Notable Black Figures
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Who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the MODERN era?
Jackie Robinson
What is the name of the the EGOT winning actress notable for her roles in the movie "Fences" and the series "How to Get Away With Murder"?
Viola Davis
what was the major African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that flourished in the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
Name one traditionally Black American line dance
Answers will vary but may include:
Electric Slide
Cupid Shuffle
Cha Cha Slide
The Wobble
I'm starting with the ___
Who was the first Black self-made millionaire in the US
Madam C.J. Walker
Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What year was the first Black US President Elected?
2008
Name one soul food
Answers will vary but may include:
Cornbread
Fried Chicken
Collard Greens
Mac and Cheese
I used to pray for times like this __
to rhyme like this
So I had to grind like that to shine like this
What is the name of the Black woman who's cancer cells were used without her consent to create HeLa, the first immortalized human cell line in medical research?
Henrietta Lacks
Who are the three African-American women that the movie "Hidden Figures" was about?
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson
What is the name of the massacre where white supremacists killed many African Americans and destroyed what was "Black Wall Street"?
The Tulsa Massacre
What is the name for the group of historically black sororities and fraternities?
Divine Nine
I hope my black skin don't dirt this __
white tuxedo before the Basquiat show
What 1980s Neo-Expressionist artist transformed raw street graffiti into celebrated and globally acknowledged art?
Jean-Michael Basquiat
What is the name of the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration?
Amanda Gormon
What is called the mass relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans out of the rural South into urban Northeast, Midwest, and West regions.
The Great Migration
What is the annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1?
Kwanzaa
Lift and Every ___
Voice and Sing, till Earth and Heaven Ring
What's the name of the African American writer and civil rights activist who wrote the novel "Go Tell it On the Mountain" (1953)?
James Baldwin
Claudette Colvin
What year was it when Rosa Parks was arrested and the Montgomery Bus Boycott began?
1955
During American slavery, enslaved people were legally barred from marrying, so they created their own meaningful custom to honor the union which was __
high enought, aint no valley low enough