History
This athlete won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
On the TV series, Magnum P.I., this was the nickname of actor Roger Mosley’s character.
What is T.C.?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th?
This person, born in Massachusetts, was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard and wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Starting with $1.50 in cash, Mary McLeod Bethune founded this college.
What is Bethune Cookman College?
He was only 14 years old when he was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
This actor provided the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movie series.
Who is James Earl Jones?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This person founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
The congressional Black Caucus was organized in this year.
What is 1971?
This person was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This “Father of the Blues” was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873.
Who is W.C. Handy?
This U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry was better known by this stage name and was the first Black millionaire actor.
Who is Stepin Fetchit?
Malcolm X’s birth name
What is Malcolm Little?
The Zoot Suit Riots took place in this year.
What is 1943?
This American writer and poet’s autobiography is entitled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This group organized the Freedom Rides in 1961.
What is CORE-Congress of Racial Equality?
Her refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This grand promoter of peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans is widely credited with inventing peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This person was the first American killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This musician has held the position of managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center since its inception in 1987.
Who is Wynton Marsalis?
Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates this.
What is the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.?
He was the first African American to earn a bachelor’s degree in 1823.
Who is Alexander Lucius Twilight?
This state has the most Black institutions of higher learning.
What is Georgia?