For the Culture
You are out 10 years old out running errands with your mom. You ask if she will take you to play some games at Chuck E. Cheese.
How does she respond
Chuck E. Cheese money?
This Baltimore native received his law degree from Howard University and in 1938 served as chief counsel for the NACCP challenging racial segregation. In1967 he became the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court
Which well-known protester was credited with helping to spark the Civil Rights movement when she refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks
Picked up by the Dodgers, this history maker was the first African American to play major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
This queen is the first black woman to win the academy award for best actress
Hallie Berry
It’s 4pm, you’ve just gotten out of a 5 hour church service with your mom and you haven’t eaten since 8:30 am and she wants to stop by the mall before you go home. You ask if you all can stop and get a snack.
What’s her response?
Nah, we got food at home
This landmark case struck down laws banning interracial marriage as a violation of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment
Loving v. Virginia
February was named Black History Month because it is the birth month of this abolitionist and writer?
Frederick Douglass
In 1997 This CA native became the first African American to win the Masters golf tournament
Tiger Woods
This artist is the first ever to win a Grammy without selling a single physical copy of his record
Chance the Rapper
Who is the REAL king of Rnb
Michael Jackson
This landmark case declared in 1857 that the US constitution was not meant include citizenship for black people
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This group of individuals arrived at Central High school in 1957 to begin classes but were instead met by the Arkansas National Guard
This NBA player is the first athlete to win a NBA Championship and an Academy Award
Kobe Bryant
This African American was the first billionaire and the founder of BET
Robert L. Johnson
What is the name of the Black National Anthem?
Lift Every Voice and Sing
This iconic civil rights attorney won nine of 10 cases argued before the US Supreme Court and in 1966 become the first black woman to sit as a federal judge
Constance Baker Motley
Arguably one of the most famous events of the civil rights movement took place on August 28, 1963: the March on Washington. It was organized and attended by civil rights leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King Jr.
March on Washington
This track and field sprinter holds the record for the fastest women’s 100 and 200, both received in the 1988 Summer Olympics
Florence Griffith Joyner
This individual was the first black man to host his own television show in 1956
Nat King Cole
It’s 7 o’clock on the dot. Where are you?
In my drop top crusin the streets with a real pretty little thing waiting for me
This US Constitutional Amendment adopted in 1870 prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or condition of servitude
Fifteenth Amendment
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this legislation in 1964 by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination—into law on July 2 of that year.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This famous tennis player remains the only African-American male to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, or the Australian Open
Arthur Ashe
This African American artist was the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin