Contributions to America
First African American to play for Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in order to start a constitutional challenge to segregation in transportation.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Famous American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, and author.
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
This black millionaire owns her own television network and is a talk show host, actress, author and philanthropist.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
According to the 2020 census, African Americans make up this percentage of the total US population.
What is 12.4%....your answer can be within 5
Everything from fashion to poetry to the Civil Rights movement was touched by the influence of this uniquely American music style.
What is Jazz?
The 1955 death of this 14 year old in Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white woman galvanized support for the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmitt Till?
Who is Langston Hughes?
This American gymnast has earned a combined 32 Olympic and World Championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
The Greenwood Commercial District would, in time, be called "Black Wall Street" in this American city.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
This agricultural chemist created 518 new products from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Hundreds marched in 1965 from Selma to this Alabama capital to protest a lack of voting rights.
What is Montgomery?
This novelist won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for Beloved in 1987. Additional works include, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon.
Who is Toni Morrison?
American poet and activist who was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Name five African American faculty/staff members at our school.
Lots of answers here
This group of military aviators earned 150 Flying Crosses for their distinguished record in WWII.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Born in 1940, this activist and politician represented Georgia in the US House from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Who is John Lewis?
This author of The Fire Next Time, lived abroad for a time and once said, "To be a Negro in this country...is to be in a rage almost all the time."
Who is James Baldwin?
With films including 13th, Selma, and a Wrinkle in Time, this filmmaker and director has an Oscar nomination and won Best Directing awards at Sundance and the Golden Globes.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
During the years of segregation, this publication highlighted services for black travelers like hotels and restaurants.
What is The Green Book?
Diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951, her cells have played a pivotal role in cancer research, the creation of the polio vaccine and the study of the human genome.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This modern movement was started in 2013 in response to acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of NASA spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This Federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is the first black woman nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This neighborhood, home to the Blair Caldwell Research Library, was once the center for black culture in Denver.
What is Five Points?