Black History Facts
Which holiday supports the emancipation of enslaved African Americans?
What is Juneteenth
Michael Jackson's best record of all time (statistically).
What is Billie Jean
Michael Jackson is most known for this dance.
What is the Moonwalk
Who was the first black mayor of Chicago?
Who is Harold Lee Washington
George Crum was working as a chef at a resort in New York. A customer sent his dish of french fries back to the kitchen, claiming that they weren’t good. In an irritated fit, Crum created these as a joke to the customer.
What is a Potato Chip
Who started Black History Month?
Who is Carter J. Woodson
This person was a solo performer who took the 1980s by storm. She changed the way the rock and roll industry and fans viewed African-American female performers.
Who is Tina Turner
The 2007 viral dance that took the internet by storm.
What is Crank That Soulja Boy
What year did Chicago racial tension, concentrated on the South Side, particularly exacerbated by the pressure for adequate housing happen?
What is 1919
This person was the first Black person in Cleveland, Ohio, to own a car. After he witnessed a severe car accident at an intersection in the city, he expanded on the current traffic light by adding a “yield” component, warning oncoming drivers of an impending stop.
Who is Garrett Morgan
How long did BHM last when it was originated?
What is a week
This persons song says,
"It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good''
Who is Nina Simone
A highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s.
What is Voguing
Who is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicago"?
Who is Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Alexander Miles took out a patent in 1887 for a mechanism that automatically opens and closes to what innovation?
What are elevator shaft doors
When did the US recognize Black History Month?
What is 1976
This group was responsible for releasing some of Motown’s first big hits, including “Shop Around” and “You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me.”
Who is Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
The MC with shinny pants committed their career to making this dance popular.
What is Hammertime
What monument celebrates the historic movement with a striking statue near Chicago’s southern lakefront?
What is the Monument to the Great Migration
Summer just wouldn’t be the same without Lonnie Johnson’s invention. Johnson was an Aerospace Engineer for NASA who’ happened to invent this popular children’s toy.
What is a SUPER Soaker
This group of leaders made BHM most popular.
What is Civil Rights Leaders
Rosa Parks, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, John Lewis, Barbara Jordan, Marcus Garvey, and Martin Luther King Jr.
This person took her music to new heights, by putting her career on the line with “Strange Fruit” in 1939. The song was an outcry against the lynching of African Americans that would become an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Billie Holiday
An athletic style of street dance originating from the African American communities in the United States. It is even now earmarked as a sport.
What is Break-Dancing
What local college did Carter G. Woodson, the father of African American History, gain his Master's degree?
What is University of Chicago
William Dorsey Swann is highly regarded as the first _________ in the US.
What is a drag queen