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Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”?
Answer: Aretha Franklin.
What is the name of the movie where Chadwick Boseman portrayed Jackie Robinson?
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What city was the center of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s?
Birmingham, Alabama
Who played the lead role in the movie Malcolm X?
Denzel Washington
What famous Black musician is known for the song “What a Wonderful World”?
Louis Armstrong
Who was the first Black woman to host the Academy Awards?
Whoopi Goldberg
Who became the first Black president of the United States?
Barack Obama.
Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress?
Shirley Chisolm
What landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education.
What is the name of the first Black person to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who starred in the groundbreaking 1967 movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Sidney Poitier.
What is the name of the all-Black military regiment during the Civil War?
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
What year was slavery abolished in the United States?
1865
What movie features the famous line “Bye, Felicia”?
Friday
What is the name of the Netflix series about the Central Park Five?
When They See Us
What is the name of the character played by Eddie Murphy in Coming to America?
Prince Akeem.
What was the name of the ship that brought enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619?
The White Lion
What 2021 movie stars Regina King as a director and follows a fictional meeting of Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, and Muhammad Ali?
A Night in Miami
What 1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teenager from West Philadelphia?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is the author of The Souls of Black Folk?
W.E.B DuBois
Who was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field?
Alice Coachman.
Who sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 1993 Super Bowl?
Whitney Houston
What is the title of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?
Beloved
Who is the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry.
Who is known as the “Father of Black History”?
Carter G. Woodson.