Black History Flashcards
Black underground railroad “conductor”
Harriet Tubman
Founder of Ebony and Jet magazines
John Johnson
University integrated in 1962
University of Alabama
Black orator and former slave
Frederick Douglas
First Black Surgeon General
Jocelyn Elders
First Black starring role on television
Diahann Carroll (for Julia)
Black 19th century educator; founder of Tuskegee institute
Booker T. Washington
First Black singer for the Metropolitan Opera
Marian Anderson
First Black US Poet Laureate
Maya Angelou
Black preacher who led 1831 insurrection against slavery
Nat Turner
First Black US Ambassador to United Nations
Andrew Young
First Black in space
Leon Bluford Jr.
Black Rainbow Coalition leader
Jesse Jackson
First Black in the NBA
Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton
First Black major league baseball player (19th century)
Moses Fleetwood Walker
First Black awarded Nobel Peace prize
Ralph Bunche
First Black mayor of Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
First Black to win Pulitzer prize for literature
Alice Walker
First Black Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm
“One O’clock Jump” band leader
Count Basie
First Black to reach the North Pole
Matthew Henson
Black founder of The American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey
First Black awarded Nobel Prize for literature
Toni Morrison
Black Peanut cultivator
George Washington Carver
First Black heavyweight boxing champion
Jack Johnson
First Black major league baseball player (20th century)
Jackie Robinson
Black Texas congresswoman 1972-78
Barbara Jordan
Woman who inititated the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks
First Black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
First Black American league baseball player (20th century)
Larry Doby
First Black mayor of Detroit (five times)
Coleman Young
First Black mayor of Atlanta
Maynard Jackson