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Photage of Notable Black Americans

Photage of Notable Black Americans. Photage of Notable Black Americans. Created by Sharon Hill October 13, 2005. Purpose: .

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Photage of Notable Black Americans

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  1. Photage of Notable Black Americans Photage of Notable Black Americans Created by Sharon Hill October 13, 2005

  2. 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.

  3. SlaveryDetermination+ PerseveranceFreedom

  4. What slave committed murder so that she and her children would be free? Answer: Margaret Garner

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. What slave found freedom by winning his fight with the judicial system and was sent back to Africa? Answer: Joseph Cinque

  8. CreativityImagination+ NeedInventions

  9. 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

  10. What African American invented the fountain pen? What African American invented the first sculpture? Answer: W. B. Purvis Answer: Edmonia Lewis

  11. What African American performed the first eye surgery? What African American invented the stethoscope? Answer: Patricia E. Bath Answer: Imhotep

  12. What African American invented the ironing board? What African American invented the galoshes? Answer: A. L. Rickman Answer: Sarah Boone

  13. What African American invented the player piano? What African American invented the helicopter? Answer: Paul E. Williams Answer: Joseph Dickerson

  14. What African American cowboy is credited with originating the rodeo sport called “bulldogging”? What African American invented the pressure cooker? Answer: Maurice W. Lee Answer: Bill Pickett

  15. 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

  16. What African American invented the video home security system? What African American invented the toilet? Answer: Mary Brown Answer: Thomas Elkins

  17. 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

  18. What African American invented the lunch pail? What African American invented the cabinet bed? Answer: James Robinson Answer: Sarah E. Goode

  19. What African American invented the super soaker? What African American invented the coin changer? Answer: Lonnie Johnson Answer: James A. Bauer

  20. What African American invented the disposable syringe? What African American invented the automatic fishing device? Answer: H. Bradberry Answer: George Cook

  21. What African American invented the golf tee? What African American invented the hand stamp? Answer: W. B. Purvis Answer: Henry Blair

  22. What African American invented the baby buggy? What African American invented the roller coaster? Answer: Granville T. Woods Answer: Rufus J. Weaver

  23. What African American invented the key chain? What African American invented the electric lamp? Answer: Frederick J. Loudin Answer: Lewis Latimer

  24. What African American invented the biscuit cutter? What African American invented the folding bed? Answer: A. P. Ashbourne Answer: L. C. Bailey

  25. What African American invented the fire extinguisher? What African American invented the guitar? Answer: T. J. Marshall Answer: F. Flemings, Jr.

  26. What African American invented the library table? What African American invented luggage carriers? Answer: W. R. Davis, Jr. Answer: J. W. Butts

  27. What African American invented the locomotive smoke stack? What African American invented sheet music? Answer: L. Bell Answer: Frank Johnson

  28. 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.

  29. What was the name of the first black owned radio station? Answer: WERD What was the name of the first black woman physician? Answer: Robecca Lee

  30. What was the name of the first black Miss America? Answer: Vanessa Williams What was the name of the first black woman to own her own television station? Answer: Oprah Winfrey

  31. What was the name of the first black magazine? Answer: Mirror of Liberty What was the name of the first black newspaper? Answer: Freedom’s Journal

  32. What was the name of the African American to graduate from Dental School? Answer: Lucy Hobbs What was the name of the first black lawyer? Answer: John S. Rock

  33. What was the name of the African American who invented the mop? Answer: Thomas W. Stewart What was the name of the first black Winter Olympic gold medal winner? Answer: Vanetta Flowers

  34. What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.? Answer: Ralph Abernathy What antislavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass? Answer: The North Star

  35. What is the name of the educational institution that was established by Booker T. Washington? Answer:Tuskegee Institute Who was the first African American official in the U.S. State Department? Answer: Ralph Bunche

  36. Who was the first African American congress woman from the South? Answer: Barbara Jordan Who advocated “equality for every man, self defense, and self help”? Answer: Malcolm X

  37. Cheyney State, considered the oldest African American collee in the United States was founded in what year? Answer: 1837 Who founded the Nation of Islam? Answer: W. D. Ford

  38. What civil rights group was organized on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1909 in New York City? Answer: NAACP The first four-year accredited college was founded by whom? Answer: Mary McLeod Bethune

  39. Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? Answer: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale Who was the first African American to preside over a national political convention? Answer: John Roy Lunch

  40. James Farmer was executive director of what organization? Answer:Congress of Racial Equality What successful black businessman worked to establishindependent colonies in Africa for freed slaves? Answer:Paul Cuffe

  41. In 1964, who was named the director of the United States Information Agency? Answer: Carl T. Rowan Who became the first African American female lawyer in 1872? Answer: Charlotte E. Ray

  42. What did Carter G. Woodson start in 1926? Answer: Negro Histroy Week What African American educator also served as an advisor to five U.S. presidents? Answer: Mary McCloud Bethune

  43. Who was the first black soldier to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for his outstanding bravery? Answer: William H. Carney Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Answer: Toni Morrison

  44. What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accomodations for blacks? Answer: Mitchell vs. U.S. Interstate Commerce Act What was the name of the ship that made the first voyage from the North American colonies to bring back slaves from Africa? Answer: Rainbow

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

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