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Black Inventions
Black Folks said What?
Name That country
So That Happened
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This Great civilization located in what is now northern ethiopia was known for massive stone stelae, copper coinage, and the importance of their large, influential port on the Red Sea.
Aksum
100
Marie Van Brittan Brown, a black nurse invented what essential saftey device?
The home security system
100
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
– Maya Angelou
100
Nigeria
100
How many Africans were shipped to the new world during the Trans Atlantic slave trade
12.5 million
200
In October of 1967 this man became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshal
200
Lonnie Johnson black inventor and engineer holds over 120 patents one of which is this summer time toy
200
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
– Michelle Obama
200
Somalia
200
How many Africans died during the passage from africa to the new world?
About 1.7 million
300
What important organization was founded on February 12, 1909
300
With only an elementary school education, black inventor (and son of a slave), Garrett Morgan came up with this invention that you likely see every day on the way to work or school.
300
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
– Diana Ross
300
Ghana
300
How many states have yet to ratify the equal rights amendment
15. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.
400
This escaped slave taught himself to read and write before eventually becoming a prolific author and speaker
400
Charles Drew was a physician, surgeon, and medical researcher played a major role in developing the first large-scale
400
I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
– Serena Williams
400
ITS NOT A COUNTRY
400
Which celebrated song has a third verse dedicated to the murder of slaves?
Our national anthem
“No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…”