Black Entertainers
This beloved actor played T’Challa in Black Panther
What is Chadwick Boseman
This was the Disney Channel show that Zendaya made her acting debut in?
What is Shake It Up.
This Black woman refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is Rosa Parks
this was the year slavery was abolished in the United States?
What is 1865.
What landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation in schools unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
The name of Beyoncé’s group before her solo career?
What is Destiny’s Child.
1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teenager from West Philadelphia?
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
He was the first Black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
The year Barack Obama won his first presidential election?
What is 2008.
a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that the laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Hint: Lovers State
What is Loving v. Virginia
This person wrote the poem “Still I Rise”?
What is Maya Angelou.
The first historically black college (HBCU) in America?
What is Cheyney University
She starred as Annalise Keating in How To Get Away With Murder?
What is Viola Davis
When did slavery start and when did it end?
What is 1619-1865
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation in 1896, under the pretense “separate but equal”?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
This famous Black musician is known for the song “What a Wonderful World”?
What is Louis Armstrong.
What book by Alex Haley tells the story of his ancestors, starting with Kunta Kinte?
What is Roots.
This person is known as the “Queen of Soul"
What is Aretha Franklin.
In response to the very first rebellion, this law was passed which further restricted the "rights" of enslaved people forbidding them from growing their own food and learning to write.
What is the Negro Act of 1740
The state law that required only white jurors was struck down, allowing people the right to a jury of their peers. All because of this Supreme Court case
What is Strauder v. West Virginia
Which artist performed Let’s Get It On (1973)
What is Marvin Gaye.
This movie features the famous line “Bye, Felicia”?
What is Friday.
Who was the first Black billionaire in the U.S.?
What is Robert L. Johnson
The name of the ship that brought enslaved Africans to Virginia was the White Lion. Which year did they arrive?
What is 1619.
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford.