This Major League Baseball player is credited with being the first African American to play at the major leagues level in 1884.

This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn where he later established a film company. Whether working with a low-budget and unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries.

This former slave received a degree in Theology. He was also appointed chaplain to the all-black Twenty-fourth Infantry by President Grover Cleveland in 1977.

This Jacksonville, Florida 1873 Howard graduate was one of the first to do this in Florida.

This talented blues singer /artist was blind at an early age, raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself to play music. Fusing spirituals and folk music, he developed his own style of guitar playing with unusual chord progressions--partially due to a hand injury--that became his trademark.

This athlete was a running back for the Chicago Bears. He ran 1,852 yards to help the team reach the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.

This first African American graduate of the University of California, Berkley, College of Engineering went on to become San Francisco's first Black engineer and first recorded member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The founder of the National Women's Caucus and first Black female in Congress also ran for this office in 1972.

This minister's given name is Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I'keren-cotter), He established the United Christian Evangelistic Association in 1962 and was the first Black minister with a television show. He is known by this name.

This town, the first to be incorporated by African Americans, was home to this popular author Their Eyes Were Watching God. These are the names of the author and the town.

This author co-founded the student newspaper The Hilltop at Howard University and later went on to write Their Eyes Were Watching God.

This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven Black women who wounded up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television movie,

This graduate from Howard University Medical School was the first African American woman to pass the medical boards and become a doctor in Kentucky.

This multifaceted author started her career as an entertainer. She was also a poet eho delivered her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.

This trumpet player was also a vocalist and one of the first to use a technique known as scat singing.

This city in Ohio elected three Black mayor between 1972 and 1991.

This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career as a model. In 2001, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

This Grammy award-winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer who worked with many groups and large choirs in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound.

This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African Americans elected to the House of Representatives in 1970.

This author won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling seven generations of his family from West Africa in the story Roots.

This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations, one of his best known, most often seen modern dance performances.

This former mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1977.

This hip-hop mogul has a record label, clothing line, beverage, and movie production companies. He initiated the careers of LL Cool J and Will Smith.

This sports editor of The Louisville Defender and associate editor of Ebony magazine won the Wilkie Award in 1947 for revealing illegal taxicab services in Louisville.

This, the first and only Black college consortium, was founded in 1929.