POP Culture
The celebrity of music, film, print, and TV was the first African American woman to win the ASCAP Pop Music Songwriter of the Year in 2001. She married Jay-Z in 2008.
Who is Beyonce?
On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the start of the Civil Rights Era.
Who is Rosa Parks?
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this famous speech to five million protesters on
August 28, 1963.
What is the " I have A Dream Speech"?
The first African American to be elected to the office of
President of the United States,
in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This judge on the reality TV show “The Voice” has also produced hits “Crazy” and Forget you”.
Who is Cee Lo Green?
On the list of the “top ten wealthiest women in the world” for more than a decade, she’s the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated daytime talk show, own a cable TV channel, a website, and
“O” yeah, her own magazine.
Who is Oprah?
In 1954, Brown vs. Board Of Education overturned this “separate but equal” practice from 1896, which had allowed public schools in some states to separate students on the basis of race.
What is segregation?
Dr. King became the youngest ever recipient of this award, in 1964.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
she was the first African American ever to run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This distinctly American roots music, which features improvisation and instrumental solos, has always been historically connected with
New Orleans.
What is jazz?
With 5 brothers and 3 sisters, this artist, seen here in his younger days, had a mega hit in 1982 with the album Thriller, which has sold over 104 million copies worldwide, more than 30 million in the U.S. alone. He was 50 years old when he died in June of 2009.
Who is Michael Jackson?
In 1957, President Eisenhower ordered the U.S. Army to protect nine African American students from an angry mob when they attended the first integrated Southern high school in this city, the capital of Arkansas.
What is Little Rock?
Dr. King often said that this Indian spiritual leader’s philosophies of non-violence and truth were the inspiration for his stand during the Civil Rights era.
Who is Gandhi?
The first chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, in 1989; also the first Secretary of State, in 2001.
Considered by many to be the most influential figure in all American music, this famous jazz composer and bandleader wrote a suite dedicated to African American history called “Black, Brown, and Beige.” He had a hit with this song about the subway, called “Take the A-Train.”
Who is Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington?
The first African American woman on the cover of
GQ magazine, and 1994 VH1 ‘supermodel of the year’, she moved to TV, started
America’s Next Top Model in 2003, then her own talk show.
Who is Tyra Banks?
The president of the United States who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
Who is President Lyndon B Johnson?
Now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in this
Tennessee city.
What is Memphis?
the “Queen of Soul,” was the first woman (of any race) to be inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Albert King, John Lee Hooker, and Sonny Boy Williamson all played this “color” of music.
What is The Blues?
Since the 1960s, he was ‘Soul Brother No. 1,’ ‘Mr. Dynamite,’ ‘The hardest working man in show business,’ and ‘the Godfather of Soul’. He passed away on Christmas Day, 2006.
Take it to the bridge.
Who is James Brown?
He was the first African American judge to serve on the Supreme Court of the U.S., appointed in 1969.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
she continued to march for human rights more than 35 years beyond her husband’s tragic death, calling us to “unite…to fight the three great evils of racism, poverty, and war.”
Who is Coretta Scott King?
He was the first African American without a doctorate degree to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.
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Who is Viven Thomas?
Young African American artists from the early ‘80s such as Grandmaster Flash, L.L. Cool J, Run D.M.C. and The Sugarhill Gang, heard here, laid the musical groundwork with a host of DJs & MCs and pioneered this style of music.
What is rap?