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While enrolled at Stanford University to study pre-med, she won the U.S. Figure Skating National Championship (1986, 1988) and the World Figure Skating Champion (1986). What's more, in the 1998 Winter Olympics, she was the first African-American to win a medal in the Winter Games.
Debbie Thomas
Madagascar
The Lion King and early Star Wars films feature the iconic voice of what African American actor?
This was the black intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in New York, spanning the 1920s.
This organization can trace its roots to the first bus boycotts in Montgomery Alabama. It's first president was Martin Luther King Jr. It was one of the first major organizations to take prominance in the civil rights activism of the 1950's.
Hint: It's acronym is SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Mike Garrett, Ernie Davis, and Billy Simms all received this award given to outstanding players in college footbal.
Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
This venue first opened its doors in 1914 as "Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater" and was designed by George Keister in the neo-Classical style.
In 1934 it changed ownership and was renamed ______ and became one of the paramount theaters showcasing black talent in New York City.
In 1976 he became the first African-American justice appointed to the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
After being cut from his high school basketball team, this young man went on to win 6 NBA championships.
Michael Jordan
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned by the government of this state - only to then rule a its president from 1994-1999.
South Africa
This African American actor, film producer, and martial artist has starred in more than 45 movies and 7 TV series, including Boiling Point in 1993 and The Bernie Mac Show in 2002. One of his least known roles is that of a drag queen in "Too Wong Foo."
Wesley Snipes
Writer and anthropologist was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance and author of the masterwork 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'
Zora Neale Hurston
What group of students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas. They later attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.?
In 1989, this man became the first and only athlete to make All-Star teams in the NFL and Major League Baseball in the same season
Bo Jackson
It is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and with over 100million speakers total, it is the most widely spoken language on the continent of Africa.
This actress developed her career in various British t.v. series including Chasing Shadows, the Doctor Who episode "Face the Raven" and the Black Mirror episode "Black Museum".
Her most recent major role was as Shuri in the major motion picture Black Panther
Letitia Wright
He is known today as having been a master of the early Delta Blues style of guitar playing. He died at the young age of 27 in the year 1938. Legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads which gave him his incredible guitar talent. Rock musician Eric Clapton has called him "the most important blues singer that ever lived."
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown vs. Board of Education
Considered one of the greatest WNBA players of all-time, she was one of the league's first major faces who became the first player to dunk during a WNBA game.
Lisa Leslie
This is the capital, and largest city, of Ethiopia. It is also the home city of the African Union (AU) which was created May 26, 2001.
Addis Ababa
This publication was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois and is one of the oldest continuing pulbications in the world. It is a quarterly journal focusing on discourses in civil rights, history and culture through the lens of the experiences of African Americans and other communities of color.
What landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. (1967)
Loving v. Virginia