Famous leaders
Arts & Entertainment (excluding the music industry)
Inventions / Inventors
Music
Civil Rights Movement
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An American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. Founder of NAACP
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
100
"Float like a butterfly , sting like a bee"
What is a popular quote by Muhammad Ali ?
100
The use of these crops allowed George Washington Carver to make over three hundred inventions including Soaps,Massage Oil ,Lotions, Creams ,peanut butter, Face Bleach and Tan Remover and Shampoo.
What is peanuts soybeans, pecans or sweet potatoes? (mark as correct if 2/4 or more are correct)
100
"No, no, no"--this originally four member group did eventually dwindle, not all of them were "Survivors", and however the remaining were some "Independent Women" but three of the members team up because they realized that " When Jesus says yes nobody can say no"
Who are Destiny's child?
100
In 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case determined
What is Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and, therefore, unlawful?
200
An abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
an American television sitcom which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992 The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
What is The Cosby Show?
200
Madame CJ Walker is the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of..
What is beauty and hair products for African American women?
200
A Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He first garnered recognition for his role as Jimmy Brooks
Who is drake?
200
The President sign to into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
An American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. "How Will I Know" singer
Who is Whitney Houston?
300
The First and only Female African American billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
300
saved lives by inventing an early version of the gas mask and a new form of traffic signal.
Who is Garret Morgan?
300
An American record company. It was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. on January 12, 1959, in Detroit, Michigan. Introduced legends such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie
What is Motown Records?
300
The racially mixed group of college students and civil rights activists who rode buses from the North into segregated Southern communities
What is Freedom riders?
400
A South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Spent 27 years in prison.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
A monthly magazine for the African-American market. It was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the autumn of 1945. A digest-sized sister magazine, Jet, is also published by Johnson Publishing Company
What is Ebony Magazine?
400
Who was the first African American woman to receive a patent?
Who is Sarah Goode?
400
A religious song of a kind associated with black Christians of the southern US, and thought to derive from the combination of European hymns and African musical elements by black slaves
What are Spirituals?
400
In the summer of 1957, African-American leaders targeted Central High School for desegregation with the enrollment of nine Black students. This took place in
What is Little Rock, Ark ?
500
The Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
"Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
What is the second line in A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes?
500
the original title of what we now call Black History Month was created in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson
What is Negro History Week?
500
B.B King / Muddy Waters / Bessie Smith
What are popular blues singers?
500
A massive demonstration and march took place in August 1963 with some 200,000 protestors whose actions were televised by all three networks. That event took place In the nation's capital. ALSO WERE MARTIN LUTHER KING GAVE HIS "I HAD A DREAM SPEECH?"
What is The March on Washington??
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