Sports
He was the first Black player in Major League Baseball, breaking the color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking a citywide bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Known as the 'Queen of Soul,' she sang 'Respect' and won 18 Grammy Awards.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in this California city in 1966.
What is Oakland?
This thriving Black community, known as Greenwood to it's residence but popularly known as “Black Wall Street" was located in this State.
What is Oklahoma?
This Los Angeles Laker won 5 NBA championships and was known as 'Showtime.'
Who is Magic Johnson?
He delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech at the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teen from West Philadelphia sent to live with his wealthy relatives in the Los Angeles area.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This West African Emperor ruled over Mali in the 1300's and is considered to be the wealthiest human in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This board game teaches students about entrepreneurship, investing, and the history of Greenwood.
What is Black Wall Street The Board Game?
This woman won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and is widely considered the greatest female tennis player of all time.
Who is Serena Williams?
This NAACP attorney argued and won Brown v. Board of Education and later became the first Black Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 for his album.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
The ancient pyramids were built by this civilization, one of the most powerful in human history.
What is Ancient Egypt or Ancient Kemet?
This businessman and landowner helped found Greenwood, the community later known as Black Wall Street.
Who is O.W Gurley
Born Cassius Clay, this boxer refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War and was stripped of his heavyweight title.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This genre, developed in the South Bronx in the 1970s, includes four elements: DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti art.
What is hip hop?
Born into slavery, this Black woman won her freedom in a California court in 1856 and went on to become one of Los Angeles's first Black landowners.
Who is Biddy Mason?
This entrepreneur founded Greenwood’s transportation system with his famous jitney service and later founded the Royal Hotel.
This athlete won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This Jamaican-born leader moved to Harlem, New York, where he advocated for Black pride, Pan-African unity, and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Who is Marcus Garvey
This 1987 spin-off was set at a historically Black college and inspired a generation of young Black students to pursue higher education.
What is A Different World?
In 1781, the founding settlers of this major city included people of African and Indigenous descent. The majority of the 44 original settlers were of African or mixed-African heritage.
What is El Pueblo de Los Ángeles (Los Angeles)?
This historic California town in the Central Valley was founded in 1908 as a self-sufficient Black farming community. This town is known as California's Black Wall Street.
What is Allensworth,CA?