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100
This is the first Hip-Hop song. Featuring the lyrics:
"A with a hip-hop, the hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip-hop and you don't stop the rockin'
To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat"
What is Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang?
100
In 1992, this amazing woman became the first Black woman to travel into space. She is also an American engineer and physician.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
100
This 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction novel written by Alice Walker follows the life of Celie, a poor Black girl, who lives in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. This novel has even been adopted into movies and a musical.
What is The Color Purple?
100
A novel and TV series depicting the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th century Madinka, captured as a teen, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America.
What is Roots?
100
This woman was an author, civil rights activist, and was married to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
200
This famous artist was born in 1960. He is known for his colorful, graffiti-style paintings like the one shown below.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
200
This man was an agricultural scientist known for improving the quality of soil by influencing farmers to plant peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is George W. Carver?
200
He was an amazing American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. His first collection of poems was The Weary Blues which included the famous poem I, Too.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This American superhero movie that premiered in 2018 became the highest-grossing solo superhero film, the third-highest-grossing film of the MCU and superhero film overall, the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time, and the highest-grossing film by an African-American director.
What is Black Panther?
200
TV couple and parents from the hit show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil?
300
This Jazz singer won 13 Grammy Awards and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. In 1958, she became the first African American woman to win at the inaugural show.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
300
First Black student to earn a medical doctorate from Columbia University, where his interest in the science of blood transfusions led to groundbreaking work separating plasma from blood.
Who is Charles Richard Drew?
300
Essayist, novelist, and playwright whose focus on race and sexuality made him one of the most important voices of the 20th century. One of his most popular novels is Giovanni’s Room.
Who is James Baldwin?
300
The first Black female author to have her work featured on Broadway. One of her best-known works being the play, A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Lorraine Hansbury?
300
This is a traditional ritual in many Black weddings. Where the bride and groom jump over a common household cleaning tool after saying "I do". This ritual began during slavery when enslaved people were unable to legally get married.
What is jumping the broom?
400
This artist born during the Jim Crow Era in Durham, was a famous artist best known for his painting The Sugar Shack which was used on the hit show Good Times and on the 1976 Marvin Gaye album I Want You.
Who is Ernie Barnes?
400
This woman in STEM, received her degree in physics in 1938 and went on to become the first Black woman to complete a master’s degree in physics at the University of Michigan.
Who is Dr. Carolyn Parker?
400
Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina. This brave and resilient woman known for being an abolitionist and for writing the American Classic Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, an autobiography based on her life.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
400
This Black American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker was one of the first black American filmmakers to direct films within the Hollywood system. He is best known for directing the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.
Who is Gordon Parks?
400
This hit romance film produced by Spike Lee and starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps. Follows two next next-door neighbors in Los Angeles, who are pursuing their respective basketball careers before eventually falling for each other.
What is Love & Basketball?
500
This music genre originated from a nightclub in Chicago where the club's resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles began splicing together different records to elongate his set to fit his audience's tastes.
What is the House genre?
500
This man invented every kid's favorite summertime toy, the Super Soaker.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
500
This novelist is best known for her novels The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon. In 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
This extraordinary woman is noted as the first Black person to win an Oscar. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind. She also has other notable first as being the first Black woman to sing on radio in the US and being the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 2006.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
500
This landmark civil right from 1967 ruled against laws banning interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?