History & Politics
This man was the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This movie became the highest-grossing film directed by a Black filmmaker in 2018.
What is Black Panther?
This NBA legend won six championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This scientist discovered over 300 uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The famous 1963 speech given by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is “I Have a Dream”?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This artist released the album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
He was the first Black athlete to play Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first African American woman to travel in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This activist refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Location of the Black Wall Street in the early 1900's.
Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
This poet wrote Mother to Son.
Who is Langston Hughes?
She was the first Black woman to become an all-around gymnastics Olympic champion.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
This scientist co-developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
He was the leader of the Nation of Islam before becoming a civil rights activist.
Who is Malcolm X?
The U.S. holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people.
What is Juneteenth?
The music genre, characterized by its use of turntables and sampling, was founded in Black American communities in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s?
What is Hip Hop?
This boxer called himself “The Greatest.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This scientist helped create the traffic light.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This law, signed in 1964, ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
He released the groundbreaking album “What’s Going On” in 1971, addressing social and political issues of the time?
Who is Marvin Gaye?
He was the first African American NFL quarterback to win the Super Bowl MVP in 1988.
Who is Doug Williams?
The first Black astronaut in space.
Who is Guion Bluford?
This organization was co-founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966.
What is the Black Panther Party?