Music
This performer was often referred to as the “Queen of Soul” and is known for hits like “Respect” and “Natural Woman."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Often described as the first Black President of the United States, this man was inaugurated in 2009 after being elected in 2008.
Who is Barak Obama?
This Martin Luther King Jr. speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. was broadcast live on national television in 1963.
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This scientist found many new uses for peanuts and taught farmers how to care for their soil.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This landmark Supreme Court case struck down racial segregation in American public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This basketball legend is often called “His Airness” and led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This legendary Motown group featured Diana Ross as its lead singer.
Who are The Supremes?
This jurist made history as the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This 2018 Marvel film featured a Black superhero king of Wakanda.
What is Black Panther?
This pioneering Black woman and hair-care entrepreneur, whose work centered on Black hair, is credited with inventing the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Which singer is remembered as the ‘queen of jazz’?
Ella Fitzgerald
She is the first African American woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
She is the first black woman to own her own TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Inventor Lonnie Johnson worked on NASA's Galileo mission and the Stealth bomber, but he is most well known for this invention.
What is the Super Soaker water gun?
This university, founded in 1837 in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s most prominent historically Black university.
What is Howard University?
This gymnast became the most decorated American gymnast in history, with 32 Olympic and World Championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
This award-winning hip hop artist was the first to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show as a solo act.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
She is the first black woman from Virginia to win a seat in Congress.
Who is Jennifer McClellan?
This actor appeared in both Coach Carter and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in 2005.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
Born into slavery, Sarah E. Goode is widely regarded as the first African American woman to receive a U.S. patent for her very practical space-saving invention.
What is the modern sofa bed (also known as the Murphy Bed, and originally called the Cabinet Bed by Sarah Goode)?
Known as the “Father of Black History,” this scholar created Negro History Week, which later became Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This was Serena Williams’s age when she won her first U.S. Open in 1999.
What is 17 years?
This R&B legend was killed by his father over a dispute about money.
Who is Marvin Gaye?
This person became the first Black American woman to serve as the United States Secretary of State in 2001.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
This woman was the first African American actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
This inventor created a traffic light that helped make streets safer.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This young girl became a national symbol of school desegregation when she integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Who is Elizabeth Eckford?
This is the team for which Jackie Robinson debuted in 1947 as Major League Baseball’s first Black player.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?