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