Juneteenth
This is the first state to declare Juneteeth as a state holiday
What is Texas
This Afro-Latina (Afro-Puerto Rican), made her breakthrough after debuting in Spike Lee’s hit movie, "Do the Right Thing"
Who is Rosie Perez
This is the largest island in the African continent and is also the 4th largest island in the world.
What is Madagascar
In 1984, this person was the first African-American Miss America
Who is Vanessa Williams
This college was the first historically Black university to grant degrees in the United States.
What is Lincoln University
Who rode into Galveston, Texas and announced that enslaved people were now free
Who is General Gordon Granger
During the nearly four centuries in which slavery existed in the Americas, this Latin America country was responsible for importing 35 percent of the slaves from Africa (~4 million)
What is Brazil
This country is the richest in Africa
What is Nigeria
In 1915, this was the first African-American owned automobile manufacturing company
What is C.R. Patterson & Sons
In 1908, John Baxter Taylor was the first African-American to win an Olympic gold medal for what olympic sport?
What is Track
From the time the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, how long did it take for this good news to arrive in Texas
What is 2.5 years
This Afro-Latina (Afro-Cuban) is known for as being the "Queen of Salsa"
Who is Celia Cruz
In the 1950s this country became the First African Nation to declare independence
What is Libya
In 1956, this person became the first African-American secret service agent
Who is Chalres LeRoy Gittens
She is the first female artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1987
Who is Aretha Franklin
This person originally designed the Juneteenth flag
Who is Ben Haith (Flag was later revised by Lisa Jeanne Graf)
José Celso Barbosa (Afro-Puerto Rican) application was denied to attend Columbia University because he was black. He later attended this college instead
What is Univeristy of Michigan
This university is the oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world is founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco
What is University of Karueein
In 1828, this person was the first African-American to graduate from an Ivy League School
Who is Theodore Sedewick Wright
She was the first Black woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States in 1852
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Thanks to the efforts of this nonagenarian activist, who visited to many states to draw attention on the importance of making Juneteenth a federal holiday
Who is Opal Lee
This Afro-Latino, Vicente Guerrero, was one of the leading revolutionary generals of the a war of to gain independence of what country
What is Mexico
This leader was the only black African student on the campus at the University of the Witwatersrand, studied law. He later started the first African-owned law firm in South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela
In 1863, Robert Smalls was the first African-American commisioned officer to this U.S. armed force
What is the U.S. Navy
Phillis Wheatley was this age when she became the first female African American author published
What is 12 years old