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. Dana Canedy (Simon & Schuster publishing executive)
2. Charles Q. Brown Jr. (U.S. Commanding Officer)
3. Madame CJ Walker
4. Cori Bush (congresswoman)
5. Langston Hughes
6. Whitney Houston (singer)
7. Nipsey Hussle (rapper)
8. Elijah McCoy (steam engine lubrication inventor with 57 U.S. patents)
9. Rashida Jones (MSNBC president)
10. James Brown (singer)
11. Ella Baker (Civil Rights activist)
12. Halle Berry
13. Rhianna (singer and designer)
14. Brandy (actress and singer)
15. Dan Peebles (Black developer who aims to build New York’s tallest skyscraper)
16. Bessie Coleman
17. Condoleezza Rice (politician)
18. Alicia Keys (singer)
19. Cleo Wade (artist and poet)
20. Octavia V. Catto (activist)
21. Jesse Collins (super bowl producer)
22. Sarah Boone (ironing board inventor)
23. Arthur Ashe
24. Ray Charles (musician)
25. Duke Ellington
26. Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter founder)
27. Tina Turner (singer)
28. Susan Rice (diplomat and politician)
29. Althea Gibson
30. Prince (musician)
31. Rosalind Brewer (Walgreen’s CEO)
32. Alicia Boler Davis (VP Global Customer Fulfillment at Amazon)
33. Billie Holliday (singer)
34. Patti Labelle (singer)
35. Aisha “Pinky” Cole (plant-based restauranteur)
36. Josephine Baker (the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon)
37. Robert F. Smith (Chair of Vista Equity Partners)
38. Nina Simone (musician)
39. Maya Angelou
40. Emancipation Proclamation
41. Phylicia Rashad (singer and actress)
42. Claudette Colvin (Civil Rights activist)
43. Marian Anderson (singer)
44. Opal Tometi (Black Lives Matter founder)
45. Dianna Ross (singer)
46. Jennifer Hudson (singer)
47. Muhammad Ali
48. Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1st Black female doctor in the U.S.)
49. Gwendolyn Brooks
50. Sojourner Truth
51. William D. Davis
52. Alvin Ailey (performance artist)
53. Malcolm X (Civil Rights leader)
54. Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights leader)
55. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (founder of the Chicago Defender)
56. Snoop Dog (rapper)
57. Mae Jemison (1st African American in space)
58. Jessie Jackson
59. Wilma Rudolph
60. Loius Armstrong (musician)
61. Ermias Tadesse (BlackGen Capital co-founder)
62. Missy Elliot (musician)
63. Reggie Jackson
64. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (singer and songwriter)
65. Queen Latifah (musician and actress)
66. Sugar Ray Leonard
67. Dr. Patricia Bath (doctor and inventor of laser cataract surgery)
68. Loretta Lynch (1st Black woman attorney general of the U.S.)
69. Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder)
70. Ryan Williams (Cadre CEO)
71. Jackie Robinson
72. Jason Wright (NFL president
73. Marsha P. Johnson (Black LGBTQ activist)
74. Alice H. Parker (gas furnace inventor)
75. Angela Davis (political activist)
76. Toni Morrison
77. Victor J. Glover (astronaut and pilot of SpaceX Crew Dragon)
78. H.E.R. (musician)
79. Janet Jackson (singer)
80. Harriet Tubman
81. Bessie Coleman (1st African American aviator with a pilot’s license)
82. Jackie Robinson
83. Web Dubois
84. Joe Louis
85. Sylvester J. Fletcher
86. Annie Lee Cooper (voting rights activist)
87. Robert F. Flemmings Jr.
88. Stevie Wonder (musician)
89. Jessie Owens
90. Ella Fitzgerald (singer)
91. Cheick Camara (BlackGen Capital co-founder)
92. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1st Black American military general)
93. Porter Braswell (Jopwell co-founder)
94. Sojourner Truth (activist)
95. Ice Cube (rapper)
96. James C. Evans
97. Jim Crow Laws
98. Samuel T. Crawford
99. Bayard Rustin (Civil Rights activist)
100. James Forten (inventor of ship sails)
101. Joe Louis
102. Marvin Gaye (singer)
103. Ledisi (musician)
104. Marian Anderson
105. Hattie McDaniel
106. Alice Ball (chemist)
107. Trina Parks (singer and actress)
108. Jackie Joyner
109. Kareem Abdul
110. Thomas L. Jennings (dry cleaning inventor)
111. Melody Hobson (Starbucks board chair)
112. John Coltrane (musician)
113. Kamala Harris (Vice President of the United States)
114. Rosa Parks
115. Jane Bolin (1st Black female judge in the U.S.)
116. Jackie Robinson
117. Thurgood Marshall- Supreme Court Justice
118. Tony Elumelu (entrepreneur and chair of Heirs Holdings)
119. Shirley Chisholm (1st Black woman elected to Congress)
120. Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett (infectious diseases scientist behind COVID-vaccine)
121. Hariet Tubman
122. Muhammad Ali
123. Minnie Riperton (singer)
124. Sean “P Diddy” Combs (entrepreneur, designer, and rapper)
125. Aretha Franklin (singer)
126. Taran Burke (#MeToo activist)
127. Aicha Evans (CEO at Zoox)
128. Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum (Ebola researcher and microbiologist)
129. Tourmaline (activist and filmmaker)
130. Plessy v. Ferguson
131. LL Cool J (rapper)
132. Otis Boykin (electrical engineer and pacemaker inventor)
133. Sarah E. Goode
134. Nia DaCosta (director)
135. Marie Van Brittan Brown (security system inventor)
136. James Meredith
137. Oprah Winfrey
138. Berry Gordy, Jr.
139. Robert L. Johnson (co-founder of BET (acquired by Viacom in 2001))
140. John H. Evans
141. Dorothy Height (YWCA Leader & the “godmother of the women’s movement”)
142. Amy Sherald (painter)
143. Gordon Parks (photographer and film director)
144. George Washington Carver (scientist)
145. William A. Deltz
146. Rachael Rollins (US attorney for Massachusetts, the first Black woman to hold the office in state history)
147. Bozoma Saint John (Netflix Chief Marketing Officer)
148. Dr. Carter G. Woodson
149. Ritchie Torres (politician)
150. Thurgood Marshall
151. Charles Wade (co-founded Operation Help
152. David A. Fisher
153. Barack Obama (U.S. President)
154. Abubacarr Tambadou (politician)
155. Frederick Douglass
156. Clarence Thomas-Supreme Court Justice
157. Medgar Evers (Civil Rights activist)
158. The Greensboro Four
159. L. Londell McMillan (NorthStar Group publisher)
160. Stacey Abrams (politician)
161. "Little Rock Nine"
162. Tiger Woods
163. Rosa Parks (Civil Rights activist)
164. Nat King Cole
165. Muddy Water (singer)
166. Michael Jordon
167. The Weeknd (musician)
168. Cynt Marshall (NBA’s 1st Black female CEO)
169. Big Mama Thornton (singer)
170. Michael Jackson (singer)
171. Shelia Johnson (founder of Black Entertainment Television)
172. Bob Marley (musician)
173. Lionel Ritchie (musician)
174. Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and planetary scientist)
175. Frederick Jones (inventor of refrigeration)
176. Louis W. Freeman