Culture
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the US
What is the Voting Rights?
Note:The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).
Thomas L. Jennings was a free man, living in New York, when he invented this method of cleaning clothes, making him the first African American to receive a patent in the U.S.
What is dry cleaning?
Note: He patented it in 1821, 4 years before Jean Baptiste Jolly established what many people claim was history's first dry cleaning business.
When they go low, we go high." Who said these words?
Who is Michelle Obama
Note: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama; born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer, who was the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Who is considered The Godfather of Go-Go?
Who is Chuck Brown?
Note: Charles Louis Brown was an American guitarist, bandleader and signer who has garnered the honorific name "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-Go is a subgenre of funk music developed in and round the Washington metropolitan area in the mid-1970s.
A school that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary of Education is called this.
What is a Historically Black College or University (HBCU)?
Note: The second Morril Act of 1890 required states, especially former confederate states, to provide land grants for institutions for black students if admission was not allowed elsewhere. As a result, many HBCUs were founded.
Known as the "Moses of her People" she was born a slave of purely African ancestry. She escaped freedom and risked her life to save over 300 slaves including her parents in 19 separate freedom trips on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
Note: American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad
Mark E. Dean is the computer scientist/engineer that invented the hardware interface that paved the way for personal computer use in office and business settings while working for this company.
What is IBM?
Note: He also helped develop the first color computer monitor and holds 3 of the company's original 9 patents, and more than 20 overall.
This show stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross
What is Blackish
Note: A father living in an upper-middle class neighborhood struggles to raise his children while ensuring they have a sense of cultural identity
In 1978, this funk band sang "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)"
Who is Parliament
Note: Funkadelic is an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of that decade. The group that would become Funkadelic was originally formed by George Clinton in 1964, as the unnamed musical backing for his doo wop group
Black Greek lettered organizations are often referred to as this.
What is The Divine Nine (or D9)?
Note: The formal name for The Divine Nine is the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), which is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American Greek lettered fraternities and sororities that promotes interaction for the exchange of informative and cooperative programming.
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery AL buses from 1955 - 1956
Who is Rosa Parks?
Note: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Who invented the Three-Light Traffic Light?
Who is Garrett Morgan
Note: In 1923, with only an elementary school education, black inventory (and son of a slave), Garrett Morgan came up with several significant inventions, including an improved sewing machine and the gas mask. However, one of his most influential inventions was the improved traffic light.
Who said King Kong ain’t got sh** on me
Who is Denzel Washington?
Note: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received two Golden Globe awards, one Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory and Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day
What group sang Thank You (Falettinme Be....)
Who is Sly & The Family Stone
Note: Active from 1966 to 1983, it was pivotal in the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music. Its core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and included Stone's brother and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone, sister and singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham. It was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, male and female lineup.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of this fraternity, which was founded at Cornell University in 1906.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity Inc.?
Note: This fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally and socially, at Cornell.
In 1965, this was part of a series of civil rights protests by African Americans that occurred in Alabama in an effort to register black voters in the South by walking 54 miles to the State Capital.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
Note: Protesters walked around the clock for 3 days and were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups using nightsticks, tear gas, and whips after they refused to turn back.
George Washington Carver devised over 100 products using this major crop.
What is the peanut?
Note: George Washington Carver was born into slavery and went on to become on of the most prominent scientists and inventors of his time, as well as a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute.
From the movie Boomerang John Witherspoon is known for saying what line
What is you got to coordinate
Note: Witherspoon was also known for his over-the-top characters in films such as House Party, in which he played an irritated neighbor who is repeatedly woken up by the party, and Boomerang with Eddie Murphy, where he plays Mr. Jackson, the ill-mannered father of Murphy's best friend
Imagine this, he is multi-platinum gospel artist who bridges hip-hop, pop, R&B and gospel. He was the host and executive producer of BET's Sunday Best
Who is Kirk Franklin?
Note: At the age of seven Franklin received his first contract which his aunt turned down. He did join the church choir and became music director of the Mt. Rose Baptist Church adult choir at eleven years of age.
In January 15, 1908 a Greek-lettered sorority was founded. What was the first, established by African-American college educated women.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated?
Note: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) was founded on January 15th, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Miner Hall. AKA was incorporated on January 29th, 1913. Their purpose is service to all mankind.
She was the first African American child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the South in 1960, when she was six. She was escorted to and from class by U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Note: She was one of only six African American students to pass the test to determine whether or not they could attend a white school. It's said the test was written to be especially difficult so that students would have a hard time passing thereby delaying the integration of schools.
On October 11th 1887, Alexander Miles was awarded U.S. Patent for this invention.
What is the elevator door?
Note: Alexander Miles was an American inventor best known for being awarded a patent for automatically opening and closing elevator doors.
Police officer Carl Winslow wife, Harriette and Urkel starred in what show?
What is Family Matters
Note: The Winslow family is a pretty normal family except for one thing, their neighbor Stephen Urkel. A genius and klutz Steve makes some really weird inventions while driving the Winslows insane.
He won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1992, for Luther Vandross' "Power of Love" and in 2001 he won for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for his seventh solo instrumental album.
Who is Marcus Miller?
Note: Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, among others.
This black greek lettered organization tradition stems from African roots in games played by Congo children and gum-boot dancers of South African mines.
What is stepping and strolling?
Note: W.E.B. Du Bois, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., asserted, “In each case an attempt has been made to connect present conditions with the African past. This is not because Negro Americans are Africans, or can trace an unbroken social history from Africa, but because there is a distinct nexus between Africa and America, though broken and perverted, is nevertheless not to be neglected.”