AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Heman Sweatt integrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this
What is Equal?
Winning the Oscar for her role as Rose Maxson, she called "Fences" a movie about "life & forgiveness & grace"
Who is Viola Davis?
The National Museum of African American History & Culture opened in 2016 as part of this museum complex
What is the Smithsonian?
"All Hail the Queen" & "The Dana Owens Album" are releases by this actress & hip hop artist
Who is Queen Latifah?
The Naismith Award
(College) Basketball
Florida A&M University in this state capital is the only HBCU in the state university system of Florida
What is Tallahassee?
Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the Republicans were the first black holders of this post
What is party chairman?
Maya Angelou wrote in one of her famed poems that this title creature "sings of freedom"
What is the caged bird?
These 2 Atlanta colleges were both founded soon after the Civil War & "Spelhouse" marriages between alums are not rare
Who are Morehouse & Spelman?
An award for African-American authors & illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Coretta Scott King?
The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not)
Baseball
The Oaks, former home of Booker T. Washington, & the George Washington Carver Museum are at this Alabama school
What is Tuskeegee?
Despite the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she made many trips back to Maryland to aid liberations
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Bill Clinton Presidential Library has the sunglasses Clinton wore for his sax-playing appearance on this man's talk show
Who is Arsenio Hall?
Now 115 years old, the Chicago Defender isn't a Bears safety but one of the oldest of these for African Americans
What is a newspaper?
Between the time this boxer retired in 1977 & again in 1997, he began hawking lean mean grilling machine
Who is George Foreman?
The Ballon d'Or
What is Soccer?
Fisk University in Nashville has a master's- to-Ph.D. bridge program in conjunction with this local private university
What is Vanderbilt University?
In 1968 at this school, SFSU for short, Nathan Hare created the USA's first black studies program
What is San Francisco State University?
"Black Boy" is this "Native Son" author's autobiography
Who is Richard Wright?
In 1960 at a segregated lunch counter in N.C., 4 African-American students staged one of these immobile protests
What is a sit-in?
In 2005 Baltimore/Washington Intl. Airport was renamed for this late Supreme Court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Dinah Shore Trophy Award
What is (Women's college) golf?
Future Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche set up the political science department at this Washington, D.C. school
What is Howard?
In a series, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted this "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century
What is the "Great Migration?"
Established to help 4 million African Americans transition out of slavery, this bureau lasted from 1865 to 1872
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa
What is the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal)?
Representing Texas from 1973 to 1979, she was the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress
Who is Barbara Jordan?
The Slammy Awards
What is Pro Wrestling or the WWE?
This U. near the Va. "Roads" region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern reading
What is Hampton?