1. He was a sociologist and educator who won many awards for his work like the 1940 Guggenheim Award and the John Anisfield Award.
2. He wrote an almanac from 1792 to 1797.
3. He discovered peanut butter.
4. She traveled to many places and spoke the truth about slavery.
5. He was a author during the Harlem Renaissance that wrote "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."
6. She was an author who wrote a narrative story called Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself.
7. She was a teacher who wrote more novels than any other balck writer from 1924 to 1933.
8. He was a scientist who discovered the modern processes for preserving blood for transfusions.
9. He founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
10. He founded the American Negro Academy.
11. He was a controversial figure in the Civil Right's Movement.
12. She was a poet, novelist, and teacher. She wrote the novel Jubilee.
13. She fought for a woman's right to vote. She marched in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. in 1913.
14. He was the most influential person in modern Civil Rights. He wrote the speech 'I Have a Dream...'
15. She led about 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
16. She was an author who produced seven books and more than fifty shorter works from autobiography to folklore to music to mythology.
17. He founded the Tuskegee Normal School.
18. She was the first black woman to have a play in Broadway.
19. She established a school, a hospital, and she founded the National Council of Negro Women.
20. He was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
21. She was one of the first black students to attend the University of Georgia in 1961. She later became a publisher for the New York Times.
22. She is the first African American to sit in the U.S. Senate. She is from Illinois.
23. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two plays he wrote. He later founded the Black Horizons Theatre Company.
24. She was a political scientist in Georgia. She along with her dad became the first father-daughter legislative team in the country. |
