Food & Cooking
This slow-cooked Southern dish is made from collard greens simmered with smoked meat.
What are collard greens?
This music genre, born from African American communities in the South, influenced jazz, rock, and hip-hop.
What is the blues?
These institutions played a major role in organizing the Civil Rights Movement throughout the South.
What are Black churches?
This gathering often includes family, music, card games, barbecue, and plenty of storytelling.
What is a cookout/family reunion?
This professional basketball team represents North Carolina in the NBA.
Who are the Charlotte Hornets?
This cornbread-like side dish is often served with barbecue and may be sweet or savory.
What is hushpuppies?
This Tennessee city is known as the “Home of the Blues” and for Beale Street.
What is Memphis?
This civil rights leader from Atlanta, Georgia delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This Southern phrase is commonly used to respectfully address elders, as in “Yes ma’am” or “No sir.”
What is showing respect?
This North Carolina city is widely known for its connection to NASCAR racing and motorsports culture.
What is Charlotte?
This soul food dessert made with sweet potatoes is commonly served during holidays.
What is sweet potato pie?
This dance style became popular in Black Southern culture and is often performed at cookouts and reunions in groups.
What is line dancing?
This type of college or university was created primarily to educate African Americans before desegregation.
What is an HBCU (Historically Black College or University)?
This hairstyle tradition involving braids, twists, or locs has deep roots in African and Black Southern culture.
What is natural hair styling?
“This Charlotte HBCU is known for its Golden Bulls athletic teams.”
What is Johnson C. Smith University?
What is a Low Country boil?
This historically Black television show featured performances from Southern soul and R&B artists and aired from Chicago.
What is Soul Train?
This annual celebration on June 19th commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This game involving dominoes is highly competitive at many Southern family gatherings.
What is Spades or Dominoes?
This North Carolina city is home to the famous Black Wall Street district that thrived in the early 1900s.
What is Durham?
We are the descendants of a runaway slave named ..............?
Daniel Curry
Who was Daniel Curry's wife?
Caroline Curry
In what state did the Curry family live?
Georgia
Alolphus Curry, what was his profession?
A Baptist Bishop.
List the Oldest know male and female within the FCR social gathering. ( Find our elders!!!)
Family votes on winner.