Colleges and Universities
Florida is home to this many HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).
What is four?
The first Black woman millionaire, she developed the first-ever, commerically-available line of hair-care products for Black women.
Who was Madam C. J. Walker?
During the Civil War, this man freed himself from bondage by stealing a Confederate transport ship and posing as a Confederate officer.
11 years later, this man was a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Who was Robert Smalls?
She was the first woman and the first Black person to campaign for the office of president of the United States of America.
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
The African American Club of Pasco was founded to provide a safe place for neighborhood children to learn, grow and flourish. What was the year it came into existence?
When was 1990?
This HBCU holds the distinction of educating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for his Bachelor of Arts in sociology.
What is Morehouse College?
Desiring to feel safer at home, Marie Van Brittan Brown invented this.
What is a home security/closed circuit TV system?
This attorney was the chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, famously winning the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Later in his career he would become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
She was a prominent investigative journalist and civil rights activist of the 1890s, reporting on the atrocities of lynching and injustice.
She was posthumously honored with the title of a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2020.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
True or False: one of the founders of the AAC of Pasco, Mr. Eugene Scott, was as bald as he is now at the time of the club's founding?
False. Mr. Scott had a head full of thick hair at the time of the club's founding.
This university was attended by the great intellectual W.E.B. DuBois?
What is Fisk University?
Garrett Morgan invented many things, name 1 of his most famous items.
What are the traffic signal and gas mask?
A leader during the Civil Rights Movement, this man was one of the "big six" organizers of the March on Washington, in 1963. In 1965 he led the first March from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus bridge.
In 1986 he was elected to the United States Congress representing Georgia in the House of Representatives.
Who was John Lewis?
Nine months before Rosa Parks took her historic seat on a Montgomery, Alabama public transit bus, this woman did the same thing, but has been mostly unknown. In fact, Rosa Parks interviewed her and used her experience to plan her famous protest of segregation.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This is the year was the Booker T. Washington schoolhouse, the segregated school where the AAC of Pasco now meets was built.
When was 1962?
This HBCU produces the largest number of Black aerospace engineers in the United States. It was also home to an elite squadron of Air Force pilots and bombardiers during World War II.
What is Tuskegee University?
This man focused his inventiveness on agricultural solutions to improve the South's growing conditions and decrease its economical reliance on cotton. He developed the concept of crop rotation.
Who was George Washinton Carver?
This woman was born into a sharecropping family and continued farming cotton with her family through most of her life.
At the age of 46, she became a very prominent civil rights activist engaging with SNCC and the SCLC to help register Black people to vote. She also co-founded the Freedom Democratic Party and the Freedom Farm Cooperative.
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
The Stonewall riots of 1969 are considered by most scholars to be the very beginning of the what is now known as the LGTBQ+ movement. This Black, trans woman was one of the central and most prominent members of this time.
Who was Marsha P. Johnson?
There have been three women who served as president of the AAC of Pasco. Name one.
Who are Alice Delgardo, Sandra Wright and Larnelle Scott?
These are the only two all-women HBCUs.
What are Bennett College and Spelman College?
Dr. Patricia Bath was an ophthalmologist that invented a technique and a machine to treat what common condition of the eye?
What are cataracts?
She began her career playing Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods on T.V.'s good times and later became known as one of the most influential women in pop music throughout history.
Who is Janet Jackson?
Katherine Johnson was a mathmatician at NASA whose calculations were used in the first lunar landing mission. What was the movie that was made about her?
What is Hidden Figures?
For a child to enter the after school program at the AAC of Pasco, they had to be this age.
What is five years old?