Black History
The first Black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
"I can show you"..
What is "I can show you better than I can tell you"
This 2016 album by Beyonce' incorporated themes of Southern Black identity, disloyalty, and generational trauma
What is Lemonade?
The first Black woman elected Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Actor that played T'Challa in Black Panther
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
The year that the Civil Rights Act was passed
What is 1964?
"I was born at night"..
What is "I was born at night, but not last night"?
This hairstyle became a political symbol of black pride during the 1960s and 1970s
What is the Afro?
The first Black player in Major League Baseball
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Show featured the Banks family and the character Will from Philadelphia
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This 1963 event brought over 200,000 people to Washington, D.C., to demand jobs & freedom.
What is the March on Washington?
"I ain't one"..
What is "I ain't one of your lil friends"?
The Detroit-based label founded by Berry Gordy helped mainstream Black artists in 1960s
What is Motown?
The first black woman to become a self-made millionaire in America
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
TV show the character Steve Urkel appeared in
What is Family Matters?
This organization founded in 1966 created free breakfast programs & monitored police activity
What is the Black Panther Party?
"All I know is you better"..
What is "All I know is you better be inside before the streetlights come on."
This process describes when elements of black culture are adopted without credit or understanding of their origins
What is cultural appropriation?
The First African American person to earn a medical degree
Who is James McCune?
Early 2000s show featured Joan, Toni, Maya, and Lynn
What is Girlfriends?
This system of farming kept many formerly enslaved Black Americans in cycles of debt after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
"When we get in this store"..
What is "When we get in this store don't touch nothing, don't ask for nothing, don't even look at nothing."
This 1920s artistic explosion in New York City reshaped Black literature, music, and visual art
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The first black person to refuse to give up their seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
Who is Claudette Colvin?
A 1995 movie featuring four best friends named Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin
What is Waiting to Exhale?