Black Inventors
This former NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory engineer invented a widely known toy that works especially well in the summer. (Bonus if you guess the toy).
Who is Lonnie Johnson, the super soaker.
Helped slaves escape plantations to freedom around the country and founded an underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman.
Gonna do a wave check, better make sure you have this on your hair before then.
The Home Owner's Loan Association graded all neighborhoods in America under FDR's direction in the 1930s-1950s. They separated neighborhoods with 1/4 black population with a "D" dangerous rating with a colored line.
What is red lineing?
This collection of people was reduced to "passive" and "aloof" accomplices to slavery in media, when they were often cited as "more brutal" than their counterparts.
Who are white woman
Chef who accidentally made the potato chip
Who is George Speck (Crum)
This neurosurgeon perfomed the first successful separation of twins after 22-hours of surgery.
Who is Ben Carson.
Everyone wants to float like Mike, shoot like Curry, and yell Kobe when facing a contested shot in this sport.
What is basketball.
In the 1960s, the FBI was given permission to follow, tap, arrest, and execute these three Civil Rights Activists.
Who is Fred Hampton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom X.
Shooting guns, big trucks, not listenting to the government, historically being poor, and wanting to live life, are traits this community shares with black people
Who are rednecks.
All good mechanical engineers should know who invented refreigeration technology
Who is Frederick McKinley Jones
During the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclimation freed the slaves in all Confederate States. But these Union States still had slaves.
What are Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Technically West Virginia.
Never crease the shoes, always dap up, bring seasoned food, and be "valid" if you want to come to this function.
What is the cookout
600 men were recruited for a study of long term affects of syphillus forom the 1930s - 1972. None had consented or were given an antidote before or after the study.
What is the Tuskegee Syphillus Study
Eating food of this cooking method with a fork and knife to not get dirty or sticky.
What is BBQ
Are you lost? Use GPS to figure out where you are.
Who is Gladys West
What is 6 million black americans
This show created by the Wayne's brothers was a response to SNL being "white" and "politically correct".
What is In Living Color
She was dying of cervical cancer when her cells were taken without consent and used for future testing. Much of which benefited the world but her name was buried by John's Hopkins.
Who is Henrietta Lacks.
This microagression when seeing a black person walking towards you in a dark hoodie.
What is clutching my purse/corssing the street
This film credits the hard unsung work of countless women who were housed in the "colored" section of NASA research facilities. Bonus points for names if you know them.
What is Hidden Figures.
Mary Jackson (first black women to recieve a PhD from MIT), Kathrine Shepared (calculated Glen and Shepard's orbits), Dorothy Vaught (helped pioneer fortran), Christine Darden (hypersonic flight), Valerie Thomas (3D visuals/3D movies), with many more.
Juneteenth celebrates(ed) the end of salvery by the enforcement of the Emancipation proclomation in 1865, but slavery did not end in Union States until the 15th amendment, which was signed on this date.
What is Feburary 3rd, 1870.
This show was made by a political cartoonist as his way of depicting the five archatypes of black americans that exist in America with popular references at the time.
What is the Boondocks.
Dubbed "Black Wall Street", this district in Tusla Oklahoma was the cite of the worst race massacure in U.S. history, which saw white terrorists have support form the Oklahoma national gaurd and biplanes firebombing the streets across two days in 1921.
What is the Tusla race massacure
The word invented, and a favorite among white people at a get together, especially if alcohol is involved which starts with the letter "n"
What is networking.