Fighting For A Cause
The Supreme Court case that opened all public schools to black students?
WHAT IS: Brown v. Board of Education
She was the first black female astronaut to reach orbit.
Who is: Guion Bluford
Hip Hop music started in this decade.
WHAT IS: 1970s
Author of bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
WHO IS: Maya Angelou
The first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance was won by this entertainer.
WHO ARE: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
The city Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
WHAT IS: Montgomery, Alabama
The secret escape system Harriet Tubman use to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom?
WHO IS: The underground Railroad
She was first black woman ever named to the cabinet of a U.S. president.
WHO IS: Patricia R. Harris
The part of New York City that became a popular place for African-American artists, writers, and musicians in the 1920s
WHAT IS: Harlem
The first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year
WHO IS: Lauryn Hill
Jackie Robinson Played this sport
WHAT IS: Baseball
The Presidential inauguration Maya Angelou became the first woman and first African American to recite a poem
WHO IS: Bill Clinton
Rosa Parks occupation at the time of her historic bus incident.
WHAT IS: Department Store Seamtress
Thomas Dorsey is considered the father of this music?
WHAT IS: Gospel
Marian Anderson performed her famous 1939 concert here
WHAT IS: The Lincoln Memorial
As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes...
WHAT IS: Acting, poetry Jazz & ballet
She was in Show Biz, but also a spy for the French during WWII.
WHO IS:Josephine Baker
The breakthrough work of Dr. Charles Drew’s on the storage of this helped save lives
WHAT IS: Blood
THE 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their Skin.
WHAT IS: Cilvil Rights Act
In 1945 John H. Johnson create this magazine.
What is: Ebony Magazine
The first African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon -- Althea Gibson, or Arthur Ashe
WHO IS: Althea Gibson
In 1939, she wasn't able to perform at Constitution Hall because of a "white performers only” policy but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt protested and the singer eventually performed at Lincoln Memorial.
WHO IS: Marian Anderson
The name of the twins from the popular sitcom Sister, Sister
WHO ARE: Tia & Tamera
The initials NAACP stand for this
WHAT IS: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What was the name of the protest in the South in which black and white people rode together on buses?
WHAT IS: Freedom Riders
The author of the book Roots.
Who is: Alex Haley
The year the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves
WHAT IS:1619
Interracial marriage in the United Sates was banned in 1664 and not overturned until this year
WHAT IS: 1967
The great jazz musician whose nickname is Satchmo?
WHO IS: Louis Armstrong
The great award Ralph Bunche won for helping end the first Arab-Israeli War
WHAT IS: Nobel Peace PrizeJo