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