Laws and Slavery
This religious and social movement in the early 19th century advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery and attracted many Black American and white supporters.
What is Abolitionism?
This English actress and abolitionist who played a significant role in the anti-slavery movement and was known for her portrayal of Shakespearean characters.
Who is Fanny Kemble?
This 2017 film, directed by Jordan Peele, addresses issues of race in America through a horror-thriller narrative.
What is Get Out?
This Black American physicist is best known for his development of the theory of nuclear shell structure.
This influential Black American journalist and newspaper editor published The North Star, and abolitionist newspaper, and is often called the "Father of Black Journalism".
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This is Tiger Woods' first name.
What is Eldrick?
Throughout the 1920's, Gary's African American schoolchildren were crowded into a handful of all-black schools concentrated around this section of the city.
What is Midtown neighborhood previously referred to as "The Patch".
Enslaved people often communicated to help each other escape along the Underground Railroad using these.
Charles Sumner introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1875 with this gentleman's help.
Who is Benjamin Franklin Butler?
Who is Spike Lee?
She was the first Black woman in space, flying aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This comedian and actress known for her roles in Girls Trip and The Last O.G. and for guest hosting The Daily Show.
Who is Tiffany Haddish?
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and began conducting on this.
What is The Underground Railroad?
This school was the first and only school built exclusively for African American students in the city of Gary.
What is Theodore Roosevelt High School?
This enslaved Black American led the 1831 rebellion that resulted in the deaths of many white individuals and harsher laws against enslaved people.
Who is Nat Turner?
Former Slave and Underground Railroad advocate William Welles Brown attended this HBC.
What is Fisk University?
Who is Ava DuVernay?
Who is Helen Octavia Dickens, MD?
Nichelle Nichols played this iconic character on the original Star Trek, making her one of the first Black women in a significant role on a major television series.
Who is Uhura?
This was Malcolm X's birth name.
Who is Malcolm Little?
This was the result of the Emerson School Striker of 1927.
This abolitionist newspaper, published by John Brown and Peter Rucker, was known for its fiery denunciations of slavery and its call for armed insurrection against enslavers.
What is The National Anti-Slavery Standard?
This African American male issued the Black Manifesto insisting on reparations for African Americans.
Who is James Forman?
He directed the critically acclaimed film Moonlight which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017.
Who is Barry Jenkins?
This Black American microbiologist is credited with discovering the first effective treatment for leprosy Hansen's disease in the 1940's.
Who is Alice Ball?
She is known for her role on Insecure and as the co-creator and star of that HBO series.
Who is Issa Rae?
What is Memphis, TN?
This 21st Century Charter School Alumni made NCAA Tournament history becoming the 1st player to score at least 25 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 steal in the same tournament game in Division 1 Men's Basketball.
Who is Johnell Davis?
He was the first Black lawyer to win a case before the US Supreme Court.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
This Black leader created the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Who is Steve McQueen?
This Black American neurosurgeon, known for his pioneering work in pediatric neurosurgery, became the first person to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head.
Who is Ben Carson?
This Black American actor and comedian is known for his roles in The Nutty Professor and Coming to America.
Who is Eddie Murphy?
This was the year the NAACP founded.
When is 1909?
This West Side Leadership Alumni was selected 13th overall in the 2021 WNBA draft.
Who is Dana Evans?
He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to the US Court of Appeals for the second circuit.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This film sparked a massive wave of protests from thousands of Blacks.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
He is the acclaimed director and producer of films like Fruitvale Station, Black Panther and Creed.
Who is Ryan Coogler?
This Back American zoologist was instrumental in environmental conservation.
Who is Roger Arliner Young?
This film that was released in 2020, featured a predominantly Black American cast and told the story of a legendary recording session in 1927 Mississippi.
What is Ma Rainey's Black Bottom?
This was the year the Million Man March took place.
What is 1995?
He is not the only first African American but the sixth person of any race to receive a Ph.D. in Physics from an American university.
Who is Edward Bouchet?
This is the year the Voting Rights Act was issued.
What is 1965?
This celebration commemorates the end of the peculiar institution of slavery in America.
What is Juneteenth?
This is Spike Lee's real name.
What is Shelton Jackson Lee?
This Black American inventor and engineer known for his contribution to the development of the gas mask and the traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
He was the first Black person to win a Nobel Prize in any category other than peace.
Who is William Arthur Lewis, won for Economic Success?
Barrack Obama was elected President of the United States in this year.
What is 2008?
She is noted as the 1st female African American neurosurgeon in the US and the 1st female African American to be certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Who is Alexa Canady?
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed this, granting freedom to slaves.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Harry Belafonte raised his much money to bail MLK out of jail.
What is 90K?
This is the term many scholars use to refer to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is negro movement?
This Black American physician and pioneering researcher who developed surgical techniques for the treatment of glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness.
Who is Patricia Bath?
This Black American astronaut became the first person of Black descent in space, flying aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
Who is Guion S. Bluford Jr.?
She was the first self-made woman millionaire.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
He is best known for inventing a plastic coating for telephone wires that made universal service possible, receiving the National Medal of Technology and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Who is Walter Lincoln Hawkins?
Black soldiers fought in this war to end slavery.
What is the Civil War?
John Wesley Carlos and Tommie Smith did this at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
What is protested and did the Black Power salute?
Russell Simmons noticed the potential of rap music in this decade.
What are the 80's?
He was the Black American mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Who is J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.?
Spike Lee attended this college.
What is Morehouse?
Nat Deadwood Dick Love was a famous one of these.
What is a cowboy?
He was the first Black Joint Chief of Staff.
Who is General Colin Powell?
In the year 1619 the first African indentured servants arrived at this U.S. city.
What is Jamestown, VA?
This is what the abbreviation NAACP stood for.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This is considered the Black National Anthem.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
This was the first Black college founded in the US.
What is Lincoln University?
He wrote The Souls of Black Folks.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This is correct name for the acronym NNBL?
What is National Negro Business League?
She was the first African American woman to receive a PH.D. in chemistry in the US.
Who is Marie Daly?
She was the first Black female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
What is the 1963 March on Washington?
Who is Diana Ross?
What is Freedom's Journal?
Who is Rev. Jesse Jackson?
He was the first Black general in the US Army.
Who was Benjamin O. Davis Sr.?
In 1955 an action by Rosa Parks sparked a successful boycott against Jim Crow in this city.
What is Montgomery, AL?
This rapper created the 1991 hit Mama Said Knock You Out.
Who is LL Cool J?
This scientist developed 300 products from peanuts, 118 from sweet potatoes, in addition to new products from waste materials including recycled oil.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Born in Georgia, he was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Elijah Muhammad?
This was the state that Barack Obama was senator for before his presidency.
What is Illinois?
This type of racism is a reference to systems and policies in place that create and maintain racial inequality.
What is systemic racism?
This is rapper Snoop Dogg's real name.
Who is Calvin Broadus?
This scientist developed ways to use and preserve blood plasma that helped saved lives during World War II and later became the model used for blood banks.
Who is Charles Richard Drew?
She was the first African American model to be featured on the cover of GQ magazine.
Who is Tyra Banks?
He was the first African American to build a billion-dollar company.
Who is Reginald F. Lewis?
This was Dr. King's full name at birth.
Who is Michael Luther King, Jr.?
He is the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET)?
Who is Robert L. Johnson?
This film, released on February 8, 1915, depicted African Americans as idle and brutish, meaning lazy and barbaric (stupid).
What is Birth of a Nation?
This African American rapper's mixtape became the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy.
Who is Chance the Rapper?
This African American mechanical engineer invented more that 26 devices patented by the Ford Motor Company which revolutionized automobile manufacturing.
Who is Claude Harvard?
"Bloody Sunday" was called this because of violence directed toward civil rights demonstrators during an attempted march from Selma to Montgomery, AL, that was in reference to this.
What is to protest police brutality and the denial of voting rights?
This cell biologist wrote over 36 papers and performed extensive studies of cell biology and became very well known as a prominent cancer researcher.
Who is Jewel Plummer Cobb?
The world's first electric roller coaster, Figure Eight, was invented and introduced in 1892 at Coney Island Amusement Park in New York by this African American electrical engineer.
Who is Granville T. Woods?
This genre of movies was made in the 1970's and it featured black actors and was aimed at black audiences.
What is Blaxploitation?