The Artist's Way
Kehinde Wiley, an African American New York based artist, was one of the first two African American artists chosen to create Presidential portraits, his subject was this Presidential figure.
Ronnie Hartfield help found this not for profit in Chicago.
A) Greater Chicago Food Depository
B) CPL
C) Urban Gateways
What is Urban Gateways?
This man was know as the Father of Black History.
A) Ronnie Hartfield
B) Carter G. Woodson
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Carter G. Woodson? B
This person is considered to be the most successful independent Black filmmaker of all time.
A) Henry Sampson
B) Oscar Micheaux
C) Tyler Perry
Who is Oscar Micheaux? B
James Cameron was the founder of this important museum, chronicling the harmful legacies of slavery in America.
A) Black Holocaust Museum
B) African American History Museum
C) Great Blacks in Wax Museum
What is the Black Holocaust Museum? A
Oscar Micheaux's successful career spanned these two different era's in cinema.
A) Black and White and Color Eras
B) Silent and Sound Eras
C) Film and digital Eras
Though not directly related to the political movement of the same name, this is the superhero identity of Wakandan King T'Challa.
Our first guest speaker, Ms. Jada Bailey, shared with us about how she serves her community in this protection based job.
She was the Executive Director of Museum Education at the Chicago Art Institute?
A) Ronnie Hartfield
B) Taylor Moore
C) Ron Roberson
Who is Ronnie Hartfield? A
She became the first woman of any race to charter a bank in 1903.
A) Maggie Lena Walker
B) Nannie Helen Burroughs
C) Taylor Moore
Who is Maggie Lena Walker? A
This famous African American Newscaster was a Black Panther in his youth.
A) Ron Roberson
B) Bryant Gumbel
C) Carter G. Woodson
Patents are written descriptions of inventions. This Famous African American was well know for many of his patents, including the Gamma-Electric cell.
A) Henry Sampson
B) George Washington Carver
C) Oscar Micheaux
Who is Henry Sampson? A
Our second guest speaker, Ms. Lolita Cleveland, share how she works with this organization helping "Direct Young People"
This young Chicago poet was the first youth to win the 2000 Phenomenal Woman Award.
A) Nannie Helen Burroughs
B) Beyonce
C) Taylor Moore
Who is Taylor Moore?
Nannie Helen Burroughs helped to found this Convention of the National Baptist Convention?
A) Black Convention
B) African Convention
C) Women's Convention
This young man made the news when he was almost lynched at 16 years old.
A) Carter G. Woodson
B) Taylor Moore
C) James Cameron
Who is James Cameron?
Carter G. Woodson helped to develop this, a precursor to African American History Month.
A) Emancipation Sunday
B) Negro History Week
C) Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Our most recent guest speaker, Ms. Krystle McNeely, showed us we can go after our dreams with the help of Jesus. She dreamed of being a doctor but eventually became this instead.
Finish this Maya Angelou poem
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll _________.
A) Try
B) Rise
C) Smile
He was the essayist of The Souls of Black Folk and one of 7 African American's to help found the NAACP. A school in Altgeld Gardens is named in his honor.
A) George Washington Carver
B) W.E.B. Du Bois
C) Malcom X
A) ABC
B) Disney
C) CNN
What is CNN?
This famous pastor wrote the influential Letter from Birmingham Jail.
A) James Cameron
B) Henry Sampson
C) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.