Who said that?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1953, the song “Hound Dog” was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley’s 1956 version.
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Throton
When did Rosa Parks’ bus boycott happen?
(Month & Year)
December 1955
She was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hatie McDaniel
Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?
NASA Calculations
"When they go low, we go high"
Michelle Obama
This Renaissance man has a gift for producing, composing, arranging and performing!
Quincy Jones
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?
Sept. 9, 1965
She was the first African American woman to play a lead role on a television drama?
Nichelle Nichols
She invented the Hot Comb
Elroy J. Duncan
"If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
John Lewis
The legendary band Parliament Funkadelic helped usher in a revolutionary decade of Funk music...
Doo Wop Group
What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
He was the first African American television host.
Nat King Cole
He invented the Three-Light traffic light
Garrett Morgan
"Character, not circumstances, makes the person.”
Booker T. Washington
Which gospel singer would go on to be called the “Godmother of Rock-N-Roll?”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
What year did celebration of Black History Month begin?
1926
This respect artist has won 18 Grammys.
Aretha Franklin
He created the modern elevator.
Alexander Miles
"As I give, I get"
Mary McLeod Bethune
This US city is hailed the birthplace of Jazz.
New Orleans
January 1st of this year the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
1863
In 1939, she wasn't able to perform at Constitution Hall because of a "white performers only” policy but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt protested and the singer eventually performed at Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson
He discovered the many uses of blood plasma.
Dr. Charles R. Drew