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