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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
An American abolitionist who made thirteen missions to rescue seventy slaves through the navigation of the underground railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman
An American Baptist Minister and activist for the civil rights movement and equal rights for African American. He is well renowned for his nonviolent protest and his “I Have A Dream Speech”
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A civil rights organization that was created in 1909 by W.E.B Dubois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mary Ovington to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality rights to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
A 2018 Marvel movie that empowered Blackness and made 700 million dollars in box office sales on the day of it's release
What is Black Panther
Who was the first African American president?
Barack Obama
She fought against childhood obesity and championed education for young girls. She delivered a quote that still resonates with many people at the 2016 Democratic National Convention: “When they go low, we go high”
Who is Michelle Obama
An American Muslim Minister who was an activist during the Civil Rights Movement. He advocated for African Americans to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”.
Who is Malcolm X
An international activist movement, which was founded in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi to combat violence and systematic racism towards black people.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement
A Netflix original featuring Sanaa Lathan as a woman her is undergoing her natural hair journey
What is Nappily Ever After
Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature? Ex: Sula and Blue Eyes?
A representative from New York, she became a national symbol of both movements as the first major party African American candidate and the first female candidate for President of the United States
Who is Shirley Chisholm
These Men were the creators of the Black Panthers.
Who is Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Elbert Howard
A political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966, whose early activities were to monitor police activities in black communities and start community social programs
Who are the Black Panthers
One of Michael Jackson's most famous music videos. Centered in Egypt and featuring Eddie Murphy, viewers watch the King of Pop win his Queen.
What is the Remember the Time Music Video
Who was the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame C.J. Walker
Before Rosa Parks, this 15 year old woman refused to give up her seat and got arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
Who is Claudette Colvin
This man is the reason why the United States celebrates Black History Month in February and established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
Who is Carter G. Woodson
An organization founded in 1998 by Manning Marable which focuses on progressive social justice, racial equality, and economic justice goal
What is the Black Radical Congress
An all Black casted film, filled with singing dancing, and a yellow brick road. It features the icons Diana Ross and Michael Jackson
What is The Wiz
In what year was the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
When was 1619
She was the first black woman to graduate from an established American college, Oberlin College.
Who is Mary Jane Patterson
He was the first black person to graduate from a U.S College at Middlebury College.
Who is Alexander L. Twilight
A civil rights organization focused on the economic empowerment of underserved urban communities, for it works with 100 local facilities and 36 states to provide programming, and public policy research
What is the National Urban League
Airing from 1974 - 1979, it was one the first black family sitcoms. It centered on the poor Chicago-based Evans family and their struggles to make ends meet
What is Good Times