NAACP History
In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Who was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball, 2002)
“CMDGF
You won’t get what you want unless you speak up.
What Pan-African flag colors (red, black, and green) symbolize the struggle for liberation?
Red for the blood, black for the people, green for the land.
What NBA player is known as “His Airness” and is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time?
Michael Jordan.
What is the NAACP’s official magazine, founded in 1910?
The Crisis
What TV show was set in Hillman College, a fictional HBCU
A Different World
WHDI
Wont he do it
What African American journalist and activist co-founded the NAACP after her fearless reporting on lynching?
Ida B. Wells.
In 2020, what gymnast became the most decorated in World Championship history?
Simone Biles.
What landmark Supreme Court case, backed by the NAACP, ended school segregation in 1954?
Brown v. Board of Education
In Coming to America, Eddie Murphy’s character Prince Akeem is from what fictional African country?
Zamunda
The proverb “When you educate a man, you educate an individual; when you educate a woman, you educate a nation” reflects what long-held African value?
The importance of community and collective growth.
What Black leader delivered the speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in 1852?
Frederick Douglass.
What tennis star became the first Black man to win Wimbledon in 1975?
Arthur Ashe.
: Who was the first African American executive secretary of the NAACP?
Weldon Johnson
What Spike Lee film popularized the phrase “Fight the Power”?
Do the Right Thing
What popular saying means celebrating your culture unapologetically, often associated with the Black Power movement?
Black and Proud.”
Who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957?
Ralph Abernathy.
: Lonnie Johnson, a Black engineer, is best known for inventing what popular toy?
The Super Soaker.
Which NAACP lawyer later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
In the movie Friday, what line does Smokey famously say about getting fired?
“You got fired on your day off!”
The phrase “Each one, teach one” originated during what period of U.S. history?
Slavery, when enslaved Africans secretly taught each other to read.
The historically Black newspaper The Chicago Defender played a major role in encouraging what migration of Black Americans in the 20th century?
The Great Migration.
Dr. Charles Drew revolutionized medicine by developing large-scale methods for storing what life-saving substance?
Blood (blood plasma/blood banks).