Black American
What colors are in the Black American heritage flag?
What is black, red, gold.
This early 20th-century movement encouraged people of African descent in the Americas to return to Africa and was led by Marcus Garvey.
What is the Back-to-Africa Movement?
I Have a Dream” was delivered during this 1963 march in Washington, D.C.
What is the March on Washington?
This man became the first Black president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This inventor improved the traffic light by adding a third signal and also created the gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Who is known as the Father of Black History in the U.S.?
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This historic island off the coast of Senegal was a major center of the Atlantic slave trade.
What is Gorée Island?
Still I Rise” is a famous poem by this American poet.
Who is Maya Angelou?
She was the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This inventor developed over 300 uses for peanuts and improved agricultural methods in the South.
Who is George Washington Carver?
What year was the black American heritage flag created?
1967
Black represents pride and pigmentation and race
Red reminds us of the rich blood black [people] have shed for freedom, equality, justice and human dignity throughout the world
Gold represents intellect, prosperity, and peace.
This West African country was formerly known as the Gold Coast.
What is Ghana?
"Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud") This artist is known as the Godfather of Soul
Who is James Brown?
What year did America have its 1st black judge (Wentworth Cheswill)?
When was 1768 in New Hampshire?
This woman invented a home security system in 1966 that later influenced modern surveillance technology.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown?
Who was the self taught scientist & mathematician that layed out the architectural surveys for the designing of Washington, DC?
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
This powerful West African empire was ruled by Mansa Musa in the 14th century.
What is the Mali Empire?
“The Ballot or the Bullet” speech was delivered by this civil rights leader.
Who is Malcolm X?
At just 15 years old she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama before the official bus boycott began with Rosa Parks' action.
Who is Claudette Colvin, she is famously quoted as saying "“I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other—saying, ‘Sit down girl!’ I was glued to my seat,”
This inventor patented an improved ironing board in 1892 that was better suited for women’s garments.
Who is Sarah Boone?
This writer authored Beloved and became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This inaugural African President graduated from HBCU Lincoln University where he crossed the burning sands to join the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc in 1942.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This South African leader said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Who is Nelson Mandela?
What's the name of the Negro National Anthem?
What is Lift every voice and sing?
This inventor received a patent in 1872 for improvements to the elevator, making skyscrapers safer.
Who is Alexander Miles?