Old Negro Spirituals
Civil Rights
Wonderful Women
Inventors & Inventions
Famous Firsts
100

Nobody knows my sorrow

What is Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen?

100

City where MLK's “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered

Where is Washington, DC?

100

By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, this black seamstress helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States

Who is Rosa Parks?

100

Former NASA engineer Lonie Johnson created this toy in his spare time in the 90's. 

What is the Super Soaker?

100

Year the first black US president, Barak Obama, was elected

What is 2008?

200

I'm going to lay down my burdens

What is Down By The Riverside?

200

NC city where the first sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter was held


Where is Greensboro?

200

The first black woman millionaire in America due to her successful line of hair care products. 

Who is Madam CJ Walker?

200

Garrett Morgan's famous invention to help save lives by keeping cars, buggies and pedestrians from colliding

What is the traffic signal?

200

First African-American Supreme Court justice 

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

300

Every round goes higher and higher

What is We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder?

300

Alabama city where the bus boycott, a political and social protest campaign against segregation on public transportation, was started

Where is Montgomery?

300

Escaped slave who helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

Who is Harriet Tubman?

300

Booker T Washington used this item to create more than 300 products ranging from laundry soaps to plastics and diesel fuel. By 1940, it was the South's second largest cash crop

What is the peanut?

300

He broke the color barrier when he became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century

Who is Jackie Robinson?

400

See that host all dressed in white

What is Wade in the Water?

400

He challenged mainstream civil rights movement and urged followers  to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”

Who is Malcolm X?

400

Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton. In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., by President Barack Obama.    

Who is Maya Angelou?

400

An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin

Who is Eli Whitney?

400

First black superhero to appear in comics (1966). He is the first black superhero in mainstream comic books

Who is Black Panther?

500

I looked over Jordan and what did I see 

Coming for to carry me home

What is Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?


500

Groups of white and black civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals

Who are the Freedom Riders?

500

Year the first African-American woman, Cheri Beasley, was appointed to serve as Supreme Court Chief Justice in North Carolina

What is 2019?

500

Benjamin Banneker applied his natural mechanical and mathematical abilities to diagram wheels and gears and converted these into three-dimensional parts. He invented this item that remained accurate throughout his life

What is the clock?

500

First African American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in Lilies of the Field. He also starred in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night

Who is Sidney Poitier?

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