Inventors and innovators
This man was responsible for inventing the three signal traffic light as well as the modern gas mask.
Who is Garret Morgan?
These men raised their fists during the medal ceremony for the 1968 summer olympics in a show of black unity and black power
Who are Tommie Smith and John Carlos?
She is a Pulitzer prize winner, Nobel prize winner. Some of her most famous works are “The Bluest Eye” and “Beloved.”
Who is Toni Morrison?
This filmmaker is known for both Selma and Netflix documentary, 13th.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
In 1968, this prohibited discrimination in the sale and rental of housing based on race, religion, national origin and family status.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
This aerospace engineer is responsible for creating the Super Soaker water gun.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
This federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States when federal troops arrived in Galveston, TX and delivered the news of emancipation.
What is Juneteenth?
This author, poet and civil rights activist, wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “And Still I Rise”
Who is Maya Angelou?
This singer and six time Tony award winning actress is best known for her work acting on Broadway.
Who is Audra McDonald?
In 1963, this protest demanding equal rights in jobs, voting rights and education took place. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech
What is the March on Washington?
This woman is best known for creating the home security system.
Who is Marie Von Brittan Brown?
Fifty African American men refused to load a navy ship after a terrible munitions explosion killed U.S. sailors including many African American sailors in Chicago.
What is the Port Chicago Mutiny?
She is the author of the novel “Push”, which was adapted into the film, “Precious."
Who is Sapphire?
He is perhaps the most influential jazz trumpet player in the post-WWII United States.
Who is Miles Davis?
In 1957, these nine African American students became the first students to attend Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School after the Brown v. Board of Education supreme court decision.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
A computer scientist who worked for IBM and helped created the IBM computer and color monitor.
Who is Mark E. Dean?
This series of protests by black school children took place in resistance to the start of apartheid in South Africa.
What is the Soweto Uprising?
Her novel, “The Street,” is about a single mother who moves away from her family in Harlem.
Who is Ann Petry?
This writer and activist best known for writing semi-autobiographical novels that focus on race, politics and sexuality including “Go Tell It on a Mountain” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
Who is James Baldwin?
This 13 month boycott against segregation on Montgomery, AL city buses is one of the most famous forms of non-violent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
He created the shoe lasting machine that helped shape the upper portion of shoes.
Who is Jan Ernst Matzeliger?
It was an explosion of art, music and literature in the Harlem section of New York City that celebrated African American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This author, lawyer and activist is most famous for writing about race and identity in the post Civil War south.
Who is Charles W. Chestnut?
This artist is best known for his works about African American life, historical figures and African American migration.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
This program started by the Black Panther Party in 1969 was aimed at providing breakfast to hungry school children in Oakland, CA.
What is the Free Breakfast Program?