Education
Institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
What are HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUs)?
This NYC borough is considered the birthplace of Hip Hop music.
What is THE BRONX?
This country led a successful slave revolt and in 1804 became the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
What is HAITI?
This African American astronaut died in the 1986 space shuttle disaster.
Who was RONALD MCNAIR?
This Jamaican black activist and world traveler in the 1920s and 1930s widely promoted black nationalism, arguing for the idea of racial purity but also admiring white movements, such as that of the "Free Ireland Movement" in Northern Ireland.
Who was MARCUS GARVEY?
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
What is BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION?
In 1953, the song “Hound Dog” was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley’s 1956 version.
Who was WILLIE MAE "BIG MAMA" THORTON?
In 1964, he was sentenced to life in prison. He served 27 years of that sentence before being released in 1990. Upon release from prison he was elected to serve as president.
Who was NELSON MANDELA?
He is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
Who is NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON?
This abolitionist and women's rights activist is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Who was SOJOURNER TRUTH?
He was the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also the subject of the 1989 film Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman.
Who was JOE LOUIS CLARK?
His work has influenced artists like Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra and his keen ear and talents have made him the all-time most nominated Grammy artist in history.
Who is QUINCY JONES?
An economist and former finance minister, this Nigerian recently became the first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organization.
Who is NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA?
This female became the first African American U.S. surgeon general.
Who was JOYCELYN ELDERS?
This political activist and famous author, left her entire literary estate to Martin Luther King, Jr. whom she never met. After King was assassinated, her estate rolled over to the NAACP.
Who was DOROTHY PARKER?
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
What was WOOLWORTH'S?
Her 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers and was seen as an important moment in the struggle for civil rights.
Who was MARIAN ANDERSON?
This African country was founded in 1822 by the "American Colonization Society" in an attempt to realize the dream of many (largely white) Americans to "return" blacks to Africa, and thus end racial problems in the United States, under a scheme called "colonization".
What is LIBERIA?
This breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.
What is OPEN-HEART SURGERY?
She is a politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.
Who is STACEY ABRAMS?
This university was home to scientist George Washington Carver and a group of primarily African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
What is TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY?
This jazz legend referred to music as his mistress.
Who was DUKE ELLINGTON?
It was in this decade the United Nations pass Resolution 1761, condemning the South African practice of apartheid - a form of enforced racial segregation and "separate development" that existed, by law, in S. Africa until the 1990s.
What is the 1960s?
She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”
Who was KATHERINE JOHNSON?
She was a U.S. congressional representative from Texas and was the first African American congresswoman to come from the Deep South.
Who was BARBARA JORDAN?