Historical Figures
Helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
Rapped the song “Juicy”
The Notorious B.I.G./Biggie
First Lady who wrote “Becoming”
Michelle Obama
The name of the basketball player who is #23 on the Lakers
The first Black justice confirmed to the Supreme Court on August 30, 1967
Thurgood Marshall
Was the first Black person to appear on a U.S. postage stamp
Booker T. Washington
Music genre that Black folks were most prominent in
Jazz music
Name one of the most popular topics within Black literature
(Multiple answers) slave narratives, calls for independence, protests against colonization, African pride
Black woman has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles in Tennis
Serena Williams
The period in the 1920s that was as an awakening of Black culture
Harlem Renaissance
The first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the South
Rudy Bridges
Music Award Show established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Network
BET Awards
Country of birth of author Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
The first Black baseball player, who debuted under the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
The historic 1960s Woolworth store sit-in occur
Greensboro, North Carolina
The first Black female Representative in Congress
Shirley Chisholm
The Black artist with the most Grammys
Michael Jackson
Created the term “double consciousness” in the “Souls of Black Folk”
W.E.B. Du Bois
The first Black athlete to win four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Jesse Owens
In 1993, became the first Black woman to receive the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature
Toni Morrison
An escaped slave who became an activist, author, and public speaker
Frederick Douglass
Music genre that roots back to the days of slavery
Gospel music
Black literature tends to be written with dialects and what three colonial languages
French, Portuguese, and English
Black woman was named as the “Most Dominant Athlete” of 2018 by ESPN the magazine
Simone Biles
The year the was NAACP founded
1909