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