Top Teens of America
What is the TTA motto?
What is ”Participation is our foundation as leaders of tomorrow"?
He won four (4) gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany in 1936.
Who was Jesse Owens?
The Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary opened in 1881 and later changed its name to this.
What is Spelman College?
Helped hundreds of slaves flee to the North to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The first African-American to be selected for the exceedingly rigorous training required by the space program's Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1967.
Who was Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.?
Guidelines for TTA behavior for National, Area, and chapter meetings
What is Code of Ethics?
Who won the Ladies World Figure Skating Championship in 1986?
Who is Debi Thomas?
This theological seminary in 1867 changed its name and became the first black school to establish Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Schools.
What is Morehouse College?
The first black U.S. congresswoman.
Who was Barbara Jordan?
The first African American to be honored with a federally-funded statue (1960) to his memory. Who was he?
Who was George Washington Carver?
A shield bearing a crown, a globe, a scholar, a diploma, an open book, a scroll, and a quill and pen.
What is the TTA emblem?
In London, in 1890, boxer George Dixon of Halifax, Nova Scotia, became the first Black man to win a world boxing title. In what weight division did he win this title?
What is the Bantam Weight?
This Philadelphia-born scholar was the first African American to be awarded, in 1907, a Rhodes scholarship, the world's most prestigious grant for advanced study at Oxford University.
Who was Alain Leroy Locke?
An inventor and engineer who invented a device that revolutionized sugar processing.
Who was Norbert Rillieux?
The profession and full name of Howard University's first African- American president?
Who was Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, preacher?
The National Administrative board of directors, which governs the TLOD and (TTA) organization.
What is the Parliamen-Top?
In 1957 she became the first African American tennis player to win both the women's singles and doubles championships at the Wimbledon.
Who was Althea Gibson?
The first African-American Catholic College located in New Orleans, Louisiana.
What is Xaxier University?
He received the Spingarn Medal for his pioneering research in Fertilization and Cell Division. An outstanding research biologist, he devoted a lifetime of study to structure and function of animals function.
Who was Ernest E. Just?
The first African American to head The National Science Foundation.
Who was Dr. Walter E. Massey?
Set of rules for conduct at meetings, which should allow everyone to be heard and make decisions without confusion.
What is Parliamentary Procedure?
In 1974, he broke Babe Ruth's lifetime homerun record.
Who was Hank Aaron?
In 1882, Booker T. Washington founded this college to train African Americans as teachers and train in agriculture and industry
What is Tuskegee Institue?
Invented the folding cabinet bed & first patent obtained by an African- American woman.
Who was Sarah S. Goode?
The first Black during the Civil War to be appointed to a rank higher than sergeant.
Who was Major Martin Robison?