Africa and the Diaspora
Leader of the first successful large scale revolt by enslaved Africans?
Toussaint Louverture
Who is known as the “queen of soul”
Aretha Franklin
This mass movement from the American South to Northern and Midwestern cities between 1916 and 1970 is known by this name.
The Great Migration
Who was the first black woman in space?
Mae Jemison
Who is the richest man in Africa?
Aliko Dangote
Who is the second most watched artist that performed at the Super Bowl?
Kendrick Lamar
How many years was Black History Month celebrated for?
100 years
Who used her math skills to send astronauts to space through NASA, including John Glenn’s first orbit of Earth?
Katherine Johnson
Largest African country by land mass?
Algeria
Directed the highest grossing film made by a black filmmaker.
Ryan Coogler
Who was the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Ketanji Brown Jackson
These two represented opposing strategies for Black American progress in the late 19th/early 20th century.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
The first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Patrice Lumumba
First Black Woman to win Nobel Prize in Literature
Toni Morrison
What year was the Black Lives Matter movement founded?
2013
What year was the first Juneteenth celebration?
1866
Largest exporter of cocoa in Africa and the world?
Ivory Coast
First Black Woman to win an EGOT
Whoopi Goldberg
Which Black Historian established “Negro History Week” which later expanded into Black History month?
Carter G. Woodson
Which Black inventor and innovator is known as the “father of the video game cartridge"?
Jerry Lawson