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. treating someone in a way that denies their human dignity
   Dehumanization
2. First black student at the University of Mississippi (3-day riot over his enrollment)
   James Meredith
3. I am credited with developing blood banks.
   Dr. Charles Drew
4. Worked for the NAACP. Was killed while helping organize voting rights boycotts.
   Medgar Evers
5. Allowed photos of her brutally murdered son to be broadcast to the world
   Mamie Till
6. having less access to the rights of a citizen than other people in or beyond your community
   Second Class Citizenship
7. I am a famous musician known as “The King of the Blues.”
   B.B. King
8. He helped make MLK's birthday a national holiday with the assistance of special lyrics from his “Happy Birthday” song.
   Stevie Wonder
9. Largest peaceful civil rights demonstration in 1963 - featured Dr. King's "I Have a Dream"
   March on Washington
10. I am one of the most famous Jazz singers of all time.
    Billie Holiday
11. This character, T-Challa, first appeared in Marvel comics in 1966.
    Black Panther
12. I am the first African American woman to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of State.
    Condoleezza Rice
13. I have come to be one the greatest basketball players of all time. Led Chicago Bulls to 6 national championships
    Michael Jordan
14. Fought against slavery; abolitionist
    John Brown
15. I invented the gas mask and the first traffic signal.
    Garrett Morgan
16. He was an African American lawyer and a dean of Howard University Law school
    Charles H Houston
17. I developed peanut butter and 400 plant products!
    George Washington Carver
18. I am a famous writer best known for my work about my family’s history called “Roots.”
    Alex Haley
19. I am an African American inventor who invented the air conditioner.
    Frederick Jones
20. I survived 3 assassination attempts during my campaign for the 1972 Presidential election.
    Shirley Chisholm
21. Refusing to do business with someone in order to affect their business practices
    Boycott
22. She was the vice chair of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
    Fannie Lou Hamer
23. Arrested because she would not give up her seat to a white person on a bus one day
    Rosa Parks
24. The first African American general in the U.S army
    Benjamin O Davis Sr
25. I become the first African American millionaire for my invention of hair care products.
    Madam C.J. Walker
26. Led the SCLC, Marched for civil rights non-violently delivered the “I have a Dream Speech.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.
27. I organized the Tuskegee Institute, a leading African-Am. Educational institution in America.
    Booker T. Washington
28. altering a way of doing things, usually to make conditions fair for all
    Systemic Change
29. He was the first African American U.S. Senator
    Edward W Brooke
30. I am the first African-American to win an Oscar for best actor.
    Sidney Portier
31. This Chicago-based African-Amer newspaper was founded in 1905 and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind.
    Chicago Defender
32. I am the first African American woman to launch my own TV Network. I am a talk show host.
    Oprah Winfrey
33. We are the first black teenagers to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
    Little Rock Nine
34. The act of freeing slaves from bondage
    Emancipation
35. I ran for President in the 1980s. I am a civil rights leader.
    Jesse Jackson
36. I am the first African-American woman in space.
    Mae C. Jemison
37. To stop a way of doing things, especially the practice of slavery
    Abolition
38. Major voting rights drive in Mississippi during the summer of 1964
    Mississippi Freedom Summer
39. I am a freed slave who traveled throughout the North preaching emancipation and women’s rights.
    Sojourner Truth
40. supreme court decision that made "Separate but equal" the law in the south (Jim Crow)
    Plessy v. Ferguson
41. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois
    NAACP
42. Northern activists who took integrated bus trips through the segregated south
    Freedom Riders
43. a systemic way of doing things adopted by businesses, government, or other organizations that denies people access to basic rights
    Institutional Racism
44. I am the first African- American allowed to play major league baseball.
    Jackie Robinson
45. I am the first African-American to hold the office of U.S. Secretary of State.
    Colin Powell
46. 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
47. He was the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
    Thurgood Marshall
48. President who signed Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the U.S.
    Abraham Lincoln
49. Organized the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters and negotiated the first labor agreement by a black union with a major corporation.
    Asa Philip Randolph
50. I invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.
    Dr. Patricia E. Bath
51. Founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. I am a Muslim Minister and human rights activist who was assassinated for my efforts.
    Malcolm X
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. I am one of the greatest boxers of all time.
    Muhammad Ali
54. one of the fathers of modern gaming, led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable cartridges.
    Gerald "Jerry" Lawson
55. I am credited with helping to design the blueprints for Washington, D.C.
    Benjamin Banneker
56. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party - organized to fight police brutality in Oakland, CA
    Huey P. Newton
57. was an American businessman and publisher, founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazines.
    John H. Johnson
58. I am one of America’s most honored writers of books for children.
    Virginia Hamilton
59. I escaped slavery and returned to lead others using the Underground Railroad.
    Harriet Tubman
60. I was the first African American child to attend an all white school in the south.
    Ruby Bridges
61. He was a writer a scholar and the founder of the NAACP
    W.E.B. DuBois
62. I encouraged Black migration back to Africa.
    Marcus Garvey
63. Supreme court decision to integrate schools, invalidated "separate but equal"
    Brown v. Board of Education
64. Convicted for contributing to the delinquency of minors when she recruited teenagers for civil rights demonstrations
    Diane Nash
65. Non-violent protests in segregated business where participants sat down and refused to move until they were served
    Sit-ins
66. A system of separation based on race, religion, or other unchosen factors
    Segregation
67. Born a slave, escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist leader.
    Frederick Douglas
68. She fought against the Lynching laws of the 1920s.
    Ida B Wells
69. 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
70. Stands for "historically black college or university"
    HBCU
71. I launched Negro History Week which later evolved into Black History Month.
    Dr. Carter G. Woodson
72. choosing to disobey laws or customs to show that they are unjust
    Civil Disobedience
73. choosing a peaceful means of achieving change
    Non-violence
74. Bridge to Freedom, fighting for voting rights in the deep south
    Selma March