"Say My Name" Black Leaders 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. First Black Major League Baseball player
   Jackie Robinson
2. Educator and leader. Founded Tuskegee Institute.
   Booker T. Washington
3. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Wrote "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved".
   Toni Morrison
4. Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born Malcolm Little.
   Malcolm X
5. Nine months before Rosa Parks, she refused to move from her seat on a bus.
   Claudette Colvin
6. Won Nobel Peace Prize for work in the Middle East
   Ralph Bunche
7. First Black woman to win 3 gold medals in an Olympics
   Wilma Rudolph
8. He is a civil rights activist, presidential candidate and international hostage negotiator.
   Jesse Jackson
9. Entertainer and French resistance activist. Spoke at the March on Washington by the side of Dr. King.
   Josephine Baker
10. He won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
    Jesse Owens
11. Wrote her most famous novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in Haiti.
    Zora Neale Hurston
12. Talented trumpet player. Nicknamed "Satchmo" or "Pops"
    Louis Armstrong
13. invented traffic signal and gas mask
    Garrett Morgan
14. He was born into slavery, but he escaped and became a leader in the fight against slavery.
    Frederick Douglass
15. He helped Malcolm X write his autobiography and wrote the book "Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
    Alex Haley
16. Worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Ralph D. Abernathy
17. He was a star for the University of North Carolina and the Chicago Bulls.Many believe he is the greatest of all time.
    Michael Jordan
18. Woman whose cancer cell culture was used to create one of the most important cell lines in cancer research in 1951.
    Henrietta Lacks
19. Youngest person to win golf's Masters Tournament
    Tiger Woods
20. He was Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush. He was a 4-Star General.
    Colin Powell
21. First black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet position
    Patricia Roberts Harris
22. first person to stand at the North Pole
    Matthew Henson
23. Civil Rights activist from Mississippi. Worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, & access to public facilities.
    Medgar Evers
24. first Black male astronaut
    Guion Bluford
25. Invented new ways to keep things cold
    Fred Jones
26. Enslaved African-American who led a rebellion of slaves and free Blacks.
    Nat Turner
27. Female poet, author and civil rights activist
    Maya Angelou
28. Author and lawyer born on the south side of Chicago.
    Michelle Obama
29. American ballerina.
    Misty Copeland
30. Track star who overcame asthma and won 6 Olympic medals.
    Jackie Joyner Kersee
31. He was the first Black person to star in movies.
    Sidney Poitier
32. First Black woman to get a pilot's license
    Bessie Coleman
33. Novelist, playwright, social critic.
    James Baldwin
34. American jazz singer
    Billie Holiday
35. Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, orator, and proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement.
    Marcus Garvey
36. Jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, & civil right activist. Wrote song "Feeling Good" and "I put a spell on you".
    Nina Simone
37. His magazines, Ebony and Jet, featured stories about African American people, their lives, and their accomplishments.
    John H. Johnson
38. Also known as the "King of Pop"
    Michael Jackson
39. First Black General in the U.S. Air Force
    Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
40. Football player for the Chicago Bears. Nicknamed "Sweetness"
    Walter Payton
41. A self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and farmer.
    Benjamin Banneker
42. Lead enslaved people through the Underground Railroad
    Harriet Tubman
43. Began her speaking career in high school as an anti-lynching activist.
    Dr. Dorothy Height
44. Co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966.
    Huey P. Newton
45. U.S. attorney in Chicago in 1973. First Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
    Carol Mosley Braun
46. First black female tennis player and golfer
    Althea Gibson
47. Professional tennis player and philanthropist. Many consider her the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).
    Serena Williams
48. Refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955.
    Rosa Parks
49. First woman and the first African American national security adviser
    Condoleeza Rice
50. A politician who fought for civil rights. He led the march from Selma to Montgomery.
    John Lewis
51. Blind singer and songwriter
    Stevie Wonder
52. Famous movie director from Brooklyn, New York
    Spike Lee
53. Media network owner, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.
    Oprah Winfrey
54. She fought for civil rights & advised the President
    Mary McCleod Bethune
55. Launched the celebration of "Negro History Week" in 1926, later renamed Black History Month.
    
56. First Black female Supreme Court Justice
    Ketanji Brown Jackson
57. Gave "Ain't I a Woman" speech.Changed her name from Isabella Bornfree.
    Sojourner Truth
58. Jamaican, singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and activist.
    Bob Marley
59. important architect and teacher
    Robert Robinson Taylor
60. First Black man to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles title
    Arthur Ashe
61. First Black woman elected to U.S. Congress.
    Shirley Chisholm
62. Wrote "Invisible Man" about the life of Black people
    Ralph Ellison
63. Gave the "I Have a Dream" Speech
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
64. Researches feminism, Black studies, popular music and social consciousness.
    Angela Davis
65. Scientist known for his work with peanuts
    George Washington Carver
66. First Black woman to win an Oscar for portrayal in "Gone with the Wind."
    Hattie McDaniel
67. Greatest Boxer of all Time
    Muhammad Ali
68. Founder of Chicago in 1779.
    Jean Baptiste Point DuSable
69. First Black Supreme Court Justice
    Thurgood Marshall
70. This entrepreneur guided the Jackson 5 to the top of the music charts.
    Barry Gordy Jr.
71. Served as the 44th President of the United States.
    Barack Obama
72. She was really good at math and used her skills to help send astronauts to the moon.
    Katherine Johnson
73. Athlete and performing artist who became involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
    Paul Robeson
74. I made improvements to the ironing board invention
    Sarah Boone
75. Research chemist & pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
    Percy Julian
76. Son of former slaves from Kentucky who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Held 57 patents, many related to steam engines.
    Elijah McCoy
77. In the early 1900s her makeup and hair care business earned over one million dollars a year.
    Madame C.J. Walker
78. First Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960.
    Ruby Bridges
79. She has earned 11 Olympic medals in gymnastic.
    Simone Biles
80. Considered the greatest basketball player ever. Currently plays for the L.A. Lakers.
    LeBron James
81. Scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who fought for equal rights for Black people. Helped found the NAACP.
    W.E.B. DuBois
82. The 49th Vice President of the United States.
    Kamala Harris
83. Female lawyer, educator and politician from Texas
    Barbara Jordan
84. She raised awareness of the oppression of women.
    Ida B. Wells
85. Known for her speed and style
    Florence Griffin Joyner