This Harlem theatre debuted legends such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
What is the Apollo Theatre?
100
This Presidential Proclamation/Executive Order paved the road towards the total abolition of slavery in the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Revolutionary during the early 1600s for its portrayal of a black protagonist, who is the lead character of this titular Shakespearean play?
Who is Othello?
100
He invented peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
100
He was the first athlete to attain over 1 billion dollars.
Who is Tiger Woods?
200
This famous blues musician is considered the “Father of Chicago Blues”.
Who is Muddy Waters?
200
Martin Luther King penned this famous open letter wherein he writes, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.
What is the Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
200
This poet penned “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
Former host of NOVA’s ScienceNow and supposed killer of the planet Pluto, this man is part scientist, part meme.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
200
Track & Field legend Jesse Owens played in the Olympics in this year and this city.
What are the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
300
This spiritual features the lyrics, “When Israel was in Egypt's land: Let my people go”.
What is Go Down Moses?
300
This president signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Written by a white abolitionist, this famous novel paved the path towards abolishing slavery, while also enforcing and creating negative stereotypes around African Americans.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Recently featured in “Hidden Figures”, these three Nasa scientists helped get the first humans on the moon. (First names are fair game!)
Who are Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson?
300
She became the first major African-American woman in Tennis, invited to play at Wimbledon in 1951.
Who is Althea Gibson?
400
Considered the “mother” of hip-hop, this figure was the founder of Sugar Hill Records and helped the rap group The Sugarhill Gang launch hip-hop into its first instance of commercial success.
Who is Sylvia Robinson?
400
Malcom X had a falling out with this individual, which compelled him to leave the Nation of Islam.
Who is Elijah Muhammad?
400
This poetic genre was birthed in Harlem and championed by the likes of Langston Hughes and Jayna Cortez.
What is Jazz Poetry?
400
She was the first African American woman to travel to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
400
Jackie Robinson, who began the end racial segregation in Major League Baseball, played for this MLB team.
What are The Brooklyn Dodgers?
500
This 50s electric blues guitarist was cited by musicologist Robert Palmer to be the creator of the powerchord.
Who is Willie Johnson?
500
Before Rosa Parks, this teenager refused to give up her bus seat as an act of civil disobedience.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
500
This famous essayist and scholar challenged the then unappreciated role of blacks during Reconstruction in his essay “Black Reconstruction in America”.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
500
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams is famous for being among the first to perform this successful surgical procedure.
What is open heart surgery?
500
This figure became the first African-American grandmaster of international Chess.