Question | Answer |
Lewis Latimer |
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Elijah McCoy |
| Madame C.J Walker |
| George Washington Carver |
| J. Standard |
| Rebecca Lee Crumpler | First African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
| Lewis Temple |
| Mae C. Jamieson | First African American woman to become an astronaut.
| Jan Matzeliger | Invented the shoe assembly machines; helped with the mass production of shoes.
| Ronald McNair |
| Guion Bluford | Engineer, NASA engineer; became the first African American in space.
| A. Ashbourne | Inventor of the biscuit cutter.
| Dr. Theodore Lawless |
| Granville T. Woods (1856-1910) |
| Percy Julian (1899-1975) |
| Dr. Daniel Hale Williams |
| Garrett Morgan |
| Dr. Charles Drew |
| Sarah Boone |
| Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) |
| Charles Brooks |
| Sarah Goode |
| Lonnie Johnson |
| Ernest Just | Worked with the plasma membrane of biological cells.
| Dr. Alexa Canday | Medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery. First African American woman to become a neurosurgeon in 1981.
| Dr. Ben Carson | African American neurosurgeon who was first to successfully separate a pair of twins who were jointed at the head.
| Dr. Justina Ford | Became Colorado's first African American doctor of Obstetrician.
| Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson | The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and a doctorate in physics.
| Mark E. Dean | One of the top engineering minds at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. He made his first mark in the industry in the early 1980s, when he and a colleague developed a system that allowed computers to communicate with printers and other devices.
| Percy L. Julian | Known as the "soybean chemist", for his extraordinary success in developing innovative drugs and industrial chemicals from natural soya products.
| Booker T. Washington | Prominent black American, born into slavery. Was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
| George W. Carver | A famous botanist, scientist and educator who did a great work with peanuts.
| Jackie Robinson | First African American to integrate Major League Baseball, in 1947.
| Harriet Tubman | Founder and engineer of the undergroound railroad.
| Sojourner Truth | United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | United States civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968). He preached non-violence and was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
| Condoleezza Rice | National Security Advisor who was chosen by George W. Bush to replace Colin Powell as the Secretary of State. First women to lead the National security council.
| Maya Angelou | Acclaimed poet and artist.
| Sidney Poirtier | First black to win Best Actor Oscar.
| Arthur Ashe |
| Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns | Boxer, so nicknamed because of his unique build & destructive punches, his 1981 record: 32-0 (30 KOs). |