Movie Quotes
"His momma named him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay"
What is Coming to America?
Some of the most iconic music in U.S. history, appropriately called “the sound of young America,” was created in the small brick house. Name this museum.
What is the Motown Museum?
Name one African American woman from the south who contributed to the development of social services for African American children.
Who is Janie Porter Barrett, Fredericka Douglass Spraque Perry, or Carrie Steele?
Name Stevie Wonder's real first name.
What is Stevland?
Name the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps that earned more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
"We didn't land on Plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us."
What is Malcolm X?
This resort was founded in 1912 for the Black Community during the era of Jim Crow Laws. Famous black entertainers including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, B.B. King, and Etta James have visited this spot.
What is Idlewild?
Name the orphan home in Atlanta in 1888 founded by Carrie Steele.
What is the Carrie Steele-Pitts Group Home?
Name the original members of The Supremes.
Who are Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, & Diana Ross?
On December 1st, 1955, a 42-year-old woman name Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus after work. Name the movement that began following this event.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
"You are the perfect verse over a tight beat."
What is Brown Sugar?
The Gilmore Car Museum is the largest auto museum in North America, housing one of Michigan’s largest vintage car collections. This museum was famously depicted in the 2018 Academy Award-winning biographical drama “Green Book” and is located here.
What is Hickory Corners? (Barry County)
Name the federal legislative act that addresses the disparities identified at each decision point for African American children who come under the microscope of the child welfare system.
What is the African American Child Welfare Act?
This song was Motown's biggest hit.
What is Endless Love by Diana Ross & Lionel Richie?
This act guaranteed equal employment for all, limited the use of voter literacy tests, and allowed federal authorities to ensure public facilities were integrated.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
"Hey Auntie."
What is Black Panther?
This museum has a centerpiece of And Still We Rise exhibition, which contains over 20 galleries documenting a timeline of African and African American history. Name the city where the museum is located.
What is Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit?
Identify the percentage of Black children in the U.S. that will experience a child welfare investigation before their 18th birthday.
What is over 50%?
This song was the first duet sung by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell.
What is Ain't No Mountain Hight Enough?
This activist group mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington D.C. and toured the American South to protest segregated bus terminals in 1961.
What are the Freedom Riders?
"One band, one sound."
What is Drumline?
This National Register of Historic Places designated site was not just an Underground Railroad stop, but also the home of one of Michigan’s most active families on the Underground Railroad. This home was built in 1835 was owned by Dr. Nathan Thomas the 1st physician and Quaker Abolitionist. Name the county where this home resides.
What is Kalamazoo County?
Name the act that seeks to correct the injustice of African American families by establishing standards that prevent the unnecessary and traumatic removal of children from their parents.
What is the African American Family Preservation Act?
This was Motown's first recording artist.
Who are the Satintones?
On March 7th, 1965, this civil rights movement in Alabama took a violent turn as 600 peaceful demonstrators participated in the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of Black civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a white police officer.
What is Bloody Sunday?