Black Culture 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. One of the most successful Black economies in American history.
   Black Wall Street
2. Track star who overcame asthma and won 6 Olympic medals.
   Jackie Joyner Kersee
3. Novelist, playwright, social critic.
   James Baldwin
4. Refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955.
   Rosa Parks
5. Began her speaking career in high school as an anti-lynching activist.
   Dr. Dorothy Height
6. Free!
7. First Black woman elected to U.S. Congress.
   Shirley Chisholm
8. Professional tennis player and philanthropist. Many consider her the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).
   Serena Williams
9. First Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960.
   Ruby Bridges
10. Jamaican, singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and activist.
    Bob Marley
11. Media network owner, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.
    Oprah Winfrey
12. Professional boxer and activist. Considered the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).
    Muhammad Ali
13. Considered one of the best and most influential jazz vocalists of all time.
    Billie Holiday
14. Born enslaved in Maryland & learned to read & write at 12 years old.
    Frederick Douglass
15. First Black female self-made millionaire in America. Developed beauty and hair products for Black women.
    Madam C.J. Walker
16. Son of former slaves from Kentucky who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Held 57 patents, many related to steam engines.
    Elijah McCoy
17. Founder of Chicago in 1779.
    Jean Baptiste Point DuSable
18. Wrote her most famous novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in Haiti.
    Zora Neale Hurston
19. American ballerina.
    Misty Copeland
20. Civil Rights activist from Mississippi. Worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, & access to public facilities.
    Medgar Evers
21. Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born Malcolm Little.
    Malcolm X
22. First American woman to win 3 gold medals in Track & Field.
    Wilma Rudolph
23. Political & social protest campaign against the racial segregation with the public transit system of Montgomery, lasted 381 days.
    Montgomery Bus Boycott
24. Woman whose cancer cell culture was used to create one of the most important cell lines in cancer research in 1951.
    Henrietta Lacks
25. Successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection overthrowing the French.
    Haitian Revolution
26. Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, orator, and proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement.
    Marcus Garvey
27. Jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, & civil right activist. Wrote song "Feeling Good" and "I put a spell on you".
    Nina Simone
28. The 49th Vice President of the United States.
    Kamala Harris
29. A self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and farmer.
    Benjamin Banneker
30. Raised awareness of the oppression of women.
    Ida B. Wells
31. First African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,
    Toni Morrison
32. Co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966.
    Huey P. Newton, Ph.D.
33. Launched the celebration of "Negro History Week" in 1926, later renamed Black History Month.
    Carter G. Woodson
34. First Black woman to hold a pilot license. Known as "Queen Bess".
    Bessie Coleman
35. Nine months before Rosa Parks, she refused to move from her seat on a bus.
    Claudette Colvin
36. Entertainer and French resistance activist. Spoke at the March on Washington by the side of Dr. King.
    Josephine Baker
37. Researches feminism, Black studies, popular music and social consciousness.
    Angela Davis
38. Served as the 44th President of the United States.
    Barack Obama
39. Educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist.
    Mary McLeod Bethune
40. Athlete and performing artist who became involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
    Paul Robeson
41. Enslaved African-American who led a rebellion of slaves and free Blacks.
    Nat Turner
42. Escaped slave, abolitionist, and spy during the Civil War.
    Harriet Tubman
43. First Black woman to win an Oscar for portrayal in "Gone with the Wind."
    Hattie McDaniel
44. A cultural, social, and artistic explosion.
    Harlem Renaissance
45. Research chemist & pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
    Percy Julian
46. Abolitionist and Civil Rights advocate. Changed her name from Isabella Bornfree.
    Sojourner Truth
47. U.S. attorney in Chicago in 1973. First Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
    Carol Moseley Braun
48. First person to reach the North Pole in 1909.
    Matthew Henson