AFRICA
In regard to size, how does Africa rank among the seven continents?
It is the second largest
This was the poet who wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “I Too”.
Langston Hughes
This event, called a boycott, was launched in 1955 after one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in a southern city in the u.s.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
This youth movement started right after the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Black Lives Matter
Name 3 African Nations.
answers may vary
What is the Egyptians' alphabet that means "sacred carvings"?
Hieroglyphics
She is the first African American woman author to write a nonfiction best seller, I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing and the first Black woman to speak at a presidential inauguration (Bill Clinton 1993).
Maya Angelou
This event protesting for civil rights was held in Washington DC on August 28, 1963.
March on Washington
In February 1960, four Black students from North Carolina A&T State University sat at a “whites only” Woolworth’s lunch counter and refused to leave. What did this protest become known as?
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Name the colors of the African Liberation Flag and their meanings.
RED-bloodshed through struggle, BLACK-people, GREEN-land, gold-resources
What river flows north from the highlands of East Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and is the largest river in Africa?
The Nile River
What American city is called the birthplace of jazz?
New Orleans, Louisiana
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, beginning slavery in the u.s. What year did this occur?
1619
What does SNCC stand for?
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Which laws in practice, mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
Jim Crow Laws
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This structure is called one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World and was built in Kemet (Egypt?)
The Great Pyramid
This person was "whiteballed" out the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of the police killings of unarmed Africans throughout the country.
Colin Kaepernick
This event took place on an island from 1791-1804. Led by Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines; it was the only slave uprising to lead to complete independence and the founding of a free territory.
The Haitian Revolution
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This organization was founded in Oakland, California on October 15,1966 by two young college students Huey Newton (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. 1936). What is the name of this Organization?
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
This person was a physician known as the "father of medicine" and the chief architect of the step pyramid. His name means 'he who comes in peace". Who is he?
Imhotep
This statue in Kemet (Egypt) resembles the body of a lion with the face of a person.
The Sphinx
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This era during the 1920s represented one of the greatest periods of creative activity among African American Artists. Many Black writers lived in New York and wrote a substantial amount of literature.
The Harlem Renaissance
On August 11, 1973 in the Bronx, NY, a "Back To School" party was hosted by Cindy Campbell and DJ'd by her brother Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell. It is widely considered the "birth" of what cultural phenomenon?
Hip Hop
In South Africa on June 16, 1976, between 10,000 and 20,000 students left their schools and rallied in protest. The protesters were met by violence by police, and hundreds of deaths resulted. This event is commonly known as......
The Soweto Uprising
Name 3 African female freedom fighters.
answers may vary