BHM2024
Who is the founding father of Black History Month?
Carter G. Woodson
She created the song "Can't Get Enough" that started the popular cultural line dance across the nation.
Who is Tamia Hill?
What does HBCU stand for?
Historical Black College Universities
A group of intellectuals and cultural revival of African Americans music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in the 1920s and 1930s
Harlem Renaissance
Who is the famous Black inventor of the traffic light and the gas mask?
Garrett Morgan
What was Black History Month Called back 1926?
Negro History Week (Bonus 200 points)
He is one of the most important choreographers in the history of modern dance in 1958
Who is Alvin Ailey?
How many HBCUs are there ?
107
Her abstract art is like a firework of display of joy and celebration. She wasn’t just an artist; she was a color wizard.
Alma Thomas ( The Queen of Color)
What Does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Color People
What is the Theme for Black History Month 2024?
African Americans and The Arts
When slaves couldn't learn martial arts, what was the art form that mixed fighting styles with dance.
What is Capoeira?
Ms.S attended which HBCU for undergrad?
Central State University ( Bonus extra 200 points)
What Black filmmaker explores African American experience, challenges racial stereotypes, and addresses controversial subjects through his art?
Spike Lee
Who is the Cleveland Native Actress who played another Cleveland Native Actress / Singer in a movie? Can You Name Them \Both?
Halle Berry and Dorothy Dandridge
Why is Black History Month in the month of February?
Because of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass Birthdays are in February. Feb. 12th and Feb. 14th
When white ballet companies wouldn't allow black folks in there companies, what type of dance style did African Americans come together to create?
What is Modern dance?
Which school is the oldest HBCU?
1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
What Black writer and civil rights activist is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and sexuality.
James Baldwin
Native of Lorain Ohio, who is the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, with works like The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Sula?
Toni Morrison
What Does ASALH stand for?
Association of the Study of African Americans Life and History
The first female African American principle dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland?
How many HBCUs are in Ohio? Can you Name them?
2 ( Central State University and Wilberforce University) (Bonus Extra 200) Points
Her poetry was political and worked to uplift the black experience in the arts and as part of the Black Arts Movement.
Nikki Giovanni
Who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967.
Carl Stokes