African American History Month - 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. an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She also an award winning author. Michelle Obama
   Michelle Obama
2. the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license and was the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license Bessie Coleman
   Bessie Coleman
3. an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr.
   Martin Luther King Jr.
4. an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Claudette C
   Claudette Colvin
5. an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 Ruby Bridges
   Ruby Bridges
6. an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman
   Sojourner Truth
7. is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that includes rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. Stevie Wonder
   Stevie Wonder
8. also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, rapper, and film producer.. The highest paid black actor in history Will Smith
   Will Smith
9. an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. Malcolm X
   Malcolm X
10. the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department Jane Bolin
    Jane Bolin
11. an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mae Carol Jemison
    Mae Jemison
12. an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress. Shirley Chisholm
    Shirley Chisholm
13. an American television personality, actress, and entrepreneur whose syndicated daily talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, was among the most popular of the genre. She became one of the richest and most influential women in the United States. Oprah
    Oprah Winfrey
14. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court. The Women's Tennis Association ranked her singles world No. 1 on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2
    Serena Williams
15. an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
16. as an American rapper. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid-2000s, Nipsey Hussle
    Nipsey Hussle
17. an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. He was the court's first African-American justice. Thurgood Marshall
    Thurgood Marshall
18. an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. Maya A
    Maya Angelou
19. an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records Madam CJ Walker
    Madam C.J. Walker
20. an American writer and activist. As a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems James Baldwin
    James Baldwin
21. elected as the first Black Male Student Body President in Harvard's 386-year history Noah Harris
    Noah Harris
22. a Barbadian singer, actress, fashion designer, and businesswoman. Rihanna
    Rihanna
23. the first African-American woman to have a film debut at number one upon opening weekend. Nia DaCosta
    Nia DaCosta
24. American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asia
    Kamala Harris