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