African Americans
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Black Artists/Architects
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General Black History Facts
Dattner Facts
100
This was the transportation of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas between the 1500s and 1800s.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
100
What is the name of Beyoncé’s group before her solo career?
Who is the Destiny’s Child?
100
Beyonce carries this in her bag.
What is hot sauce?
100
This activist helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This is the first new NYC subway station in 26 years designed by Dattner.
What is 7 line/34th Street Hudson Yards?
200
These were the original indigenous Native Americans of Brooklyn.
Who are the Lenape tribes known as the Canarsie and Marechkawieck?
200
This renowned poet, novelist, and playwright, was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His work celebrated African American culture and contributed to the cultural vibrancy of Harlem.
Langston Hughes
200
What 1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teenager from West Philadelphia?
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
200
He was the first African American ever appointed to the US Supreme Court, serving from 1967 to 1991.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
Broome Street (GoBroome)
300
This activist and journalist documented lynching cases nationwide after the lynching of her friend, Thomas Moss, publishing *Southern Horrors* and *A Red Record*.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
This notable black architect founded one of the largest African-American-owned architecture firms in the United States and designed the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
Who Curtis Moody?
300
“The Message” (1982), a social commentary on the stress of inner city poverty, is a hip hop song rapped by this founding Hip Hop group.
Who is Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?
300
This was first the HBCU to officially issue degrees to African Americans?
A) Spellman
B) Lincoln University
C) Howard
D) Morehouse College
What is Lincoln University?
300
Dattner Architects is ___% women.
What is 59%?
400
This was the first free Black neighborhood in Brooklyn.
What is Weeksville?
400
"The Epic" (2015) is a sprawling masterpiece that transcends traditional jazz boundaries created by what famous Black Saxophonist?
Who is Kamasi Washington?
400
She was the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
400
This writer and civil activist is credited with composing/writing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" the Black National Anthem.
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
400
Trinity Place School has ____ classrooms in total.
What is 26 classrooms?
500
This was the first apartment building built in Central Harlem.
What is Washington Apartments?
500
This Black architect played a crucial role in shaping the built environment with his designs including the iconic Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport and the First AME Church in Los Angeles.
Who is Paul R. Williams?
500
What is "The Wiz?"
500
This was the first colony to ban slavery in 1777.
What is Vermont?
500
How many proposals did we submit last year?
What is 126 proposals?