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The name of Disney's first and only African American princess
Who is Tiana?
George Washington Carver was recognized for his revolutionary products created from this crop
Peanuts
The title of the black national anthem
What is Lift Every Voice & Sing?
This black leader famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955
Who is Rosa Parks?
Who famously said:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Jackie Robinson's jersey number
What is 42?
This invention by Garrett Morgan keeps traffic running smoothly today
What is the traffic light?
An organized network of secret routes and safe houses for fugitive slaves to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States
What is the Underground Railroad?
The city where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I Have a Dream speech
What is Washington, DC?
The person that coordinates the Davis Library Teen Advisory Board (TAB)
Who is Ms. Mel?
The Grammy award winning artist who recorded her own hit version of Dolly Parton's song I Will Always Love You
Who is Whitney Houston?
Lewis Latimer improved the lightbulb by inventing a long-lasting _____ filament (Hint: it's an element on the periodic table)
What is carbon?
The state that President Barack Obama was senator of before his presidency
What is Illinois?
The holiday celebrated annually on June 19th to signify the end of slavery in the United States
What is Juneteenth?
The musician that sang this lyric:
"R.E.S.P.E.C.T, find out what it means to me"
Who is Aretha Franklin?
In 2025, Kendrick Lamar won a Grammy for his diss track "Not Like Us about this fellow rap artist
Who is Drake?
The popular toy gun that Lonnie Green, an aerospace engineer for NASA, invented
What is the super soaker?
In 2009, this Jamaican sprinter (and the world's fastest man) set the current world record in the 100-meter sprint at 9.58 seconds
Who is Usain Bolt?
The landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The boxer that said "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee – his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The female musical artist that holds the record for the most Grammy wins of all time (Hint: She's alive and still making hits)
Who is Beyonce'?
Frederick McKinley Jones developed this in the 1940s to enable the transport of food, blood, and medicine
What is a refrigerated truck?
The first female self-made millionaire in the United States
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
The Act that ended segregation in public places
What was The Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The poet who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise"
Who is Dr. Maya Angelou?