Quotes
Quotes II
Landmarks (Places & Events)
Who Am I?
Wild Card
100
Who stated "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now."
Who is Bill Cosby
100
For more than four decades from its inception as a black theatre in 1934, this music hall located in Harlem, NY has been a beacon for showcasing Black talent at it's famous Amateur Night.
What is The Apollo Theater
100
I am the first African-American to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Who is Sidney Poitier
100
She was the most famous of at least two [2] Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus.
Who is Saartjie Baartman (Sarah Bartmann)
200
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves."
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."
Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson
200
A famous jazz music night club located in the Harlem, it was a white-only establishment even though it featured many of the greatest Black entertainers of the era including Lena Horne, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Lottie Gee, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters.
What is The Cotton Club
200
I was the first Black television correspondent to cover the White House.
Who is Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr.
200
An African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. As the field Secretary for the NAACP Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council.
Who is Medger Evers
300
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou
300
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
Who is Barbara Jordan
300
You can't roadtrip in the Midwest without stopping in Detroit to pay homage to this 20th-Century switchboard of Black music.
What is Motown
300
After graduating first in my class from Howard University Law School, I became the lawyer for the NAACP.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
In 1962, he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement.
Who is James Meredith
400
"I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge."
Who is Oprah Winfrey
400
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
One of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, it was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious Whites on June 1, 1921.
What is Black Wall Street
400
In 2004, he became the third African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate after Reconstruction.
Who is Barack Obama
400
This music industry legend has many "firsts" associated with his name. He was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song; "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, He would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations.
Who is Quincy Jones
500
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."
Who is Jesse Owens
500
"For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart."
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
500
The NAACP, the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization was founded in 1909 in this location.
What is the Niagara Falls (Canadian side)
500
My nickname is that of royalty. I was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show, named after myself, which had maintained worldwide popularity since my death from lung cancer in February 1965.
Who is Nat King Cole
500
With his defeat of Michael Moore, 26, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1994, this man at 45 becomes the world's oldest heavyweight boxing champion.
Who is George Foreman
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