INVENTIONS
Before him, elevators were operated manually; people had to physically open and close the doors of both the elevator and the shaft every time. He realized the constant hazard this posed when riding on an elevator with the shaft door open with his daughter. In 1887, he obtained the patent for his invention, including a flexible belt attached to the elevator cage, allowing the doors to function automatically.
Alexander Miles
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
We are soldiers in the army.
We have to fight although we have to cry.
We've got to hold up the_________________________________>
blood-stained banner.
We've got to hold it up until we die!
Who said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford
The engineer developed this mega water gun in his free time while working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And once the toy, dubbed the Super Soaker, hit shelves in 1990, its popularity skyrocketed
Lonnie Johnson
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Ralph Bunche
And I wanna thank Him for ol' time religion (oh yes)
I wanna thank God for giving me a vision (oh yes)
Oh, I'm gon' join the Heavenly choir (oh yes)
I'm gonna sing and never get tired (oh yes)
I'm gonna sing somewhere 'round the alter (
How I Got Over
Who said, "if there is no struggle, there is no progress"?
Frederick Douglass
What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?
Virginia
Madam C.J. Walker became America's first female, the self-made millionaire. What product did her company sell?
Cosmetics
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Cassius Clay
The enemy came up against your health
The enemy came up against your finance
The enemy came up against your vision
The enemy came up against your business
Who said, "life is not a spectator sport"?
Jackie Robinson
What was the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921?
Black Wall Street
first-ever home security system after wanting to increase her own house’s security in her Queens, New York, neighborhood. Her original design contained a camera, a two-way microphone, peepholes, and monitors, all serving as the foundations for today’s modern systems.
Mary Van Brittan Brown in 1966
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life, we have some trouble
But when you worry, you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
"Just don't give up what you're trying to do. Where there is Love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz vocalist
Which city is known as the birthplace of hip hop?
The Bronx, New York
Before flat screens and high-definition LCD monitors were the norms, PC displays were limited to screens with no color that was tethered to computers with limited processing power. That all changed thanks to Black inventor and engineer
Mark Dean c. 1980 and 1999
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
Lauryn Hill
Sing the Second verse of lift every voice
Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears have been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
Who said, "if not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
John Lewis
When did Rosa Parks' bus boycott happen?
December 1955