Famous Years
Entrainment
Organizations
Education
Literature
100

 EBONY PUBLISHED THEIR FIRST ISSUE IN?

1945

100

COOL RUNNINGS IS A MOVIE ABOUT A BOBSLED TEAM FROM THIS ISLAND

JAMAICA

100

EDGAR NIXON WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP IN THIS STATE

ALABAMA

100

BEFORE BLACK HISTORY MONTH CARTER G WOODSON CREATED

NEGRO HISTORY WEEK

100

ALEX HALEY WROTE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF

MALCOLM X 

200

WHAT YEAR DID THE FIRST MILLION MAN MARCH OCCURRED? 

1995

200

WILL SMITH PORTRAYED THIS HOMELESS MAN TURNED BROKERAGE FIRM OWNER IN "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"

WILL SMITH

200

WHAT DOES S.N.C.C STAND FOR?

STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE

200

FIRST BLACK PROFESSOR AT A PREDOMINATELY WHITE COLLEGE

CHARLES REASON

200

MAYA ANGELOU'S BRITH NAME

MARGUERITE ANNIE JOHNSON

300

DETROIT HAD A MAJOR ROIT IN

1967

300

SYNCHRONIZED MOVEMENT OF HIGH STEPS CLAPPING, ARM CROSSING AND SHOULDER TAPPING WITH CHANTING

STEPPING 

300

WHAT PRESIDENTIAL AWARD WAS GIVEN TO WHITNEY YOUNG IN 1968?

MEDAL OF FREEDOM

300

RICHARD THEODORE GREENER IS THE FIRST BLACK FROM WHAT UNIVERSITY

HARVARD 

300

LEADER IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE FREQUENTLY NOTED FOR HIS INNOVATIVE JAZZ POETRY

LANGSTION HUGHES

400

FRANCE LOST CONTROL OF HAITI IN WHAT YEAR?

1804

400

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM COMPANY

LINCOLN MOTION PICTURE COMPANY

400

ROY WILKINS WAS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WHAT GROUP FROM1955 TO 1977

NAACP

400

MARJORIE JOYNER RECEIVED HER BACHELORS FROM THIS COLLEGE AT 77 YEARS OLD


BETHUNE-COOKMAN

400

THE EARLIEST UNPUBLISHED NOVEL WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN SLAVE

THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE

500

THIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM LOCATED IN VIRGINIA CLOSED ITS DOOR IN OPPOSITION TO INTEGRATION IN WHAT YEAR?

1959

500

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO RECEIVE AN OSCAR FOR BEST ACTOR

SIDNEY POITIER



500

WHO WAS MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS?

FIRST FEMALE CHAIRPERSON OF THE NAACP

500

SAINT ELMO BRADY IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO RECEIVE A PHD IN

CHEMISTRY

500

GEORGE HERRIMAN WAS THE  FIRST BLACK TO ACHIEVE FAME AS A

SYNDICATE CARTOONIST