Black Women in History
Black Men in History
Sports/Music within Black History
Black History Month
A little History
100
This 6-year-old was the first African-American who integrated into an all-white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
This man had a dream that all people will be equal.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
Truth Hurts was the first major single by this artist
Who is Lizzo?
100
The month of Black History Month?
What is February?
100
In the wake of the assassination of Black nationalist Malcolm X, a political organization founded in 1966, dressed in black berets and black leather jackets.
Who is The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party?
200
This African-American woman refused to give her seat to a Caucasian man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
He was the first black President.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
This is the first African American in the major Leagues?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
An annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
What is Black History Month?
200
He believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time).
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This African- American woman helped 300 slaves escape to freedom
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
The first African American man to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
300
In 1956, she was the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title (French Championships)
Who is Althea Gibson?
300
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
300
He founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
This teen movie about cheerleaders starring Gabrielle Union was her breakthrough role.
What is Bring It On?
400
He was the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
He started Negro history week (later renamed Black History Month in 1976)?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
400
Laws created a system of legal segregation are called what?
Jim Crow Laws
500
She was only 12 when she became the first female African-American author published.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
500
He was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington. However, his homosexuality cost him visibility and was considered by some as a hindrance to the movement's success.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
500
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)
Who is Beyonce?
500
The first Black vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
500
The meaning of this term is discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction.
What is Segregation?
600
On April 27, 2015, the first African American woman to be a U.S. Attorney General?
Who is Loretta Lynch?
600
This African-American man played T’Challa in the movie Black Panther.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
600
In 2007, he was the first African-American referee to be assigned to a Super Bowl XLII. His uniform from that game sits on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Who is Mike Carey?
600
The first African American pilot to fly solo around the world.
Who is Barrington Irving Jr. ?
600
In 2006 he launched his television studio.
Who is Tyler Perry?
700
This woman was the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Who is Cheryl Boone?
700
He sold BET to Viacom for 3 billion and became the first African American Billionaire.
Who is Robert (Bob) Johnson?
700
The first African-American man to win the masters golf tournament
Who is Tiger Woods?
700
An African-American leader of the Harlem Renaissance, a great poet, activist, novelist, and play writer.
Who is Langston Hughes?
700
The First African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
800
"I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing" was her first body of work.
Who is Maya Angelou?
800
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, this African-American inventor played an important role in its development.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
800
The first African-American president of an Ivy League institution
Who is Dr. Ruth Simmons?
800
He was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard.
Who is Richard Theodore Greener?
800
The first African-American U.S. attorney general?
Who is Eric Holder?
900
During the 2023 Grammy ceremony, this iconic person achieved EGOT status.
Who is Viola Davis?
900
This artist developed his stage name from his childhood nickname “Jazzy".
Who is Jay-Z?
900
The King of Pop
Who is Michael Jackson?
900
This woman wrote the poem "Still I Rise".
Who is Maya Angelou?
900
The first female African-American Billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
1000
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders?
1000
He played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 years, until he retired in 1991 due to his HIV diagnosis.
Who is Magic Johnson?
1000
Rogers Nelson's stage name.
Who is Prince?
1000
She was one of the first African-American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine.
Who is Whitney Houston?
1000
Aretha Franklin acted in only one movie.
What is The Blues Brothers?
