Different Songs, Different Artists, Same Song Title!
Female Freedom Riders
Obama's Celebrity Friends
100
He is well-known for performing with Art Garfunkel and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Who is Paul Simon?
100
Best know for his biggest hit, "Born in the USA," this artist released "We shall Overcome" as a tribute to Pete Seeger.
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
100
Quincy Jones and Bob Marley both sang musical tributes to these under-recognized fighters on horseback.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
100
She won her argument before the US Supreme Court that segregation within interstate travel violated the U.S. Constitution.
Who is Irene Morgan?
100
Their Greatest Hits include "Let's Groove", "Reasons" and "Shining Star"
What is "Earth Wind and Fire"
200
This US Senator ran for president in 1988, but finished behind Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and Jesse Jackson.
Who was Paul Simon?
200
In 2007, Parade magazine ranked her the 3rd Most Generous Celebrity. This star of Funny Lady made Richard Nixon's Enemies List.
Who is Barbra Streisand?
200
The Pointer Sisters, Kris Kross and Van Halen all released songs with this same, four-letter, one-syllable, one-verb title.
What is Jump?
200
She was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Who was Diane Nash?
200
He starred in many movies including "Hancock", "I, Robot" and "The Pursuit of Happyness."
Who is Will Smith?
300
At the age of 91, This banjo-playing, lifelong activist wrote a song about the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. He had written many protest songs that became far more famous.
Who was Pete Seeger?
300
This US senator from Vermont admits to being a socialist, and recently announced that he is running for president in 2016. His views are similar to those of the very popular-among-progressives non-candidate senator Elizabeth Warren.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
300
This is the title of 45 different songs, including a song by KISS, a song from the musical Annie, and a song from the musical Bugsy Malone. Hint: The sun will come out...
What is "Tomorrow?"
300
She said, “I was pretty used to being treated the way [white] women are treated in the South, which is with great courtesy but not enormous respect intellectually.”
Who is Margaret Leonard?
300
She remains the world's only Black Female Billionaire, a status she has held for over a decade
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
In the 1970s and 80's, these four ladies sang pop, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock, often exceeding ten words per second in unison and in harmony.
Who are the Pointer Sisters?
400
With Huey Newton, he co-founded the Black Panther Party.
Who is Bobby Seale?
400
Toni Braxton, Shanice, and the Beatles each recorded songs with this title. The Beatles song is by far the most famous. (Hint: All My troubles seemed so far away....)
What is Yesterday?
400
She was pictured on the front page of the May 28, 1963, Washington Post after she participated in a Jackson, Miss., sit-in.
Who is Jean Mulholland?
400
He has written and recorded over 300 songs, and helped to make the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King a national holiday
Who is Stevie Wonder?
500
He is most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men
Who is Patrick Stewart?
500
He organized freedom riders from Southern California, inspired many to become educators, led the fight to reform education finance, and continues to bring joy to many.
Who is Bob Singleton?
500
Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Waylon Jennings and Prince have all recorded songs with this geographical, one-word title. A song in the musical "West Side Story" has the same title.
What is America?
500
Having been arrested in the Freedom Rides with her husband, which few women did, she and her husband now travel the world, inspiring new generations of people to become activists for social justice.
Who is Helen Singleton?
500
He starred in Twelve Years a Slave and numerous other movies. He has helped people in New Orleans to have transitional housing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.