AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRSTS - Call List

(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.

1. B-Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873
2. C-Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904.
3. E-Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746.
4. A-Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: Barbara Harris, 1989.
5. E-Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969.
6. E-National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of St. Peter Claver, 1909.
7. C-College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849.
8. A-Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977.
9. D-Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979.
10. B-Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000.
11. D-Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949.
12. C-Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921.
13. C-General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940.
14. D-Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967.
15. D-Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875.
16. B-Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983.
17. C-Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893.
18. A-Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001.
19. B-Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885
20. C-President of Girl Scouts, USA, Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975
21. E-Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998.
22. D-Woman U.S. Attorney General: Loretta E. Lynch, 2015.
23. E-Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984.
24. A-Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999
25. B-Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Daniel Hale Williams, 1891.
26. D-Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992.
27. A-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989–1993.
28. D-Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, 1915.
29. B-Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, 1828
30. B-Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917.
31. E-Woman U.S. ambassador:Patricia Harris, 1965.
32. E-Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980.
33. A-President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, 1995.
34. A-Female Dental Surgeon: Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, 1890.
35. C-Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919.
36. B-Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance
37. C-Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in 1905.
38. D-NHL hockey player: Willie O’Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins.
39. C-Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, George Washington Henderson, 1877.
40. D-State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870.
41. C-Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975
42. C-U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869.
43. A-Network news correspondent: Malvin Goode, 1962.
44. A-Woman novelist, Harriett Wilson, 1859.
45. E-Professional baseball player: Moses Fleetwood Walker, 1884
46. B-Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968.
47. B-NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953.
48. A-Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005.
49. E-U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001.
50. D-First Official A.M.E. Church in the U.S: Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1794
51. E-Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921.
52. D-M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847.
53. D-Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906.
54. C-Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture.
55. A-First predominantly black basketball team to win an NCAA championship: The Texas Western Miners, 1966
56. A-Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967.
57. B-U.S Senator (elected) Edward Brooke, 1966.
58. E-Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845.
59. D-Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941.
60. B-Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990.
61. A-Woman Head of Peace Corps: Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, 1964.
62. C-Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990.
63. E-Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864.
64. A-Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957.
65. A-Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640.
66. A-Woman admitted to the bar:Charlotte Ray, 1872.
67. E-World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908.
68. B-First Secret Service Agent, Charles LeRoy Gittens, 1956.
69. C-Male Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): Shani Davis, 2006.
70. D-First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978.
71. B-Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, 1832.
72. B-Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855.
73. D-Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940.
74. E-Women Ph.Ds: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921.
75. B-Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773.
76. C-Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957.
77. A-Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): Alice Coachman, 1948.
78. C-County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869.
79. A-Oldest African American golf club in the US: The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club, 1921.
80. C-Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821.
81. A-Explorer, North Pole: Barbara Hillary, 2007.
82. B-Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893.
83. B-Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863.
84. B-Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958.
85. C-Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923
86. B-Female Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002.
87. E-Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853.
88. C-Company, 1810.
89. C-U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966.
90. D-Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884.
91. C-Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, 1985
92. E-Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986.
93. A-Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870.
94. E-Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007.
95. E-Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997.
96. B-Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965.
97. A-U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778.
98. D-Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970
99. E-NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963.
100. E-Laborers, 1850.
101. B-Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: Lillian Fishburne, 1998.
102. A-U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870.
103. C-M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837.
104. E-Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976.
105. D-Woman to graduate from a college, Lucy Stanton, 1850.
106. B-Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008.
107. C-Pulitzer prize winner:Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950.
108. E-College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856.
109. D-Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): DeHart Hubbard, 1924.
110. E-Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966.
111. E-Major league baseball player in the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson, 1947.
112. C-Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865.
113. A-Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889.
114. C-Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872.
115. E-City mayor: Pierre Caliste Landry, 1868.
116. D-Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988.
117. C-Oldest black Baptist Church in the U.S: First Baptist Church, 1756
118. D-Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950.
119. D-Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907.
120. B-Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993.
121. E-Member of the National Academy of Sciences: David Harold Blackwell, 1965.
122. D-Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter “Doc” Taylor, 1908.
123. D-Black Labor Union: American League of Colored
124. D-Woman’s autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831.
125. A-Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992
126. B-Oldest continuously operating black church in the U.S: Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. 1754
127. A-U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977.
128. A-Professional Golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896.
129. A-Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760.
130. B-Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. .
131. A-State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836.
132. B-Church-Sponsored African American College: Wilberforce University, 1856.
133. D-West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877.
134. D-Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904.
135. E-Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, 1980.
136. A-Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993.
137. C-Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, 1991.
138. B-World cycling champion: Marshall W. “Major” Taylor, 1899.
139. E-Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641
140. D-Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978.
141. C-Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879
142. A-Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, 1900.
143. D-President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA): Lois Jean White, 1995
144. C-Oakland Tribune, 1983
145. B-NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937.
146. C-Radio broadcaster: Jack L. Cooper, 1925.
147. C-U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009.
148. D-Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992.
149. E-Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: Hugh Mulzac, 1942.
150. E-Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949.
151. C-President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter, Jr., 2012
152. E-Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938.
153. E-Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956.
154. B-U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870.
155. A-Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921.
156. D-Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946.
157. A-U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967.
158. A-Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909.
159. D-Female Licensed Nascar Driver: Tia Norfleet, 2016.
160. A-African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794.
161. C-President of the National League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 1994.
162. B-Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989.
163. B-President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002.
164. B-Black-owned metropolitan newspaper: Robert Maynard and the
165. E-Baptist Church:David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1773.
166. D-Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment Television