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