Inventors & Inventions
What is the traffic light?
She served as Vice President and subsequently ran, for President in hopes to be the first and only Black woman to hold either office.
Who is Kamala Harris?
In 1960, this child was the first to integrate an all-white school in the South.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This musician is credited as a foundational figure in the development of Jazz as an art form, introducing solo improvisational performance.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
What is 15 years old?
He is best known for creating peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This Supreme Court case declared state sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Winning 2 of her total 13 Grammys in one night, this musician became the first Black woman to win the award.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This director, writer and actor adapted Greek tragedy Lysistrata into a modern musical about gun violence in Chicago.
Who is Spike Lee?
Winning the 4x400 meter relay, this man became the first Black man to win gold in the Olympics.
Who is John Taylor?
Typically used in the kitchen (of your house and your head), this item was invented by Madame C.J. Walker.
What is the hot comb?
The year that the Emmett Till Antilynching Act was signed and put into effect, making lynching a federal hate crime.
What is 2022?
First Black woman elected to the US Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Appearing on his third studio album, this song by a 26-time Grammy winning rapper has been heavily associated with the Black Lives Matter Movement.
What is Alright by Kendrick Lamar?
The film that landed actor Sidney Poitier his first Oscar.
What is Lilies of the Field?
Combining martial arts and aerobics, he created a fitness system that took the 90s by storm.
Who is Billy Blanks?
This civil rights activist, politician, and Baptist minister with ties to Martin Luther King, Jr. recently passed away.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
She was the first Black Pulitzer Prize winner.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
This Baldwin novel explores the complex intersections of race, sexuality, and identity in the lives of a group of friends in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France during the late 1950s
What is Another Country?
Of the 13 colonies, this was the first to ban slavery in 1777.
What is Vermont?
Who is Thomas Elkins?
In 1966, these college students founded the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
The first Black recording artists to have 3 albums certified Diamond in the US.
Who is Whitney Houston?
Working with the likes of Spike Lee, John Singleton and Ryan Coogler over the span of her career this costume designer became the most nominated Black woman in the 2026 Oscars.
Who is Ruth E. Carter?
The first commercially successful rap record.
What is Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang?