Michigan & UM
He is the first Black dean of UM CoE.
Who is Alec D. Gallimore?
This organization challenged segregation in US public schools and succeeded with the verdict of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
She is the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry in the US.
Who is Dr. Marie M. Daly?
The first African-American to headline Coachella.
Who is Beyonce?
This is Africa’s newest country.
What is South Sudan?
This is the only UM building named after a minority person.
What is the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center?
In this year, Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised a black-gloved fist when the US national anthem was played.
What happened in 1968?
Percy Julian is a chemist and entrepreneur whose work on the extraction of medicinal compounds from plants was crucial for developing these medicinal drugs used by women.
Who contributed to the development of Birth Control Pills?
This legendary boxer was also a musician and received two Grammy nominations.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This country has the second-largest movie industry in the world in terms of the number of films produced each year.
What is an interesting fact about Nigeria?
This record label was founded in Detroit and played an important role in the racial integration of popular music in the 1960s.
What is Motown Records?
This is the name of the period in 1919 which saw racial violence and white-supremacist terrorism in more than three dozen cities across the US.
What is Red Summer?
This invention was created by African-American inventor Garrett Morgan after witnessing a serious accident at an intersection.
What is the three-position traffic light?
This Olympic gold-medalist gymnast has invented moves that cannot be accurately scored in competitions.
Who is Simone Biles?
These are three countries in West Africa.
Where are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo?
This museum holds the world’s largest permanent exhibit of African-American culture.
What is Charles H. Wright museum?
In this year, the US Supreme Court ordered states to overturn bans on inter-racial marriage, which was illegal in 21 states at the time.
What happened in 1967?
She is one of three brilliant African-American mathematicians who worked at NASA and was featured in the book Hidden Figures, which was later adapted to a movie of the same name.
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
He is the first African-American Major League Baseball player in the US.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This is the number of countries in Africa.
Why is the number 54 important?
This person is the first Balck tenured professor of UM and the first (and only) Black Mayor of Ann Arbor.
Who is Albert Wheeler?
This state was represented by Senator Hiram Revels, the first African American to join the US Congress in 1870.
What is Mississippi?
In 1893, he became the first surgeon to perform open-heart surgery on humans.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
He is known as the founding father of Jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo, or Satch, or Pops?
Niamey is the capital of this country.
What is important information about Niger?