College civil rights organization, SNCC stood for what? Bonus points to the team who can name the founder.
What is Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee? (Ella Baker)
100
Chicago teen who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955, a tragedy that helped spur the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmitt Till?
100
Known as "The Father of the Peanut Industry", this man not discovered many uses for peanuts, but also soybeans and other plants. Fun Fact: Was friends with Henry Ford inspiring the naming of the T-model assembly line as the manufacturing "plant".
Who is George Washington Carver
100
Madame C.J. Walker, the first black american woman to be a self-made millionaire, invented this product.
What is hair relaxer?
100
Halle Berry became the first African American woman to win an Oscar for a leading role in this movie.
What is Monster's Ball?
200
In 1960, four African American college students sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in this city in protest to segregated restaurants.
What is Greensboro, North Carolina?
200
In what state did Nat Turner lead the largest slave rebellion in history (1831)?
What is Virginia?
200
The "Big Ben" in London gets its name from this farmer, mathematician, astronomer, author, and most notably inventor of the clock.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
200
Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur were integral in the success of this political party?
What is the Black Panther Party?
200
This record company was founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit and featured many prominent acts such as The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.
What is Motown Records?
300
The nickname given to the civil rights activists (many young college students) who rode interstate buses into the segregated South in 1961.
Who are Freedom Riders?
300
This event was the catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
What is the Rodney King scandal?
300
American physician, surgeon and medical researcher known as the inventor of the blood bank.
Who is Charles Drew?
300
This writer was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance and is the author of the iconic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who Zora Neale Hurston?
300
This athlete, who could float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, was the first to win the world heavyweight championship three times. Bonus points to the team who can give his birth name.
Who is Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)?
400
Under the leadership of Booker T. Washington this school sought to teach technical skills and had a thriving work-study program. It is the first black college to be considered a Registered National Historic Landmark and the only to be declared a National Historic Site.
What is Tuskegee University?
400
What specific issue did civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, crusade against?
What is lynching?
400
Lonnie Johnson invented this toy in 1989, which became a "hit" in households across America. If you're not careful, you might find yourself soaked!
What is the "SuperSoaker"?
400
American physician and NASA astronaut known for being the first black woman to travel in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
400
In the 1968 Summer Olympics, athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated this political act during the medal ceremony.
What is the black power salute?
500
HBCU's gave teaching jobs to people of this persecuted minority in the 1930s.
Who are European Jews?
500
This town was destroyed by whites and subsequently abandoned in 1923 as a result of a white woman claiming a black man had raped her.
What is Rosewood, Florida?
500
This invention by Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor and draftsmen, is often mis-attributed to Thomas Edison.
What is the light bulb?
500
The first and only black woman to serve as a U.S. senator to date. Bonus points to the team that can give the year she was elected.
Who is Carol Mosely-Braun? (1992)
500
"Rapper's Delight" (1979) is a single by this group which popularized hip-hop in the United States. Bonus points to the team that can rap the opening verse from memory.