Fact of the Day
This medical practice was brought to America by a slave named Onesimus in 1706, and was used to combat smallpox
What is Inoculation
This period was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in New York City spanning the 1920s and 1930s
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Who was the first person to deny giving up their seat, thus sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?
Who is Claudette Colvin
Which amendment of the constitution protects the rights of African Americans?
What is the 13th amendment?
This person broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by the Dodger's
Who is Jackie Robinson
This person was the only African American to serve on the initial executive board of the NAACP, and the founder of the Niagara Movement (Precursor to the NAACP). He pushed for the name to include colored people so that ALL people of color could find refuge.
This widely celebrated Holiday marks the day a Union General road to Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended, and slaves had been freed
What is Juneteenth
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This "conductor" usually carried a gun, not a whistle
Who is Harriet Tubman
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King improvised the most important part of this master speech after singer Mahalia Jackson yelled to him.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech
The name of the umbrella organization that houses the 9 black Greek-lettered organizations( AΦA, AKA, KAΨ, ΩΨΦ, ΔΣΘ, ΦBΣ, ΖΦB, ΣΓΡ, ΙΦΘ) often referred to the divine-9
What is the National Pan-Hellenic Council
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first president
What is Tuskegee University
This woman's non-consensual sacrifice gave birth to the first immortal cell line
Who is Henrietta Lacks
This artist is responsible for the bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that inspired the profile found on the obverse of the dime, and is an Winston Salem State University Graduate
Who is Selma Burke
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Birmingham Church Bombing
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisolm
This man is responsible for leading the fist successful slave revolt
Who is Nat Turner
This African American surgeon pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
This artist became the first female rapper to certify as diamond for her album which contained the hits" Doo Wop (that thing)", and "Ex-Factor"
Who is Lauryn Hill
The brutal murder of this young boy for allegedly whistling at a white woman, was the spark of the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open casket and a picture of his body was nationally circulated
Who is Emmitt Till
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp? ( He was also the first African American to dine in the white house)
Who is Booker T. Washington
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
Who is George Washington Carver