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50 years before ____ was celebrated, the US celebrated Negro History Week.
What is Black History Month?
In which year did Black History Month become an annual, month-long celebration?
What is 1976?
What year was the Atlanta Association of Insurance Professionals Founded?
What is 1988?
Which black female artist is the most Grammy-Award nominated female artist of all time?
In 1921, an entire city in Oklahoma was burned to the ground due to a racial disturbance and retaliation. What riot was this known as?
What is the Tulsa Race Riot.
He is considered to be the father of Black History Month.
Who is Carter J. Woodson
This African King ruled Egypt during the 18th Dynasty 1388-1351 BC. He was the Father of the famed “heretic Pharaoh,” Akhenaten, and grandfather to the famous King Tut.
Who is Amenhotep III?
What are the 4 Tenets for AAIP?
What is Scholarship, Professional Development, Community Service, and Networking?
She became the first Black woman astronaut to travel into space in 1992, and her accomplishments don't end there. Today, she's a doctor, former Peace Corps officer, and engineer. In addition, she leads the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 100-Year Starship program, which aims to send humans outside of our solar system in the next century.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
On May 4, 1961, what group of 7 Black and white activists boarded two buses bound from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. The riders faced increased violence, culminating on May 14, when a mob of some 100 people met the buses upon their arrival in Anniston, Alabama. One bus was firebombed, and the riders beaten by the assembled crowd, which included members of the Ku Klux Klan who had been permitted by local authorities to attack the riders without fear of arrest.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This African American nurse , devised an early security unit for her own home. She and her husband took out a patent for the system in the same year, and they were awarded the patent three years later, in 1969. Home security systems commonly used today took various elements from her design.
A) Who is Mary Van Brittan Brown?
More than a century ago, O.W. Gurley helped create economic prosperity for the Black community in Tulsa, OK. This Greenwood District functioned independently, with its own school system, post office, bank, library, hospital and public transit.
It also had luxury shops, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, jewelry and clothing stores, movie theaters, barbershops and salons, pool halls, nightclubs and offices for doctors, lawyers and dentists.
What was the name of this prosperous black community?
What is Black Wall Street?
What city will the 2024 NAAIA National Conference be held in?
What is New Orleans?
Politician, educator and Brooklyn native _______________ survived three assassination attempts during her campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination to the U.S. presidency.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
A key moment in the civil rights movement began on February 1, 1960, when four Black students at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now North Carolina A&T State University), sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter inside a Woolworth’s store in what city and state and refused to leave when they were denied service?
As a result of such coordinated resistance, dining establishments throughout the South were forced to integrate.
What is Greensboro, NC?
What activist group launched programs such as free dental care, free breakfast, and drama classes in underserved black communities.
Who are the Black Panthers?
The first use in the Bible of the word “queen” refers to a Black woman (1 Kings 10:1). Her name is alleged to be Makeda, but the Scriptures refer to her as the Queen of ___________ or the Queen of the South.
Who is Queen of Sheba?
This man currently serves as the Executive Director and COO of NAAIA.
Who is Omari Aarons-Martin?
She was the first African American to win an Oscar, was not allowed to attend the national premiere of Gone With The Wind, the film featuring her award-winning performance, because she was black.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
This Revolution (c.1791–1804) was the first successful large-scale revolt by enslaved people in modern history, which sent shockwaves through the Western colonial world.
What is The Haitian Revolution?
Countries like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands celebrate Black History during what Month of the year?
What is October?
The _________, who ruled Spain for 800 years, introduced new scientific techniques to Europe, such as an astrolabe, a device for measuring the position of the stars and planets, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Geography and Philosophy.
Who are The Moors?
How many active NAAIA Chapters are there currently?
What is 24?
This woman, who was formerly enslaved, was employed in the 1890s to promote the Aunt Jemima brand by demonstrating the pancake mix at expositions and fairs. She was a popular attraction because of her friendly personality, storytelling skills and warmth. Green signed a lifetime contract with the pancake company, and her image was used for packaging and ads.
Who is Nancy Green?
This 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "_______________," was an all-Black U.S. regiment formed during World War I.
They became the first African-American infantry unit in the first World War, and spent more time in combat than any other American unit.
Who are The Harlem Hellfighters?