Historical Events
He was the first black person to be elected president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
BET is an acronym for this cable channel.
What is Black Entertainment Television?
Jack Johnson was the First Black Heavyweight Champion in this sport.
What is boxing?
This woman was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He released the album Scorpion in 2018.
Who is Drake?
In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn this medical title in the United States.
What is a doctor?
This movie famously tells the story of three African American women who worked at NASA during the Space Race.
What is “Hidden Figures?”
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This 1960s activist joined the Nation of Islam and preached Black self-reliance and empowerment.
Who is Malcolm X?
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win this award for the film Gone With the Wind.
What is an Oscar?
The Supreme Court Case Brown vs Board of Education unanimously decided that racial segregation in public school violated the 14th amendment. This landmark verdict reversed the doctrine: “_______ but _______.”
What is “Separate but equal?”
This American Filmmaker built a multimillion-dollar brand by creating content for an audience that was often ignored by Hollywood. He continues to showcase A-list and up-and-coming Black talent in his work, which includes the Madea franchise.
Who is Tyler Perry?
He refused to join the US Military and fight in the Vietnam War, citing religious reasons. He was convicted of failure to report for military service and stripped of his boxing titles.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This person was one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He later joined Congress in 1987. He passed away in 2020.
Who is John Lewis?
This era named after a New York City neighborhood marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics turned their attention seriously to African American literature, music, art and politics.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
On January 1, 1863 this order was issued by President Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves to be free in states that had seceded from the United States. It helped to cripple the confederacy during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This film by Jordan Peel won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2017.
What is “Get Out?”
He was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history".
Who is Jesse Owens?
W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of this civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP?
The "First Lady of Song", she won the award for Best Vocal Performance, Female at the first Grammy ceremonies in 1959 .
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
In 1957 these nine students enrolled at the Central High School in Arkansas right after laws abolished segregation in schools.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Quinta Brunson is creator, executive producer, writer, and star of which Emmy Award winning comedy series set in a Philadelphia Elementary school?
What is “Abbott Elementary?”
He was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
The activist Medgar Evers served as the NAACP's first field officer in this state.
What is Mississippi?
From 1921 until her death in 1962, Augusta Savage was a prominent artist and teacher. She is recognized as a master of this art medium.
What is sculpture?