Sports
This stylish African American female track and field gold medalist held the Olympic record in the women's 100 meter for 33 years. She still holds the world record in the women's 100 meter.
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Name of the Disney channel's first animated sitcom with an all Black cast.
The Proud family
He was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom. He became the founder and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1816.
Richard Allen
What is oldest civil rights organization still in existence today?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); est 1909
Ella Fitzgerald was known for having a remarkable three octave range. What company's popular commercial featured a tape recording of her voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
What basketball star center perfected a shot known as the “skyhook”?
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
This renowned singer and pianist was the first African American to host a TV show
Nat King Cole (The Nat King Cole Show - NBC)
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published African American newspaper in the United States?
Philadelphia Tribune
In 2021, this celebration, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became a federal holiday. It's also the first federal holiday established since MLK Day in 1983
Juneteenth - National Independence Day
Nayvadius Wilburn is the real name of which famous rapper?
Future
This former NBA player joined the board of directors and became the national spokesperson for Papa Johns and is featured in its commercials.
Shaquille O'Neal
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Name two of the nine characters Martin Lawrence played on the TV show "Martin"
Martin, Bob (from Marketing), Dragonfly Jones, Jerome, Otis, Roscoe, Sheneneh, Mama Payne, Elroy, King Beef
What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
Marion Anderson
What civil rights leader from Mississippi was slain in 1963?
Medgar Evers
Originally dubbed Tamla Records in 1959, what highly successful record company did Berry Gordy, Jr. incorporate in 1960?
Motown Records
She has changed the game of tennis in ways that will continue to reverberate for generations to come.
Serena Williams
Which Black sitcom was rebooted in 2022 as a drama with different actors?
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Name both of the two HBCU's established and still operating in Pennsylvania
Cheyney University and Lincoln University
Complete Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech.
“Free at last, free at last; thank God almighty, ….”
“… we are free at last.”
After publishing a photo essay on the life of a Harlem gang leader, he was hired by Life magazine as its first African American staff photographer in 1948.
Gordon Parks
In 1949, who became the first Black American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player award?
Jackie Robinson
What Alex Haley novel, published in 1976, was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and a sequel in 1979?
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Michael King, Jr, more popularly known by this name, received his Bachelors of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in Upland, PA
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1961 groups of Black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants. By what name was this group known?
Freedom Riders
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
This celebration of Black history, created by Carter G. Woodson in 1926, was the precursor to Black History Month.
Negro History Week