Rights on the Rise
Who was known as "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"?
Septima Poinsette Clark
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She was involved in petitioning for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, to hire African American teachers.
What is the name of the self-made millionaire who invented a cream to help hair grow back?
Madam C.J. Walker
Which Hall of Fame shooting guard said, "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."?
Michael Jordan
Who is often credited as the “Godfather of Soul”?
James Brown
What is Alice Walkers most famous novel called?
"The Color Purple"
Who was the leader of the NAACP from 1955 to 1963 that helped lead to victories like Brown v. The BOE and the voting rights act of 1965?
Roy Wilkins
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He also helped organize the march on Washington
Name the two inventions by Garret A. Morgan.
The Gas Mask and The Traffic Signal
Which author said, "Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
Coretta Scott King
Which Motown group had hits like “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”?
The Temptations
What is the oldest known piece of African American Literature?
“Bars Fight” by Lucy Terry - A ballad about Indian attack on Massachusetts from the middle of the 18th century
Who coordinated the Birmingham, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi Freedom Ride after the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) was forced to discontinue it?
Diane Nash
Who was held in such high regard that his inventions were called "the Real McCoy"?
Elijah McCoy
Which Author and Poet said, "For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
Dr. Maya Angelou
Which artist was recognized by New York Times as "One of America’s leading modern figurative painters"?
Jacob Lawrence
The 19th-century autobiography 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' was published under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Its actual author was...
Harriet Jacobs
Which book written by Martin Luther King Jr. recounted the events that led to the capaign in Birmingham, Alabama, to end segregation?
Why we can't wait
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This was one of 5 books written by MLK.
Which inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut?
Dr. George Washington Carver
Which Civil Rights Activist said, "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first African-American photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship?
Roy De Carava
Who was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism?
(Hint: This author also won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her 2010 history 'The Warmth of Other Suns')
Isabel Wilkerson
Who organized the bus boycotts following the arrest of Rosa Parks?
Jo Ann Robinson
Who invented Automatic Elevator Doors in 1887?
Alexander Miles
Which famous boxer said, "I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
Muhammad Ali
What festival, celebrated annually, honors African and African American music, culture, and history?
AfroPunk Fest
Which author and activist’s FBI file contained a whopping 1,884 pages – the biggest file the U.S. federal agency ever compiled on any writer?
James Baldwin