Living Black History Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. 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. Fought against slavery; abolitionist
   John Brown
2. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois
   NAACP
3. Worked for the NAACP. Was killed while helping organize voting rights boycotts.
   Medgar Evers
4. This character, T-Challa, first appeared in Marvel comics in 1966.
   Black Panther
5. She fought against the Lynching laws of the 1920s.
   Ida B Wells
6. The first African American general in the U.S army
   Benjamin O Davis Sr
7. I am the first African- American allowed to play major league baseball.
   Jackie Robinson
8. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party - organized to fight police brutality in Oakland, CA
   Huey P. Newton
9. I developed peanut butter and 400 plant products!
   George Washington Carver
10. I am the first African-American to hold the office of U.S. Secretary of State.
    Colin Powell
11. Born a slave, escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist leader.
    Frederick Douglas
12. He was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
    Thurgood Marshall
13. To stop a way of doing things, especially the practice of slavery
    Abolition
14. Largest peaceful civil rights demonstration in 1963 - featured Dr. King's "I Have a Dream"
    March on Washington
15. I organized the Tuskegee Institute, a leading African-Am. Educational institution in America.
    Booker T. Washington
16. This Chicago-based African-Amer newspaper was founded in 1905 and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind.
    Chicago Defender
17. She was the vice chair of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
    Fannie Lou Hamer
18. The act of freeing slaves from bondage
    Emancipation
19. supreme court decision that made "Separate but equal" the law in the south (Jim Crow)
    Plessy v. Ferguson
20. A system of separation based on race, religion, or other unchosen factors
    Segregation
21. I am the first African-American to win an Oscar for best actor.
    Sidney Portier
22. We are the first black teenagers to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
    Little Rock Nine
23. Allowed photos of her brutally murdered son to be broadcast to the world
    Mamie Till
24. He was an African American lawyer and a dean of Howard University Law school
    Charles H Houston
25. was an American businessman and publisher, founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazines.
    John H. Johnson
26. having less access to the rights of a citizen than other people in or beyond your community
    Second Class Citizenship
27. First black student at the University of Mississippi (3-day riot over his enrollment)
    James Meredith
28. I am a famous musician known as “The King of the Blues.”
    B.B. King
29. Founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. I am a Muslim Minister and human rights activist who was assassinated for my efforts.
    Malcolm X
30. Non-violent protests in segregated business where participants sat down and refused to move until they were served
    Sit-ins
31. This Queen of Soul was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period.
    Aretha Franklin
32. I have come to be one the greatest basketball players of all time. Led Chicago Bulls to 6 national championships
    Michael Jordan
33. Bridge to Freedom, fighting for voting rights in the deep south
    Selma March
34. He helped make MLK's birthday a national holiday with the assistance of special lyrics from his “Happy Birthday” song.
    Stevie Wonder
35. I am a freed slave who traveled throughout the North preaching emancipation and women’s rights.
    Sojourner Truth
36. I am one of America’s most honored writers of books for children.
    Virginia Hamilton
37. I am the first African American woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of State.
    Condoleezza Rice
38. Northern activists who took integrated bus trips through the segregated south
    Freedom Riders
39. Convicted for contributing to the delinquency of minors when she recruited teenagers for civil rights demonstrations
    Diane Nash
40. This NBA all-star became the first athlete and the African American to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film, Dear Basketball. He was a credited writer for the project.
    Kobe Bryant
41. I encouraged Black migration back to Africa.
    Marcus Garvey
42. Organized the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters and negotiated the first labor agreement by a black union with a major corporation.
    Asa Philip Randolph
43. I am the first African-American woman in space.
    Mae C. Jemison
44. Arrested because she would not give up her seat to a white person on a bus one day
    Rosa Parks
45. I become the first African American millionaire for my invention of hair care products.
    Madam C.J. Walker
46. altering a way of doing things, usually to make conditions fair for all
    Systemic Change
47. choosing a peaceful means of achieving change
    Non-violence
48. I am an African American inventor who invented the air conditioner.
    Frederick Jones
49. I am a famous writer best known for my work about my family’s history called “Roots.”
    Alex Haley
50. I survived 3 assassination attempts during my campaign for the 1972 Presidential election.
    Shirley Chisholm
51. Refusing to do business with someone in order to affect their business practices
    Boycott
52. Born Sean Carter, this rapper, record producer, and business mogul is regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists of his generation
    Jay Z
53. He was the first African American U.S. Senator
    Edward W Brooke
54. Major voting rights drive in Mississippi during the summer of 1964
    Mississippi Freedom Summer
55. a systemic way of doing things adopted by businesses, government, or other organizations that denies people access to basic rights
    Institutional Racism
56. I am credited with helping to design the blueprints for Washington, D.C.
    Benjamin Banneker
57. He was a writer a scholar and the founder of the NAACP
    W.E.B. DuBois
58. I am one of the most famous Jazz singers of all time.
    Billie Holiday
59. treating someone in a way that denies their human dignity
    Dehumanization
60. I ran for President in the 1980s. I am a civil rights leader.
    Jesse Jackson
61. I escaped slavery and returned to lead others using the Underground Railroad.
    Harriet Tubman
62. I am credited with developing blood banks.
    Dr. Charles Drew
63. one of the fathers of modern gaming, led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable cartridges.
    Gerald "Jerry" Lawson
64. President who signed Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the U.S.
    Abraham Lincoln
65. I invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.
    Dr. Patricia E. Bath
66. I am the first African American woman to launch my own TV Network. I am a talk show host.
    Oprah Winfrey
67. Supreme court decision to integrate schools, invalidated "separate but equal"
    Brown v. Board of Education
68. I invented the gas mask and the first traffic signal.
    Garrett Morgan
69. I was the first African American child to attend an all white school in the south.
    Ruby Bridges
70. Stands for "historically black college or university"
    HBCU
71. choosing to disobey laws or customs to show that they are unjust
    Civil Disobedience
72. Led the SCLC, Marched for civil rights non-violently delivered the “I have a Dream Speech.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.
73. I am one of the greatest boxers of all time.
    Muhammad Ali
74. I launched Negro History Week which later evolved into Black History Month.
    Dr. Carter G. Woodson