The First
The first Black woman chosen as Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
The time you had to be home.
What is before the street lights come on?
He is often considered "the Father of the Civil Rights Movement".
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The system in which Black Americans farmed someone else's land and received a split of the season's crops.
What is sharecropping?
The singers LaToya, Janet, and Michael all have this in common.
What is the surname Jackson?
The first Black person to direct a movie for a major Hollywood studio.
Who is Gordon Parks?
"As long as I owe you..."
What is "... you'll never go broke"?
James Todd Smith was given the stage name LL Cool J. State the full name.
Who is Ladies Love Cool James?
This famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965.
What is the March on Selma?
He directed Boyz in the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Who is John Singleton?
The first screenplay produced by a Black American woman.
What is Georgia, Georgia?
You wake up on a Saturday morning to gospel or neo soul music indicates...
What is 'It's time to clean the whole house'?
This magazine is called "The Magazine of Today's Black Woman.
What is Essence?
On November 7, 1967, Carl B. Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected mayor of these cities.
What is Cleveland, OH and Gary, Indiana?
The longest, continuously running, first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016.
What is Soul Train?
The first HBCU (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) was founded this year on February 25th.
What is 1837?
"I'm not sleep..."
What is "...I'm resting my eyes?"
"Ain't No Stopping Us Now", a platinum hit by Gene McFadden and John Whitehead was known as this is 1979.
What is "the Black National Anthem"?
The state with the most black institutions for higher learning.
What is Alabama?
Vanessa Bell appeared in this soap opera.
What is "All My Children"?
Performed the first surgical implantation of the automatic defibrillator in the human heart.
Who is Dr. Levi Watkins?
Your mom often asked this rhetorical question when you were singing a song word for word.
What is "I hope you know that school work like you know them songs?"
Known as the “Black Edison,” this famous inventor was responsible for developing the third rail used in modern subway systems.
Who is Granville T. Woods?
She lost her job as a teacher due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked "whites only".
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Tyra Ferrell, who played Doughboy's mother in 'Boyz in the Hood', is a member of this sorority in 'School Daze'.
Who are the Wannabes?