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100
Dizzy Gillespie was known for playing with a bent brass instrument.
Trumpet
100
______ was the first Black Disney princess. The children’s movie, “The Princess and the Frog,” came out in 2009.
Princess Tiana
100
This man gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King jr
100
Black History Month is in what month?
What is February?
100
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow?
200
This jazz trumpet player, was also know for his very unique voice. Singing the song "What a Wonderful World".
Louis Armstrong
200
______ took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. “Get Out”
Jordan Peele
200
He was the first black president.
Barack Obama
200
On December 1, 1955, an African American woman was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man.
Rosa Parks
200
Was known as the "King of Pop."
Who is Michael Jackson?
300
This was the location of the birth place of jazz.
New Orleans
300
Who was the star of Black Panther?
Chadwick Boseman
300
the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Jackie Robinson
300
Was the year Barrak Obama became the first black president.
2008
300
This artists sold 1.5 million copies of her album Lemonade in 2016.
Beyonce
400
She was know as the "First Lady of Song" and help create scat singing. Her Most popular songs included Shiny Stockings, Dream A Little Dream Of Me.
Ella Fitzgerald
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
A) Angela Bassett
B) Halle Berry
C) Whoopi Goldberg
Halle Berry
400
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?
Nelson Mandela
400
The Civil Rights act of ____ was the most far-reaching act of legislation supporting racial equality in American history—through Congress.
June - 1964
1964 is acceptable
400
Archie and Nancy Martin were gentle, caring people who provided rooms for African-American students attending Iowa State College in the 1930s and 1940s. ___(Blank)__ was a resident in their home when he had occasion to return to Ames.
Hint He has popular hall close to Martin Hall
George Washington Carver
500
Ella Fitzgerald & Al Jarreau are famed for this technique of singing made-up syllables.
Scat Singing
500
In 1940 Hattie McDaniel became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for best supporting actress. What film did she star in?
Gone with the Wind
500
African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism.
Malcolm X
500
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict , that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.
Brown v. Board of Education
500
The father of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?