Black History & Civil Rights
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Known as the “Queen of Soul,” she recorded “Respect.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This side dish made from elbow pasta is a cookout staple.
What is macaroni and cheese?
This month is officially recognized as Black History Month in the United States.
What is February?
This fictional African nation is home to T’Challa.
What is Wakanda?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This artist’s 1982 album remains the best-selling album of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson? (Thriller)
This red drink is commonly seen in a clear jug at many cookouts.
What is red juice?
This historically Black university, founded in 1867, is located in Washington, D.C.
What is Howard University?
This slang word is used to strongly agree or say “exactly.”
What is “Period”?
This activist co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later popularized the phrase “Black Power.”
Who is Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)?
This jazz trumpeter released the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Who is Miles Davis?
This unspoken rule says you can’t leave the cookout without taking a plate home.
What is “take plate”?
This inventor patented an improved traffic signal in 1923.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
This 1995 comedy gave us the phrase “Bye, Felicia.”
What is Friday?
This 1965 piece of legislation eliminated literacy tests and protected Black voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This rapper became the first hip-hop billionaire in 2019.
Who is Jay-Z
This card game is often played competitively at cookouts and family gatherings.
What is Spades?
This Harlem Renaissance writer authored Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
What does it mean if your ears keep itching?
What is somebody talking about you?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This classical composer and pianist became the first African American woman to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra in 1933.
Who is Florence Price?
This phrase refers to the family member who critiques everyone’s plate and asks, “That’s all you’re eating?”
Who is the Auntie?
This 1921 violent attack destroyed a prosperous Black community known as “Black Wall Street.”
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
In what city was MLK assassinated?
What is Memphis TN?