U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001. Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915. Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756 M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837. Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962. Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942. Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855. Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821. NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963. U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966. Women Ph.Ds: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921. Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940. Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884. Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925. Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904. Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967. Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879 Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992. First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794 First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978. Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997. Oldest African American golf club in the US: The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club, 1921. Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990. Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760. General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940. Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900. Black-owned metropolitan newspaper: Robert Maynard and the County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869. Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986. Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture. Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938. Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863. Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956. Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975 President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995. West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877. Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906. Major league baseball player in the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson, 1947. Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005. Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984. Professional Golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896. Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864. NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937. Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921. Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, 1985 Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970 Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845. Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988. Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832. Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967. World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 1899. Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859. Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989. Laborers, 1850. Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923 NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins. Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891. Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949. Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957. Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941. Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. . Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993. M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847. Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905. Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907. Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957. Oakland Tribune, 1983 Professional baseball player: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884 Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969. U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966. World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908. President of the National Parent- Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995 African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794. Black Labor Union: American League of Colored President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson- Jenkins, 1994. College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849. Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909. Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007. Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872. Member of the National Academy of Sciences: David Harold Blackwell, 1965. U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870. Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991. NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953. Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966. U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977. Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904. Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890. President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975 Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921. Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983. Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875. Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980. Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946. Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856. City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868. Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979. Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990. National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909. Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924. Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870. Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992 Female Licensed Nascar Driver: Tia Norfleet, 2016. First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956. U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967. President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002. Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885 Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965. Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976. Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893. Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921. Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980. Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641 Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746. Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865. Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949. Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999 Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992. Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773. Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965. Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873 Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773. Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000. Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978. Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850. Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964. U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778. College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856. State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836. Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998. Company, 1810. Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917. Female Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002. Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853. Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): Alice Coachman, 1948. U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869. Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989– 1993. Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007. Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 1908. U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870. Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831. Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893. Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950. Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977. Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001. Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958. First predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA championship: The Texas Western Miners, 1966 Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754 Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640. U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009. Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993. Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989. President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012 Male Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006. Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968. Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872. Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015. State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870. Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889. Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919. Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877. Pulitzer prize winner:Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950. Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998. U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001. Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915. Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756 M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837. Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962. Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942. Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855. Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821. NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963. U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966. Women Ph.Ds: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921. Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940. Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884. Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925. Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904. Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967. Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879 Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992. First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794 First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978. Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997. Oldest African American golf club in the US: The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club, 1921. Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990. Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760. General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940. Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900. Black-owned metropolitan newspaper: Robert Maynard and the County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869. Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986. Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture. Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938. Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863. Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956. Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975 President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995. West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877. Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906. Major league baseball player in the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson, 1947. Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005. Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984. Professional Golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896. Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864. NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937. Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921. Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, 1985 Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970 Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845. Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988. Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832. Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967. World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 1899. Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859. Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989. Laborers, 1850. Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923 NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins. Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891. Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949. Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957. Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941. Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. . Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993. M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847. Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905. Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907. Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957. Oakland Tribune, 1983 Professional baseball player: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884 Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969. U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966. World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908. President of the National Parent- Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995 African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794. Black Labor Union: American League of Colored President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson- Jenkins, 1994. College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849. Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909. Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007. Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872. Member of the National Academy of Sciences: David Harold Blackwell, 1965. U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870. Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991. NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953. Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966. U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977. Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904. Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890. President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975 Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921. Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983. Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875. Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980. Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946. Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856. City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868. Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979. Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990. National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909. Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924. Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870. Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992 Female Licensed Nascar Driver: Tia Norfleet, 2016. First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956. U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967. President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002. Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885 Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965. Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976. Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893. Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921. Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980. Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641 Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746. Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865. Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949. Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999 Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992. Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773. Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965. Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873 Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773. Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000. Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978. Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850. Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964. U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778. College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856. State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836. Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998. Company, 1810. Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917. Female Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002. Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853. Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): Alice Coachman, 1948. U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869. Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989– 1993. Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007. Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 1908. U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870. Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831. Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893. Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950. Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977. Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001. Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958. First predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA championship: The Texas Western Miners, 1966 Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754 Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640. U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009. Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993. Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989. President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012 Male Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006. Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968. Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872. Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015. State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870. Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889. Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919. Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877. Pulitzer prize winner:Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950. Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998.
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
E-U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001.
D-Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915.
C-Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756
C-M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837.
A-Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962.
E-Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942.
B-Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855.
C-Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821.
E-NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963.
B-U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966.
E-Women Ph.Ds: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921.
D-Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940.
D-Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884.
C-Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925.
C-Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904.
D-Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967.
C-Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879
D-Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992.
D-First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794
D-First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978.
E-Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997.
A-Oldest African American golf club in the US: The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club, 1921.
B-Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990.
A-Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760.
C-General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940.
A-Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900.
B-Black-owned metropolitan newspaper: Robert Maynard and the
C-County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869.
E-Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986.
C-Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture.
E-Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938.
B-Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863.
E-Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956.
C-Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975
A-President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995.
D-West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877.
D-Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906.
E-Major league baseball player in the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson, 1947.
B-Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance
A-Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005.
E-Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984.
A-Professional Golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896.
E-Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864.
B-NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937.
C-Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921.
C-Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, 1985
D-Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970
E-Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845.
D-Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988.
B-Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832.
A-Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967.
B-World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 1899.
A-Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859.
B-Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989.
E-Laborers, 1850.
C-Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923
D-NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins.
B-Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891.
D-Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949.
C-Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957.
D-Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941.
D-Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television
B-Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. .
B-Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993.
D-M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847.
C-Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905.
D-Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907.
A-Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957.
C-Oakland Tribune, 1983
E-Professional baseball player: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884
E-Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969.
C-U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966.
E-World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908.
D-President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995
A-African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794.
D-Black Labor Union: American League of Colored
C-President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 1994.
C-College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849.
A-Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909.
E-Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007.
C-Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872.
E-Member of the National Academy of Sciences: David Harold Blackwell, 1965.
A-U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870.
C-Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991.
B-NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953.
E-Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966.
A-U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977.
D-Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904.
A-Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890.
C-President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975
A-Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921.
B-Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983.
D-Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875.
E-Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980.
D-Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946.
B-Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856.
E-City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868.
D-Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979.
C-Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990.
E-National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909.
D-Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924.
A-Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870.
A-Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992
D-Female Licensed Nascar Driver: Tia Norfleet, 2016.
B-First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956.
A-U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967.
B-President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002.
B-Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885
E-Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965.
E-Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976.
C-Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893.
E-Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921.
E-Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980.
E-Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641
E-Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746.
C-Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865.
E-Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949.
A-Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999
D-Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992.
E-Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773.
B-Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965.
B-Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873
B-Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773.
B-Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000.
D-Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978.
D-Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850.
A-Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964.
A-U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778.
E-College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856.
A-State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836.
B-Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998.
C-Company, 1810.
B-Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917.
B-Female Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002.
E-Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853.
A-Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): Alice Coachman, 1948.
C-U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869.
B-Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828
A-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989–1993.
A-Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007.
D-Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 1908.
B-U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870.
D-Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831.
B-Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893.
D-Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950.
A-Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977.
A-Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001.
B-Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958.
A-First predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA championship: The Texas Western Miners, 1966
B-Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754
A-Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640.
C-U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009.
A-Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993.
A-Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989.
C-President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012
C-Male Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006.
B-Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968.
A-Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872.
D-Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015.
D-State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870.
A-Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889.
C-Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919.
B-Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008.
C-Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877.
C-Pulitzer prize winner:Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950.
E-Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998.