Black Music
This New Orleans–born trumpeter and singer also known as "Satchmo" recorded “What a Wonderful World” 1967
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This New Orleans spiritual leader, herbalist, and midwife was known as the “Queen of Voodoo"
Who is Marie Laveau?
This Tuskegee agricultural scientist promoted crop rotation and developed innovative uses for peanuts to help farmers create businesses in the 1920s and 1930s
Who is George Washington Carver?
This Washington, D.C. museum operated by the Smithsonian officially opened to the public in 2016
What is the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)?
This point guard for the Golden State Warriors is well-known for his regular use of three-point shots and has the current NBA record for the most three-point shots made in history
Who is (Stephen) Curry?
This neighborhood in New York became the center of a musical Renaissance and a major hub for the birth of jazz music in the 1920s
What is Harlem?
In 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher and prophet, led the deadliest slave rebellion in this U.S. state.
What is Virginia?
Originally from West Virginia, this computer programmer's orbital calculations helped send John Glenn into space aboard Friendship 7 in 1961
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Originally from Hawaii, this lawyer and former Illinois Senator became the first African American to hold the office of U.S. President in 2008
Who is Barack Obama?
This word for a specific culture/cuisine from Louisiana has Caribbean, African, Native American and European influences and was initially used to describe people who were born in Louisiana before 1803
What is Creole?
This popular music genre that started in the 1970s also became a global cultural movement symbolized by breakdancing, graffiti art, and DJing
What is hip-hop?
In 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown mailed himself in a wooden one of these to escape to freedom (and it worked!)
What is a crate?
This MIT engineer and inventor born in 1949 holds over 250 patents and created the Super Soaker while he was working for the U.S. Air Force in the 1990s
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
This social and political movement that first started as a hashtag in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman aims to highlight systemic racism, discrimination, and police brutality in the United States
What is Black Lives Matter?
Actor and comedian Donald Glover used this stage name that he originally got from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator when performing hip-hop and funk music from 2008-2024
What is Childish Gambino?
In 2024, this Beyoncé album sparked controversy after being excluded from consideration in several award shows' categories
What is "Cowboy Carter"?
During the Civil War, this former enslaved woman worked as a Union spy and helped lead the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In 1893, Daniel Hale Williams became the first Black person to ever perform successful surgery to repair a wound in this major organ
What is a heart?
In 2022, this jurist and Harvard alumna became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This brutal institution was used in the United States for over a century and involved people being considered the property of their owners for life
What is chattel slavery?
This blues musician and songwriter is referred to by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as perhaps "the first ever rock star"
Who is Robert Johnson?
This landmark Supreme Court case from 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens and were not protected by the U.S. Constitution
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Awarded the National Medal of Science for her commitment to scientific inquiry and education, this theoretical physicist from Washington, D.C. became president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999
Who is Shirley Ann Jackson?
In 2021, this activist and former National Youth Poet Laureate from Los Angeles, California published a poetry collection entitled Call Us What We Carry
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Born in Trinidad in 1941, this activist led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961; he also helped to develop the concept of institutional racism
Who is (Stokely) Carmichael?