why disc based

home video games exist.

This inventor was responsible for the creation of the

cooling system on refrigerated trucks.

She was born in 1902 in an all black town of Taft in

Oklahoma. Born to parents who were African descendants of the Creek Nation. She was given 160 acres of land under the Treaty of 1866. She was once the richest black child in America.

A black nurse was the originator of the first home security system in 1966 and was granted a patent in 1969.

He was an Aerospace Engineer for NASA when he created the most famous water gun – the Super Soaker.

She was the Chief Digital Service Officer for the United States Department of Education during the presidency of Barack Obama. Developed several internet technologies including Animated GIFs.

His inexpensive, effective design became the basis for today’s? Traffic control system. Who is he?

A black entrepreneur, and the founder of the much loved

“ Famous Amos” chocolate chip cookie brand which was started in

1975 and has gone on to become one of the best selling cookie brands in the United States

Founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Black Entertainment Television, is also the majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and the first African American billionaire

Born in 1870 to formerly enslaved parents, he attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and graduated from Kent Law School in Chicago in 1899. In May 1905 he started publishing the Chicago Defender newspaper

She was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known play is “ A Raisin in the Sun “.

This poet was born on May 30, 1903 in Louisville, Kentucky. He won several awards for his poem, “ Ballad of the Brown Girl “

In 1975, she started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago. The school flourished and won many accolades for turning children considered to be unteachable into successful students.

The child of fugitive slaves, she became the first African American woman to receive a college degree from Oberlin College in 1862. She later became the principal of the Preparatory High School for Negroes

This legendary tennis player was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team in 1963.

He was the first African American in space, an American aerospace engineer and a retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot. Guion “Guy” Bluford

Co-founder and Artistic Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, America’s first African American ballet company.

He was one of the leading musicians of the Big Band “ Swing” era. His orchestra was formed in 1963 and featured singers such as Billie Holiday.

She was a female jazz singer and accomplished composer who performed into the 1990s. She was sometimes referred to as The First Lady of Song and Queen of jazz

Founded in 1916 by brothers Noble and George Johnson, it was considered to be the first all black movie production company in the United States.

In 1849, this man mailed himself to freedom in a shipping box during a 27 hour trip from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Who was the first African American to play as a quarterback in the National Football League?

In 1985, she was offered the role of Sofia in Steven Spielberg;s film of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel “ The Color Purple”.

His work helped bring artificial light to America’s homes and businesses.