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This country is located in West Africa with being the most populated country in Africa with over 200 million citizens and over 300 ethic groups. Some of the main languages spoken are Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and English. What county is this?
What is Nigeria.
Who was the American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
James Weldon Johnson (writer) and John Rosamond Johnson were two brother who worked together their whole lives. They first did show business and later pursued civil rights. They wrote what song?
Hint: The Black National Anthem
What is "Lift every voice and sing"?
This person was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. Many of the ideas he articulated, like race pride and self-defense, became ideological mainstays of the Black Power movement that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s. He is considered one of history's greatest and most influential figures.
Who is Malcolm X?
What is an ethnic cuisine traditionally prepared and eaten by African Americans, originating in the Southern United States?
What is Soul Food?
Shambel Abebe Bikila was a marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Olympic gold medalist from his country and won Africa's first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Shewa a region of which is what country in Africa?
What is Ethiopia.
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Every year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) establishes a theme to celebrate Black History Month and to celebrate the different contributions and aspects African Americans contributed to society. What is this years theme?
What is Black Renaissance?
This person served as the first African-American in the U.S. senate in 1870. Before he served in the U.S. senate, he was a church pastor and after senate he was president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Alcorn State University), a recently opened institution of higher education for African Americans.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
What was the intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Located in East Africa off the mainland. This island sits in the Indian Ocean north of the country Madagascar. The national anthem of this country is "Koste Seselwa". The colors of on this flag currently consist of blue, yellow, white, green, and red. What country is this?
What is Seychelles.
Who was the FIRST Black woman to run for U.S. presidency?
Who is Charlene Mitchell?
Charlene Mitchell ran for presidency for the Communist Party in 1968 and Shirley Chrisholm ran for the (major) Democratic Party in 1972.
This was a African American revolutionary organization that was formed in 1966 and its initial purpose was to patrol Black neighborhoods, and provide social programs such as free breakfast for children and medical clinics.
Bonus Points (2x): Who were the two founding members?
What is the Black Panther Party?
Bonus Points (2x): Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
He has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances in film, television, and theater, and "one of the greatest actors in American history".
Hint: The Lion King
Who is James Earl Jones?
This fiction movie describes a country with technology and wealth far beyond any other world power, and a leader with an undeniable strength of character and will. The value of this film lies in its profound ability to celebrate black culture and inspire black people through character development and setting.
What is Black Panther or Black Panther 2?
This Carribean country is predominantly of African descent people. This country gained its independence on November 30th, 1966 from the United Kingdom. Its capital is Bridgetown and it is also the home country of a famous singer, actress, and business woman. What country is this?
What is Barbados?
Who was the first African American to host a network TV Show?
Who is Nat King Cole?
This man was the second African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree, and is credited with being one of the first scholars to study and research the history of African Americans. He is the creator of Negro History Week (Later Black History Month in 1970) and is often referred to as the "Father of Black History". Who is he?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This woman created a line of haircare products for African American women, leading her to become the first African American self-made millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This tool has long, wide teeth and dig down to the scalp and is used to stretch the hair out to a desired style or shape. Used since the 1970s and to this day this tool is worn in hair/hairstyles as a signature of cultural identity. What is it?
What is a Afro pick or "pick" ?
This country is in central Africa and the capital of this country is Kigali. In this country the last Saturday of each month is Umuganda, a national morning of mandatory community service. What country is this?
What is Rwanda?
Who was the first Black man to win an Oscar?
Who is Sidney Poitier?
Why is Black History Month celebrated in February?
Carter G. Woodson wanted to celebrate the birth month of two figures who loom large in the Black American past: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and African American abolitionist, author, and orator Frederick Douglass. It was originally "Negro History Week".
Who are three (3) black woman to have EGOT status?
EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
Who are Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson, and Whoopi Goldberg?
What is the annual music awards show which previously aired in national broadcast syndication, and honors the best in African-American culture, music and entertainment. This was previously a dance show, which featured various genres of musical performances by popular musicians, dancers
What is Soul Train?