Arts - Music/Dance/Movies
Hip-Hop music genre - city of origin
New York City (Brooklyn, Bronx, Harlem)
Nick name of the Black Army regiments throughout history, given to them by the American Indian during the American/Indian war. It's also the name of an very large animal (name begins with "B").
Buffalo Soldiers (1866)
Name given to civil rights activists who road interstate buses to the segregated South to protest unequal and oppressive treatment of Blacks during 1960's.
Freedom Riders
The name of the book and movie (true story) of the same name, about Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race in the 1960's, enabling astronaut John Glenn to be the 1st person in the world to orbit the earth (1962.
Hidden Figures!
Approximate number of enslaved African deaths related to the Middle Passage (transatlantic slave trade) - 500K, 2 million, 5 million, 6 million?
Estimates are between 4 - 6 million men, women, and children inclusive of capture, transport, and post transport.
First Black female principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland (2015). ABT founded in 1939.
Famous Quotes: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"
Colin Powell - First Black Secretary of State. Served in the George W. Bush administration (2001 - 2005).
Name of the holiday recognizing the official end of slavery in Texas in June 1865.
Juneteenth - Emancipation Proclamation was issued in Sept 1862 declaring all enslaved African people free from slavery. Enslaved Africans in Texas weren't notified until June 1865. Vermont was the first state to ban slavery (1777).
Name of the study conducted by the US Public Health Service and Centers for Disease Control, of untreated Syphilis in ~400 black men from 1932 - 1972.
Tuskegee Experiment - Patients with Syphilis were told they were getting a treatment for bad blood, and unaware they were receiving no treatment. Even when treatment was readily available, it was not given to them.
In August 1965 this Bill was signed into law allowing Blacks the right to vote.
Voting rights Act
First Black Actor or Actress to win Academy Award for best actor/actress!
Sidney Poitier (1963) - Only 6 black actors/actress have won since the academy's inception in 1923. The 2nd & 3rd came in 2002 - Denzel Washington and Halle Berry who is to this day the only Black woman recognized.
This name of a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) was also in the name of the 1st all black US air force fighter squadron of World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen (~1007 pilots)! (Tuskegee Air field - Alabama). Nick named "Red Tails" because the tails of their planes were painted red.
Name of the first and only Black President of the United States.
Barak Obama along with his wife, Michelle, became the first Black President and First Lady of the US in 2009, and served 2 terms in office thru 2017.
A device that stops you in your "tracks" while driving.
Traffic Light (1923). Garret Morgan, a black inventor and entrepreneur invented it, and the Gas Mask (1914).
Transformed the field of blood transfusions and developed large scale blood banks in World War II.
Dr. Charles Drew - Professor, Medical Research, Chief Surgeon at Howard University (HBCU).