Black & Famous
This basketball player won 6 NBA championships
Who is Michael Jordan?
A young man was killed at the Fruitvale Bart station in 2009
Who is Oscar Grant?
The first Black woman to win country music album of the year.
Who is Beyonce?
He initiated the First Negro History Week on February 7th, 1926
Who is Carter Godwin Woodson
The Freedom Riders rode these throughout the South integrate interstate transportation.
What are buses?
This person was the youngest Black executive producer in Hollywood to produce a movie at the age of 14.
Who is Marsai Martin?
Following the acquittal of 4 LAPD officers who brutally beat Rodney King what instantly erupted
What is the 1992 LA Riots?
This actress, singer, and civil rights activist defied Hollywood by refusing to accept roles that demeaned black women, and she was one of the first black performers to be signed to a major studio.
Who is Lena Horne?
The founder of the first Black Owned Modeling School
Who is Cleo Johnson?
A militant civil rights group that emerged later in the movement, advocating for self-defense and community empowerment.
Who is the Black Panthers?
Which retired NBA Player sells his shoe brand at Walmart?
Who is Shaquille O'Neal?
This famous Rapper died in September 1996.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
This author wrote the novel "Roots"
Who is Alex Haley?
The first African American First lady of the United States of America.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This famous civil rights leader was originally named Michael until his father became inspired by a well-known protestant reformation leader
Who is Martin Luther King?
Who started the record label Death Row Records?
Who is Suge Knight?
This person's tragic murder sparked the Black Lives Matter movement
Who is George Floyd?
This musician played the lead role in the movie "Purple Rain".
Who is Prince?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
In 1954, the Supreme court ruled that separating children in public schools by race was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Which Black female rapper has the most grammy's?
Who is Lauren Hill?
This man made history the day he became the President of the United States of America
Who is Barack Obama?
This actress is an EGOT recipient (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)
First African American woman billionaire.
Who is Oprah?
In 1955 this young woman was the first to boycott the Montgomery Bus System, 9 months before Rosa Parks
Who Claudette Colvin?