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