Pop Cultural
Which rapper performs on Usher’s “Yeah?
Ludacris
Maya Angelou became the first woman and first African American to read a poem at a residential inauguration. Whose inauguration was it?
Bill Clinton
What was the name of the African-American fighter pilot group formed during World War II?
Tuskegee Airmen
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Which great jazz musician was nicknamed Satchmo?
Louis Armstrong
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
Lauryn Hill
Who was the first black female astronaut?
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
Who wrote the book Roots?
Alex Haley
Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?
Civil Rights Act
In what city did Rosa Parks get arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Montgomery, Alabama
Which popular rap artist’s real name is Nayvadius Wilburn?
Future
Who was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Shirley Chisholm
In which decade did young African Americans start hip hop music?
1970s
Who was the first African & Indian American Vice President?
Kamala Harris
Where did Marian Anderson perform her famous 1939 concert?
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C
As a student at Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes....
Ballet and poetry
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor?
Sidney Poitier
Who received a patent on his invention of a longer-lasting light bulb?
Lewis Howard Latimer
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery illegal?
the 13th Amendment
What African-American woman traveled to France to obtain a pilot’s license?
Bessie Coleman
Enraged Adolf Hitler by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Jesse Owens
Who was the first female bank founder and president in the United States?
Maggie Lena Walker
In School Daze Mission College's Fraternity chapter's name is....
Gamma Phi Gamma
First elected African-American governor
Lawrence Douglas Wilder
Thomas Dorsey is considered the father of what kind of music?
Gospel