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