Authors that Changed America
BLACK MUSIC
BLACK INVENTORS
NOTABLE BLACK PEOPLE
BLACK LEGACY
100
She was the youngest inaugural poet in US history.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
100
This Toronto area rapper got his start on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Who is Drake?
100
Garret Morgan created this to keep our roads safer.
What is the three-light traffic signal?
100
The First Black President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
He has transformed young adult literature with his unique writing style, merging poetry with colloquial language to reflect the lives of Black and Brown youth in the US and beyond.
Who is Jason Reynolds?
200
He said, "They not like us."
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
200
In 1966 before ring cams, Marie Van Brittan created this.
What is a Home Security System?
200
This black business woman began a civil rights movement in Nova Scotia by refusing to leave the whites-only section of the Roseland Theater.
Who is Viola Desmond?
200
Maya Angelou's most famous for her groundbreaking 1969 autobiography, entitled this.
What is "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
300
He is the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize for two consecutive novels.
Colson Whitehead
300
Beyonce used to sing with this group.
Who is Destiny's Child?
300
Before Thomas Edison, in 1881 was Lewis Latimer who worked to create longer lasting light blubs with this.
What is a carbon filament?
300
He is a 7 times Summer Olympic medalist.
Who is Andre De Grasse?
300
She was the celebrated conductor of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes, and she made at least 13 missions to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
Her journey from Haiti to New York inspired her to write novels that capture the immigrant experience's diversity and challenges, blending elements of fantasy, social justice and cultural identity in her impactful young adult fiction.
Who is Ibi Zoboi?
400
This Scarborough native is currently bringing his "After Hours Till Dawn" tour internationally.
Who is The Weekend? (AKA Abel Tesfaye )
400
Madame CJ Walker wanted black women to move beyond hair wraps and wear their hair proudly with her invention of this.
Hair care products and the hot comb.
400
This picture was taken during a famous speech by this person.
When is Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have A Dream" Speech, on September 9, 1965?
400
Michaëlle Jean is the first Black person and first Caribbean-born Canadian to serve in this position from 2005 - 2010.
What is the Governor General of Canada?
500
At a time when Jim Crow laws made racial segregation legal across much of the United States, he gave voice to a struggle – as the first African American author to achieve widespread critical and commercial success.
Who is author Richard Wright?
500
This music genre, characterized by its use of turntables and sampling, was founded in Black American communities in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s.
What is Hip Hop?
500
He is the inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
Who was the Black American mathematician and NASA scientist portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” for her pivotal role in the early days of the U.S. space program? (also featured in a book in our library).
Who is Kathrine Johnson?
500
After the murder of George Floyd, this group led a worldwide protest of police brutality toward Black people.
Who is Black Lives Matter?
