Activism
In this type of protest, civil rights leaders would ask the African-American community to avoid or to not pay money to a business that discriminates against African-Americans.
What is a boycott?
Who is (are) the author(s) of the autobiography of Malcolm X?
Who are Malcolm X and Alex Haley?
Name the famous botanist who was born into slavery in the years of the 1860s and became an inventor who discovered more than 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Name the first African-American & Asian-American woman to be the Vice President of the United States of America.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Name the NBA basketball star who is the all-time leading scorer in NBA history and ranks fourth in career assists.
Who is LeBron James?
The NAACP is an organization that raised money for fighting unjust laws in Supreme Court cases. What do the letters in 'NAACP' abbreviation stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
Who was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Who is Toni Morrison?
Name the first African-American woman to travel into space.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
In April 2022, this lawyer, an African-American woman, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become one of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?
The most award-winning American in the sport of gymnastics is an African-American woman who is tied for the most Olympic medals in gymnastics for an American.
Who is Simone Biles?
In what city in the United States did this group of nine African-American students become the first to integrate their school after U.S. President Eisenhower called out national guard troops to enforce a court decision?
Where is Little Rock, Arkansas?
Give the famous nickname for an artist born 'Edward Kennedy' who led an orchestra at New York’s famous Cotton Club in Harlem.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Name this woman who was depicted in the film and book 'Hidden Figures' for her important role in the early days of the U.S. Space Program at NASA?
Who is Katherine Johnson?
In 1968, this New York politician became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
Who is Shirley A. Chisholm?
Name the African-American woman star who accomplished a career Golden Slam in tennis in both singles matches and (with her sister) in doubles tennis.
Who is Serena Williams?
What is the name of this member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity who, during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' Speech?
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Fifty years ago in 1970s in The Bronx, New York, what music genre was founded by African American communities?
What is Hip Hop?
This member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was the inventor of the gas mask, and the first electric traffic light signal.
Who is Garrett A. Morgan?
Name the famous lawyer who is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and won 29 out of 32 major civil rights lawsuit cases. He served as the very first African-American on the Supreme Court from 1967-1991?
Who is Justice Thurgood Marshall?
In the year 2010, this famous NBA basketball star became the first African-American to be a majority owner of an NBA team when he purchased the Charlotte Hornets.
Who is Michael Jordan?
To what religious organization did Malcolm X belong before forming his own organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
What is the Nation of Islam?
Name the African-American woman who became the highest-paid television entertainer, and the first Black Woman BILLIONAIRE through work that began with a show that is named after herself.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Name the first African-American person to serve as the top medical advisor, or Surgeon General of the United States from 1993-1994.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders?
This member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia and went on to serve as the first African-American to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.
Who is Andrew Young?
Name the American track and field athlete, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity member, who achieved fame in the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany by winning four Gold Medals.
Who is Jesse Owens?