Chart Toppers
This singer's debut album was the first Hip-Hop album to win the Grammy award Album of the Year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in both the individual all-around and team competitions.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
This man researched and promoted the growth of peanuts to replace the decreasing cotton production.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This successful 1984 film starred Prince as a struggling musician.
Purple Rain
The act that President Johnson signed on July 2, 1964 that prohibited any kind of discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This hip hop star was born "Belcalis Almanzar"
Who is Cardi B?
This athlete became the NBA's first unanimous Most Valuable Player.
Who is Steph Curry?
This African-American made millions selling cookies and founded a cookie brand that still exists today.
Who is Wally "Famous" Amos.
This African American pop icon has earned several Guinness World Records, including most Grammy Awards won in a year, best selling album of all time and highest annual earnings ever for a pop star
Who is Michael Jackson?
Started in Oakland, California, this movement initially set forth a doctrine calling for the protection of black neighborhoods from police brutality
What is the Black Panther Party?
The best selling worldwide album of all time.
What is Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982)?
Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were the first Black female and male athletes, respectively, inducted into this sport's International Hall of Fame.
What is Tennis?
The first Black woman to appear on Vogue magazine.
Who is Beverly Johnson?
In the true-life story of Hotel Rwanda, this actor plays Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during the Rwandan genocide.
Who is Don Cheadle?
The organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This alter ego was introduced to the world on her third solo album in 2008.
Who is Sasha Fierce?
This female athlete is considered one of the greatest WNBA players of all-time, and she also was one of the league's first major faces who became the first player to dunk during a WNBA game.
Who is Lisa Leslie
The first Black woman appointed Attorney General.
Who is Loretta Lynch (2015)?
This African American singer, songwriter and actress, was named the most awarded female artist of all time by the Guinness World Records
Who is Whitney Houston?
This court case reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson "separate but equal" ruling, claiming that "Segregation in public education is a denial of the equal protection of the laws."
What is Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka - 1954)
Holds the record for most Billboard number-one albums (for a solo-artist)?
Jay-Z
(13 albums, only surpassed by the Beatles with 19, 4 of which are recent retrospectives)
The year that African Americans first competed in the Olympics.
What is 1904?
George Poage won two bronze medals in Hurdling in St Louis Olympics
The first doctor to successfully perform open heart surgery.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
The subject of a 2017 movie starring Oprah, this person unknowingly donated cancer cells that became the most important cells in medical history.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Founded by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics, this organization gave young African Americans a greater voice in the Civil Rights movement.
What is the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?