Old Negro Spirituals
Nobody knows my sorrow
What is Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen?
City where MLK's “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered
Where is Washington, DC?
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?
Former NASA engineer Lonie Johnson created this toy in his spare time in the 90's.
What is the Super Soaker?
Year the first black US president, Barak Obama, was elected
What is 2008?
I'm going to lay down my burdens
What is Down By The Riverside?
NC city where the first sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter was held
Where is Greensboro?
The first black woman millionaire in America due to her successful line of hair care products.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Garrett Morgan's famous invention to help save lives by keeping cars, buggies and pedestrians from colliding
What is the traffic signal?
First African-American Supreme Court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Every round goes higher and higher
What is We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder?
Alabama city where the bus boycott, a political and social protest campaign against segregation on public transportation, was started
Where is Montgomery?
Escaped slave who helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
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?
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?
See that host all dressed in white
What is Wade in the Water?
He challenged mainstream civil rights movement and urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”
Who is Malcolm X?
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?
An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
First black superhero to appear in comics (1966). He is the first black superhero in mainstream comic books
Who is Black Panther?
I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
What is Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
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?
Year the first African-American woman, Cheri Beasley, was appointed to serve as Supreme Court Chief Justice in North Carolina
What is 2019?
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?
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?