photage of notable black americans created by sharon hill october 13, 2005
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Photage of Notable Black
AmericansCreated by
Sharon Hill
October 13, 2005
1. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to help students to understand how much African Americans have prospered since slavery. As a result of determination and perseverance, African American successes were experienced, acquired, and recorded on the pages of countless history books. Photage of Notable Black Americans is also designed to instill a strong sense of self-worth, self-pride, and/or self-determination for all students.
Slavery Determination+ Perseverance
Freedom
What slave committed murder so that she and her children would be free?
Answer: Margaret Garner
What slave found freedom by folding himself up inside of a box and mailing himself to the free state of Virginia?
Answer: Henry Box Brown
What female slave traveled by train in search of freedom while posing as a white man with her slave husband by her side?
Answer: William and Ellen Craft
What slave found freedom by winning his fight with the judicial system and was sent back to Africa?
Answer: Joseph Cinque
Creativity Imagination
+ Need Inventions
What African American invented the gas burning furnace?
What African American invented the Traffic Signal and the gas mask?
Answer: Alice Parker Answer: Garrett A. Morgan
What African American invented the fountain pen?
What African American invented the first sculpture?
Answer: W. B. Purvis Answer: Edmonia Lewis
What African American performed the first eye surgery?
What African American invented the stethoscope?
Answer: Patricia E. Bath Answer: Imhotep
What African American invented the ironing board?
What African American invented the galoshes?
Answer: Sarah Boone Answer: A. L. Rickman
What African American invented the player piano?
What African American invented the helicopter?
Answer: Joseph Dickerson Answer: Paul E. Williams
What African American cowboy is credited with originating the rodeo sport called “bulldogging”?
What African American invented the pressure cooker?
Answer: Bill Pickett Answer: Maurice W. Lee
What African American invented several eatable and noneatable products from the sweet potato and peanut?
What African American invented the letter drop mailbox?
Answer:
George Washington Carver Answer: Philip Dowling
What African American invented the video home security system?
What African American invented the toilet?
Answer: Mary Brown Answer: Thomas Elkins
What African American invented a better design for refrigeration?
What African American invented and/or patented the dust pan?
Answer: Thomas Elkins Answer: Lloyd Ray
What African American invented the lunch pail?
What African American invented the cabinet bed?
Answer: James Robinson Answer: Sarah E. Goode
What African American invented the super soaker?
What African American invented the coin changer?
Answer: Lonnie Johnson Answer: James A. Bauer
What African American invented the disposable syringe?
What African American invented the automatic fishing device?
Answer: H. Bradberry Answer: George Cook
What African American invented the golf tee?
What African American invented the hand stamp?
Answer: Henry Blair Answer: W. B. Purvis
What African American invented the baby buggy?
What African American invented the roller coaster?
Answer: Rufus J. Weaver
Answer:
Granville T. Woods
What African American invented the key chain?
What African American invented the electric lamp?
Answer:
Frederick J. Loudin Answer: Lewis Latimer
What African American invented the biscuit cutter?
What African American invented the folding bed?
Answer: A. P. Ashbourne Answer: L. C. Bailey
What African American invented the fire extinguisher?
What African American invented the guitar?
Answer: T. J. Marshall Answer: F. Flemings, Jr.
What African American invented the library table?
What African American invented luggage carriers?
Answer: W. R. Davis, Jr. Answer: J. W. Butts
What African American invented the locomotive smoke stack?
What African American invented sheet music?
Answer: L. Bell Answer: Frank Johnson
Those who seek knowledge through the pages of a book inherit careers such as
Scientists
Athletics
Astronauts
Political Figures
Doctors
Lawyers
Educators
Engineers
and a host of others.
What was the name of the first black owned radio station?
What was the name of the first black woman physician?
Answer: WERD
Answer: Robecca Lee
What was the name of the first black Miss America?
What was the name of the first black woman to own her own
television station?
Answer: Vanessa Williams
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
What was the name of the first black magazine?
What was the name of the first black newspaper?
Answer: Mirror of Liberty
Answer: Freedom’s Journal
What was the name of the African American to graduate from Dental
School?
What was the name of the first black lawyer?
Answer: Lucy Hobbs
Answer: John S. Rock
What was the name of the African American who invented the mop?
What was the name of the first black Winter Olympic gold medal
winner?
Answer: Thomas W. Stewart
Answer: Vanetta Flowers
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Poor
People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.?
What antislavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
Answer: Ralph Abernathy
Answer: The North Star
What is the name of the educational institution that was established by
Booker T. Washington?
Who was the first African American official in the U.S.
State Department?
Answer:Tuskegee Institute
Answer: Ralph Bunche
Who was the first African American congress woman from
the South?
Who advocated “equality for every man, self defense, and self
help”?
Answer: Barbara Jordan
Answer: Malcolm X
Cheyney State, considered the oldest African American collee in the United States was founded in
what year?
Who founded the Nation of Islam?
Answer: 1837
Answer: W. D. Ford
What civil rights group was organized on Abraham Lincoln’s
birthday in 1909 in New York City?
The first four-year accredited college was founded by whom?
Answer: NAACP
Answer: Mary McLeod Bethune
Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party?
Who was the first African American to preside over a
national political convention?
Answer: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
Answer: John Roy Lunch
James Farmer was executive director of what organization?
What successful black businessman worked to
establishindependent colonies in Africa for freed slaves?
Answer:Congress of Racial Equality
Answer:Paul Cuffe
In 1964, who was named the director of the United States
Information Agency?
Who became the first African American female lawyer in 1872?
Answer: Carl T. Rowan
Answer: Charlotte E. Ray
What did Carter G. Woodson start in 1926?
What African American educator also served as an advisor to five
U.S. presidents?
Answer: Negro Histroy Week
Answer: Mary McCloud Bethune
Who was the first black soldier to receive the Congressional Medal
of Honor for his outstanding bravery?
Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize
for Literature?
Answer: William H. Carney
Answer: Toni Morrison
What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accomodations for blacks?
What was the name of the ship that made the first voyage from the North
American colonies to bring back slaves from Africa?
Answer: Mitchell vs. U.S. Interstate Commerce Act
Answer: Rainbow
In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington, DC., becoming the first African American woman mayor of a
major U.S. city?
Answer: Sharon Pratt Kelly
Who was the first African American to appear on the presidential ballot in
all 50 states?
Answer: Lenora Fulani
What was the name of Martin Luther King Jr’s first church?
Answer: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Who was the first African American to establish and head a bank?
Answer: Maggie Lena Walker
When Cassius Clay converted to the Nation of Islam, he changed his name
to what?
Answer: Muhammad Ali
What legislator’s eloquent argument for President Nixon’s impeachment
drew national praise during the Watergate hearings?
Answer: Barbara Jordan
What African American Muslim leader called for a separate African
American nation?
Answer: Elijah Muhammad
What sculptor designed the profile of president Franklin D. Roosevelt that
appears on the dime?
Answer: Selma Burke
Who wrote The Fire Next Time, a disturbing version of the destruction
that faced American society if it could not solve its racial problems?
Answer: James Baldwin
What African American was arrested and executed in 1800 for organizing a
slave revolt?
Answer: Gabriel Prosser
What African American union organizer helped open he door for the
U.S. Congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination?
Answer: A. Philip Randolph
In 1829, Walker’s Appeal called for what?
Answer: Any means necessary to fight slavery
Who was the first African American woman to lecture on antislavery
issues?
Answer: Maria W. Stewart
Who won the National Book Award for Invisible Man becoming the first
African American to receive this honor?Answer: Ralph Ellison
What African American revolutionary led colonial forces
sduring the Boston Massacre in 1770, becoming “the first to defy, and the
first to die?Answer: Crispus Attucks
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women’s suffrage organization?
Answer: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What were the black soldiers who primarily fought Native Americans in the West after the Civil War called?
Answer: Buffalo Soldiers
What famous African American woman dedicated her life to finding
her lost family which had been separated by slave owners?
Answer: Clara Brown
What respected educator did Martin Luther King, Jr., call “my spiritual
advisor”?
Answer: Benjamin E. Mays
Who advanced the idea of nonviolent protest almost 100 years before
Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Answer: William S. Whipper
Who helped from the American Moral Reform Society, which helped blacks acquire farmland and aided runaway slaves in their escape to
Canada?Answer: William S. Whipper
Who was the first African American to receive international recognition as
a poet and novelist?
Answer: Paul Lawrence Dunbar
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded
by whom?
Answer: Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Who was elected to Congress in 1944 and became the first congress person to represent the district of Harlem?
Answer: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Who was the first African American senator in Congress?
Answer: Hiram Revels
Who was the first African American soldier awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War?
Answer: Milton Olive.
Levi Coffin’s mid-western operation, which helped slaves toescape, became
known as the Underground Railroad’s what?
Answer: Grand Central Station
Who turned his home into the first black school in Boston?
Answer: Prince Hall
Who helped organize the first “Negro Baptist” church in the American colonies in Savannah, Georgia?
Answer: Andrew Bryan
Who appointed “Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court”?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson
Who published Freedom’s Journal, the first African American
newspaper?
Answer: John Russwurm
Who founded the Children’s Defense Fund?
Answer: Mariam Wrigt Edelman
In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Day?
Answer: 1993
Who was the first African American elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives?
Answer: Joseph H. Rainey
Who was the first African American minister ordained in America?
Answer: Absalom Jones
Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown,
Virginia?
Answer: William Tucker
Who was the first African Americanto hold the position of Commissioner of
Social Security?
Answer: Gwendolyn S. King
Who was Chicago’s first African American mayor?
Answer: Harold Washington
What United Nations diplomat negotiated historic settlement
between Israel and the surrounding Arab states?
Answer: Ralph Bunche
What African American said, “The content of one’s character is the
important thing, not the color of one’s skin”?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the recipient of the first Springarm Award?
Answer: Ernest Everett Just
What athlete bolstered racial pride in the early 1900’s by beating the
“Great White Hope”?
Answer: Jack Jackson.
Who was the first African American to vote in the United States?
Answer: Thomas Peterson
Who led the famous rain on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 in an attempt to free and arm slaves in the area?
Answer: John Brown
Who delivered the famous speech, “Atlanta Compromise” at the Cotton
Exposition in Atlanta?
Answer: Booker T. Washington
Who founded the Chicago Defender which became the most influential
and militant black newspaper?
Answer: Robert Abbott
Who performed on Broadway an acclaimed dramatic interpretation of the events surrounding the 1992 Los
Angeles riots?
Answer: Anna Deavere Smith
What famous photojournalist also directed the moveis Shaft, Sounder,
and Cotton Comes to Harlem?
Answer: Gordon Parks
What African American was the first cultural adviser to the Peace Corps?
Answer: Harry Belafonte
Who was the first African American member of a presidential cabinet?
Answer: Robert Weaver
Who was the first African American to be named U. S. Surgeon General?
Answer: Joycelyn Elders
Who earned the nicknames “the little man’s lawyer” and “Mr. Civil
Rights” for his work on behalf of the poor and minorities?
Answer: Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American astronaut in space?
Answer: Guion Bluford, Jr.
Who was the first African American to serve on the Washington D.C.
Board of Education?
Answer: Dr. Mary Church Terrell
What U.S. president appointed Andrew Young U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Who were John Horse and John Caesar?
Answer: Black Indians who lived with Seminole
Who started the anti-Booker T. Washington campaign that led to the
“Niagara Movement” and the NAACP?
Answer: William Trotter
As register of the U.S. Treaswury Department, whose signature
appeared on every piece of U.S. paper money printed?
Answer: Blanche K. Bruce
In 1955 what 14 year old boy was brutally murdered in Mississippi because he allegedly whistled at a
white woman?
Answer: Emmett Till
Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize in a category
other than peace?
Answer: Sir Arthur Lewis
What was the first black school to establish undergraduate, graduate,
and professional schools?
Answer: Howard University
Who founded the DuSable Museum of African American History, located in
Chicago, Illinois?
Answer: Dr. Margaret Burroughs
What was one of Mary (Stagecoach Mary) Field’s jobs in the Old West?
Answer: Mail Carrier
Who founded an economic program called “People United to Save
Humanity”?
Answer: Jessee Jackson
Who was named associate press secretary to President John F.
Kennedy?
Answer: Andrew Hatcher
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
Answer: Bishop Desmond Tutu
Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961,
forcing U.S. marshals to escort him to class?
Answer: James Meredith
What African American lawyer battled segregation in the military
and the racist poll tax in the South?
Answer: William H. Hastie
Who was the first accredited African American physician in the United
States?
Answer: James Derham
Who founded this nations’s first major African American nationalist
movement?
Answer: Marcus Garvey