Cinema
This movie based on the first superhero of African descent became the highest grossing film by a Black filmmaker, and the ninth-highest grossing film of all time.
What is Black Panther?
This artist is the most Sampled artist of all times, and the “Godfather of Soul”.
Who is James Brown?
This person invented sweet potatoes, soybeans, and peanuts products.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This is first institution of higher education founded for African Americans.
What is Lincoln University?
This American Baptist minister and activist, was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King?
This filmmaker and die hard Knicks fan produced more than 35 films since 1983, including "Do the Right Thing" and “She’s Gotta Have It”.
Who is Spike Lee?
This is the first black artist to win a Grammy in 1958.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This person invented the sneaker shoe machine.
Who is Jan Ernst Matzeliger?
This is the first town in America to be incorporated by African Americans.
What is Eatonville Florida?
This person was best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This Actor became the first black actor to win an Oscar role in "Lilies of the field".
Who is Sidney Poitier?
This Black musician was named the highest paid Black musician in history by Forbes.
Who is Beyonce?
This person invented the microphone and electret microphone.
Who is James Edward West?
Jackie Robinson also played these sports in College.
What is Baseball, football, basketball, and track?
This person was the first African American Supreme Court Justice and represented. Joseph Spell vs Connecticut.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This actress made history in 2002 when she became the first African American to win the best actress Oscar for her role in “Monster’s Ball.”
Who is Halle Berry?
This person was the first African American to record commercially in 1890.
Who was George W Johnson?
This person invented the Super Soaker water gun.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson?
This person was an openly gay black man, who acted as a key advisor to Reverend Martin Luthor King.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This American popular poet and civil rights activist published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This movie tells the story of Bryan Stevenson who heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation.
What is Just Mercy?
This artist was the first black artist to hit the billboard hot 100 in 1958.
Who is Tommy Edwards?
This person invented automated doorways.
Who is Alexander Miles?
This is the first national civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP?
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?