black history
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This Beyoncé album features the hit song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”
What is I Am… Sasha Fierce?*
This movement of the 1950s and 1960s fought to end segregation and secure equal rights under the law.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This basketball legend led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in the 1990s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This scientist and educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted agricultural education in the South.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, helping spark a major boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This sitcom starring Will Smith premiered in 1990 and is set in Bel-Air.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
This boycott began in 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This tennis champion won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era.
Who is Serena Williams?
She was a NASA mathematician whose calculations were critical to early U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1991 film, directed by John Singleton, explores life and violence in South Central Los Angeles.
What is Boyz n the Hood?*
Beginning in the early 20th century, this movement encouraged Black Americans to relocate from the South to northern and western cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This boxer, born Cassius Clay, became a global symbol of resistance after refusing military service in the 1960s.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This inventor improved the filament for the light bulb and held more than 60 patents.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
This Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Atlanta-based hip-hop group released the socially conscious album Aquemini in 1998.
Who is OutKast?*
Founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, this organization emphasized community self-defense and social programs.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This athlete broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This 18th-century poet was the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Founded in 1916, this newspaper became a major voice encouraging Black Americans to migrate north during the Great Migration.
What is the Chicago Defender?
Before becoming a global superstar, this rapper appeared on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Who is Drake?
This 1963 campaign in Alabama used mass demonstrations and media coverage to pressure the federal government to pass civil rights legislation.
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
The first black speed skater athlete to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Who is Shani Davis?
This mathematician helped develop the Global Positioning System (GPS) and became a U.S. Air Force general.
Who is Gladys West?