Black Renaissance
The first African-American professional baseball player to play in Major League Baseball, marking the end of racially segregated teams in the sport.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first African-American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
The white supremacist terrorist organization that was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, 1915.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The first African-American woman to become a self made millionaire, having invented both the hot comb and the world's first hair-straightening formula.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
A black woman who refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, inspiring a year-long bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He is credited for the creation of hip hop music.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
The first black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The 5 teenage boys who were falsely convicted and imprisoned for many years for the rape of a white woman in Central Park in 1989.
What is the Central Park Five?
A black scientist who developed over 300 ways to use peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life, including housing, education, and other services.
What is (Racial) Segregation?
This is the year that the Apollo Theatre opened.
What is 1914?
The South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as ____ that represented a formal, codified system of racial discrimination that dominated the American South.
What are "Jim Crow Laws"?
The black inventor who invented and patented one of the first versions of the traffic light in America in 1923.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
African-American female NASA mathematician, one of the three women depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures".
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Virgil Abloh, a black man, was best known for being the artistic director of this brand.
What is Louis Vuitton?
A Pakistani female education activist, who was infamously shot in the head by the Taliban on a school bus in 2012.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
The system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990.
What is Apartheid?
The black man and former chef who is credited with creating the potato chip, after slicing a potato extremely thin out of spite for a picky customer.
Who is George Crum?
The year of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination.
What is 1968?
This Billie Holiday song is considered to be one of the first protest songs in favor of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is "Strange Fruit"?
The commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, later promoted to brigadier general to become the first black general in the Air Force.
Who is Benjamin O. Davis Jr?
Postcards made of his brutal lynching in Waco, Texas became the prime example for the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign.
Who is Jesse Washington?
The Black inventor who created the "Super Soaker" Water Gun.
Who is Lonnie G. Johnson?
A series of political protests in which 7 black protesters and 6 white protesters rode a bus together across America to test the Supreme Court's enforcement of new anti-segregation laws.
What were the Freedom Rides?