What African American scientist discovered one hundred different ways to use the peanut?
George Washington Carver
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the first African American elected president of the United States?
Barack Obama
In the Cosby Show the parents are known for being African American professionals. What were their careers.
Doctor and Lawyer
This African American artists revolutionized the music industry by winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album without a label?
Chance the Rapper
Madame C. J. Walker was the first African American millionaire, what is she known for inventing?
hair products
These laws prohibited African American's from things such as voting, interaction between races, and education. They began after the Civil War and lasted to the 1960s?
Jim Crow Laws
This civil rights leader is known for being the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Martin Luther King Jr.
This African American director jumpstarted his career dressed in drag. He now owns his own production company and studio in Atlanta, Georgia
Tyler Perry
This iconic 1970s tv show introduced America to African American music and culture every Saturday morning.
Soul Train
Katherine Johnson was a well-known mathematician who worked for NASA, and was known as the "human computer". What is the name of 2017 movie that depicts her life?
Langston Hughes' wrote what to the slaves is the fourth of July. What is the holiday that we as African American's celebrate to commemorate our independence?
Juneteenth
This civil rights leader challeged the notion of peaceful protest and was a member of the muslim faith?
Malcom X
This actor is famous for movies, such as In the Heat of the Night, Rasin in the Sun and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He is also the first African American to win best actor for Lilies of the Field in 1964?
Sidney Poitier
Detroit
This individual was the first African American astrounat for NASA?
Mae Jemison
These nine African American students integrated Central High School in 1957 in what Arkansas city?
Little Rock
This civil rights leader challegend apartheid in South Africa, and subsequently served 27 years in prison. Before becoming its first black president.
Nelson Mandela
What is the name of Spike Lee's production company?
Forty Acres and A Mule
100 years ago there was a movement of black expression in New York City which introduced the world to artforms such as jazz, poetry, tap, and ragtime. What is this 1920's era known as?
Harlem Renaissance
This modern day invention was created by Henry Thomas Samposn, Jr., because of him we are able to contact anyone in a matter of seconds. What did he invent?
This book provided African Americans with advice on safe places to eat and sleep when they traveled through the Jim Crow-era United States.
Green book
This African American congresswoman was the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential primary in 1972?
Shirley Chisholm
Hattie McDaniel won best actress in 1940 for what post antebellum film?
Gone with the Wind
This New Orleans native sang at the March on Washington and is known as the "Queen of Gospel"?
Mahalia Jackson