1、Photage of Notable Black AmericansPhotage of Notable Black AmericansCreated bySharon HillOctober 13, 2005QQ空間http6665.cc.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, Afri

2、can 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.Wha

3、t 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 a

4、s 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?Wha

5、t African American invented the Traffic Signal and the gas mask?Answer: Alice ParkerAnswer: Garrett A. Morgan.What African American invented the fountain pen?What African American invented the first sculpture?Answer: W. B. PurvisAnswer: Edmonia Lewis.What African American performed the first eye sur

6、gery?What African American invented the stethoscope?Answer: Patricia E. BathAnswer: Imhotep.What African American invented the ironing board?What African American invented the galoshes?Answer: Sarah BooneAnswer: A. L. Rickman.What African American invented the player piano?What African American inve

7、nted the helicopter?Answer: Joseph DickersonAnswer: 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 PickettAnswer: Maurice W. Lee.What African American invented several eata

8、ble and noneatable products from the sweet potato and peanut?What African American invented the letter drop mailbox?Answer: George Washington CarverAnswer: Philip Dowling.What African American invented the video home security system?What African American invented the toilet?Answer: Mary BrownAnswer:

9、 Thomas Elkins.What African American invented a better design for refrigeration?What African American invented and/or patented the dust pan?Answer: Thomas ElkinsAnswer: Lloyd Ray.What African American invented the lunch pail?What African American invented the cabinet bed?Answer: James RobinsonAnswer

10、: 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

11、: George Cook.What African American invented the golf tee?What African American invented the hand stamp?Answer: Henry BlairAnswer: 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 Afri

12、can American invented the key chain?What African American invented the electric lamp?Answer: Frederick J. LoudinAnswer: Lewis Latimer.What African American invented the biscuit cutter?What African American invented the folding bed?Answer: A. P. AshbourneAnswer: L. C. Bailey.What African American inv

13、ented the fire extinguisher?What African American invented the guitar?Answer: T. J. MarshallAnswer: 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 locomot

14、ive smoke stack?What African American invented sheet music?Answer: L. BellAnswer: Frank Johnson.Those who seek knowledge through the pages of a book inherit careers such as ScientistsAthleticsAstronautsPolitical FiguresDoctorsLawyersEducatorsEngineersand a host of others.What was the name of the fir

15、st black owned radio station?What was the name of the first black woman physician?Answer: WERDAnswer: 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 WilliamsAnswer: Oprah Winfrey.What was the

16、name of the first black magazine?What was the name of the first black newspaper?Answer: Mirror of LibertyAnswer: Freedoms 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 HobbsAnswer: John S. Rock.What was the n

17、ame of the African American who invented the mop?What was the name of the first black Winter Olympic gold medal winner?Answer: Thomas W. StewartAnswer: Vanetta Flowers.What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington, D.C.?What antislavery newspaper was founde

18、d by Frederick Douglass?Answer: Ralph AbernathyAnswer: 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 InstituteAnswer: Ralph Bunche.Who was the first

19、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

20、: 1837 Answer: W. D. Ford.What civil rights group was organized on Abraham Lincolns 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 Americ

21、an 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 Equ

22、alityAnswer: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. RowanAnswer: Charlotte E. Ray.What did Carter G. Woodson start in 1926?What African American educator also served as an advis

23、or to five U.S. presidents?Answer: Negro Histroy WeekAnswer: 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. CarneyAnswer: Toni Mor

24、rison.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 ActAnswer: Rainb

25、ow.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 KellyWho 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

26、Jrs first church?Answer: Dexter Avenue Baptist ChurchWho 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 AliWhat legislators eloquent argument for President Nixons

27、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 MuhammadWhat sculptor designed the profile of president Franklin D. Roosevelt that appears on the dime?Answer: Selma

28、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 BaldwinWhat African American was arrested and executed in 1800 for organizing a slave revolt?Answer: Gabriel Prosser.What African American u

29、nion organizer helped open he door for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination?Answer: A. Philip RandolphIn 1829, Walkers Appeal called for what?Answer: Any means necessary to fight slavery.Who was the first African American woman to lecture on antislavery issues?Answer: M

30、aria W. StewartWho 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: Cris

31、pus AttucksWhat leading crusader against lynching founded the first black womens 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 SoldiersWhat famous African American woman ded

32、icated 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. MaysWho advanced the idea of nonviolent protest almost 100 years before Martin Luther King, Jr.?

33、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. WhipperWho was the first African American to receive international recognition as a poet and novelist?Answer: Paul

34、Lawrence Dunbar.The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded by whom?Answer: Dr. Carter G. WoodsonWho 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 sen

35、ator in Congress?Answer: Hiram RevelsWho was the first African American soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War?Answer: Milton Olive.Levi Coffins mid-western operation, which helped slaves toescape, became known as the Underground Railroads what?Answer: Grand Central Stat

36、ionWho 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 BryanWho appointed “Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court?Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson.Who published Fr

37、eedoms Journal, the first African American newspaper?Answer: John RusswurmWho founded the Childrens Defense Fund?Answer: Mariam Wrigt Edelman.In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther King, Jr., Day?Answer: 1993Who was the first African American elected to the U.S. House of Representati

38、ves?Answer: Joseph H. Rainey.Who was the first African American minister ordained in America?Answer: Absalom JonesWho 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?A

39、nswer: Gwendolyn S. KingWho was Chicagos first African American mayor?Answer: Harold Washington.What United Nations diplomat negotiated historic settlement between Israel and the surrounding Arab states?Answer: Ralph BuncheWhat African American said, “The content of ones character is the important t

40、hing, not the color of ones skin?Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.Who was the recipient of the first Springarm Award?Answer: Ernest Everett JustWhat athlete bolstered racial pride in the early 1900s by beating the “Great White Hope?Answer: Jack Jackson.Who was the first African American to vote in the

41、 United States?Answer: Thomas PetersonWho led the famous rain on Harpers 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. WashingtonWho founded the Chic

42、ago 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 SmithWhat famous photojournalist also directed the moveis Shaft,

43、Sounder, and Cotton Comes to Harlem?Answer: Gordon Parks.What African American was the first cultural adviser to the Peace Corps?Answer: Harry BelafonteWho was the first African American member of a presidential cabinet?Answer: Robert Weaver.Who was the first African American to be named U. S. Surge

44、on General?Answer: Joycelyn EldersWho earned the nicknames “the little mans 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 s

45、erve 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 CarterWho were John Horse and John Caesar?Answer: Black Indians who lived with Seminole.Who started the anti-Booker T. Washington