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