America
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This child of an immigrant Barbadian family helped pioneer hip-hop DJing, cutting, scratching, and mixing.
Grandmaster Flash
This half-Kenyan person became the first Black US president in 2008.
Barack Obama
Who became the first Black woman to serve as the United States Secretary of State in 2001?
Condoleezza Rice
Double Points: Do 3 dances originating from Black people.
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Who is the first Black woman in the US to earn a pilot's license?
Bessie Coleman
Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, this person played a major role as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement and global Pan-African movement, originating the rallying slogan “black power” in the 1960’s.
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
This is the name of the language spoken in many parts of Africa that is the basis for the names of Kwaanza and its principles.
Swahili
Name 10 genres started by Black people in the US
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Which Black track and field athlete beat the Nazis in the 1939 Berlin Olympics?
Jesse Owens
Who was the first black woman to travel in space?
De. Mae Jemison
Born to a Barbadian mother and Guyanese father, this was the first Black woman to be elected to the US Congress and first woman to seek the presidential nomination from a major political party.
Shirley Chisholm
While the Harlem Renaissance was happening in the US, this anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students was simultaneously happening in Paris.
The Negritude Movement
What are the names of the first Black graduates of Bowdoin, Bates, and Colby? (Choose one from each college
Bowdoin: a) Joshua Chamberlain, b) Herman Dreer, c) John Brown Russwurm d) Brian J. Purnell
Bates: a) Thomas Gaines, b) Henry Chandler, c) Samuel Howard, d) Thurgood Marshall
Colby: a) Jonas H. Townsend, b) Adam S. Green, c) Franklin Graham, d) Adam J. Green
c) John Brown Russwurm
b) Henry Chandler
b) Adam S. Green
Because of a period of relative isolation from whites while working on large plantations in rural areas of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, these Africans, enslaved from a variety of Central and West African ethnic groups, developed a Creole culture that has preserved much of their African linguistic and cultural heritage from various peoples. Who were they?
The Gullah People
Who was the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Where was Malcolm X's mother born?
Grenada
This Nigerian-American is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the former executive director of the United States' first national immigrant rights organization for people of African descent, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).
a) Janelle Anyanonu
b) Omoyele Sowore
c) Ayọ Tometi
d) Chief Temitope Ajayi
c) Ayọ Tometi
The Niagara Movement, founded in 1905 by African American activists like W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement, is the direct predecessor to what major civil rights organization?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
What do HBCUs stand for? Name 5 of them.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Black History Month was founded in 1926--originally as Negro History Week--by this man.
Carter G. Woodson
The House passed the Bill for recognizing the significance of Caribbean Americans in 2005. What month is Caribbean American Heritage Month?
June
What 2 popular genres of music are taking over rn? Name 2 songs of each.
Afrobeats and Amapiano
Which musical genre, often associated with New Orleans, blends African, European and Caribbean influences and is known for its brass bands?
Jazz
Name and sing the Black National Anthem.
Lift Every Voice