What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown vs Board of Education
100
Name the film:
In 1960s Mississippi, a southern society girl decides to interview black women who spent their lives taking care of prominent white families.
What is The Help?
100
Nicknamed Satchmo and a jazz trumpeter, he was one of the most influential figures in jazz music.
What is Louis Armstrong
100
Which show portrayed twin sisters that first meet 14 years after birth?
What is Sister, Sister
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
What is Muhammad Ali
200
Which Amendment of the US Constitution abolished slavery?
What is 13th Amendment
200
Name the film:
This film portrays social problems in the inner city of Los Angeles in the form of the story of three friends growing up together. Starring Lawrence Fishburne
What is Boys N the Hood
200
Name the Artist:
This artist wrote a song that became the official state song of Georgia in 1979.
What is Ray Charles
200
Which show describes Chris Rock's upbringing in Brooklyn?
What is Everybody Hates Chris
200
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
What is George Washington Carver
300
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
What is Colin Powell?
300
Who was the first african-american male to win an academy award for best actor?
What is Sidney Poitier
300
In 2006, which african-american female was named the most awarded female artist of all time by Guiness World Records.
What is Whitney Houston
300
A young man from West Philadelphia goes to live with his family in Beverly Hills
What is Fresh Prince of Bel Air
300
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
What is Maya Angelou
400
In what year was black history month first observed in the US?
What is 1976
400
Name the film:
This musical was adapted for George's Bizet's opera for an african-american cast. It tells the tale of soldier who falls for a beautiful factory worker.
What is Carmen Jones
400
Who was the first african-american female to win a grammy award?
What is Ella Fitzgerald?
400
This sketch comedy show helped to launch the careers of Jim Carey and Jamie Foxx.
What is In Living Color
400
Who was the first female billionaire in 2003?
What is Oprah Winfrey?
500
In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
What is 1619
500
Name the film: A white prison guard falls in love with a black widow of a man that he has just executed. As a result, he is forced to come to terms with his beliefs concerning race.
What is A Monster's Ball
500
The leader of The Supremes
What is Diana Ross
500
Guess the show from these three clues: OPA, politics, Rhimes
What is Scandal
500
The first interracial kiss was seen on what television show?