On Your Mark...
The Voting Rights Act passed in this year...
What is 1965?
This agricultural scientist provided ways for poor farmers to grow their own produce and improve the quality of life through the use of peanuts and sweet potatoes...
Who is George Washington Carver?
This Hawaiian native was elected as the 1st Black President of the United States...
Who is President Barack Obama?
This network became the first African-American oriented cable channel in 1980...
What is BET?
This Jamaica-born Black nationalist leader formed the "Back to Africa" movement...
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This state was the first to integrate schools...
What is Arkansas?
This self-made millionaire inventor founded the Black Hair Care movement...
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
In September 2004, she made history on TV by giving a brand new car to each member of her audience...
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This cartoon based pinup girl was actually based on Esther Jones, a Harlem-based jazz singer...
Who is Betty Boop?
Dr. Martin Luther King won this award in 1964, 1969 and 1971 for "Best Spoken Word Recording"..."
What is a Grammy?
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution freed slaves...
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Black inventor created the three-way traffic signal, prior to selling the rights to General Electric for $40,000...
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This movement was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer...
What is Black Lives Matter?
This 1959 film portrayed an aspiring white actress who takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white...
What is "Imitation of Life?"
TRUE or FALSE?
The Black population of the United States in 1870 was 4.8 million; in 2019, the number of Black residents of the United States 40 million.
FALSE. What is 47 million?
W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell were among the many who founded this civil rights organization...
What is the NAACP?
Known as the "Father of Blood Transfusions," this scientist is credited with the discovery of blood plasma...
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
Anika Noni Rose gave voice to "Tiana" in this movie as the first animated black Disney princess...
What is the "Princess and the Frog?"
This actor became the first Black man to win an Oscar, for his leading role in "Lilies of the Field..."
Who is Sidney Poitier?
Black Greekdom began at this college...
What is Cornell University?
This violent event called "Bloody Sunday" was held on this bridge in 1965...
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp...
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This Waterbury native is Connecticut’s first African-American female member of the U.S. Congress, elected in 2018...
Who is Jahana Hayes?
This NYC venue where Ella Fitzgerald was discovered opened in 1914 as Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater...
What is the Apollo?
Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team...
Who are the Dodgers?