Historical Figures
Community Outreach
Hodgepodge
Famous Children of Famous People
Final Jeopardy Question!
100
This mathematician, whose work for NASA was critical to the success of the first and subsequent US crewed spaceflights, was famously depicted in the film Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson
100
In July 2013, this movement began with the use of the hashtag on social media after the acquittal in the shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin.
Black Lives Matter
100
This song was dubbed “the Negro national anthem” by the NAACP in 1919
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
100
This pre-teen daughter of performers Beyonce and Jay-Z is the second youngest person to win a Grammy award.
Blue Ivy Carter
200
This former head of the Tuskegee University agricultural department famously invented peanut butter and other peanut based innovations.
George Washington Carver
200
This American philanthropic organization funds scholarships for Black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically Black colleges and universities.
United Negro College Fund
200
This holiday, also known as Freedom Day, is traditionally celebrated on June 19th.
Juneteenth
200
This actress, born of the former lead singer of the Supremes, is known for her roles in the television series Girlfriends and Black-ish.
Tracey Ellis Ross
300
This outspoken advocate for gay and trans rights was also a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
Marsha P. Johnson
300
This political organization touted revolutionaries such as Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale.
Black Panther Party
300
This entertainer and civil rights activist, depicted here, was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture.
Josephine Baker
300
This comedienne daughter of the Minnie Riperton, the “queen of the whistle register”, recently depicted Vice President Kamala Harris on the improv show, Saturday Night Live.
Maya Rudolph
400
This politician was the first black woman elected to US Congress, the first African-American candidate for a major party's nomination, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Shirley Chisholm
400
Emerging from student led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, this organization was the principal channel of student commitment in the US civil rights movement of the 1960's.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
400
This HBCU near the Virginia "Roads" region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern reading
Hampton University
400
Grammy award winning producer Quincy Jones is the father of this actress, who starred in the television shows “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation”.
Rashida Jones
500
This woman was an unwitting source of the first immortalized human cell line, this woman's cells were taken from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Henrietta Lacks
500
This invite-only organization, founded during the Great Depression, focuses on educating children socially, politically civically, and financially.
Jack and Jill
500
The painter seen here was commissioned to paint a portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Kehinde Wiley
500
Roxie Roker, who starred in the television show "The Jeffersons" is the mother of this Grammy award winning rock musician.
Lenny Kravitz
500
Famous Black Authors
“Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” is a Latin phrase that means one for all, all for one. A French version, was made famous in the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, by this author.
Alexandre Dumas