Black Film/Literature/Music
This book and movie profiled four women whose work in Mathematics played an important role in the US space program.
What is Hidden Figures?
This woman helped hundreds of slaves in the southern US escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Born Cassius Clay, he is the self-proclaimed greatest of all time in boxing and is know for rhymes like "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Who is Muhamad Ali?
This man created the carbon light bulb filament
Who is Lewis Latimer?
The month we celebrate black history
What is February.
Historic novel turned movie that tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an African American Mman that was kidnapped from Gambia and sold into slavery.
What is Roots?
She triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus
Who is Rosa Parks?
He is known as the fastest man in the world.
Who is Usain Bolt?
The first 3-stop traffic signal was created and patented by this individual in 1923.
Who is Garrett A Morgan?
This federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States
What is Juneteenth?
This is where Jazz was born
What is New Orleans?
He was the first African American justice on the US Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This woman was the first self-made millionaire and she invented her own hair care line.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
In 2008 he became the first African American President of the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
This famous Jazz singer and scatter was known as the lady of song and also performed duets with Duke Ellington and Luis Armstrong.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This intellect was the first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard University. He was also a founder of NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
In 1997, he was the first African American professional golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournment.
Who is Tiger Woods?
Her eight-day space flight aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992 established her as the United States' first female African American space traveler.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Citizens enslaved in this state were the last to be notified of their freedom
What is Texas?
Known as the king of blues
Who is B.B. King?
This individual organized the United States first black nationalist movement. He was also founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which aimed to achieve black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
She was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet
Who is Misty Copeland?
She earned an international pilot’s license on June 15, 1921, in France after being rejected from American flight schools for being black and a woman. She returned to the US to teach other to fly and was known for her stunts.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This is the year the emancipation proclamation was issued
What is 1863?