Early American History
This American sailor was regarded as the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Crispus Attucks
This former enslaved woman, is known for her contributions in freeing enslaved Blacks, but for her work in the Civil War, she is considered the greatest spy in America
Harriet Tubman
This African American is famous for being the #1 food critic on all social media platforms.
Kieth Lee
Who is the first African American woman to serve on the US Supreme Court?
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Who was known for creating the world's first hair-straightening formula?
Madam C.J. Walker
This is considered the starting point where slavery arrived in Colonial America.
1619
This former enslaved person found their freedom by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, in Confederate-controlled waters into Union water. He later became a civilian sea captain for the Union troops, and politician in South Carolina, where he bought the plantation, he was formerly enslaved.
Robert Smalls
Soul Train was created and hosted by this TV personality?
Don Cornelius
She is the first Black major-party candidate to run for President, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first African American in the Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
This oceanic route carried between 10-12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean over to the Americas by European ships
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Enslaved Blacks used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom?
Cornrows
This Black actor, writer, director, and producer is the first African American to own a major movie studio in the U.S.?
Tyler Perry
Before Rosa Parks, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Claudette Covin
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee University
This film is based on an 1839 slave revolt, where enslaved Africans incurred a violent uprising on a Spanish Schooner, making their captives steer the ship in hopes of making it back home, but deceptively to the U.S. A legal battle ensued, where charges of murder, piracy, and slave ownership were placed on the Africans. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Africans, and they were free from all charges.
Amistad
in 1857, this enslaved man sued his enslaver for freedom because he crossed state lines that happen to be in a Free State, but his freedom was short-lived after a ruling from the Supreme Court Favored the enslaver
Dred Scott
This artist crashed Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' Performance of "Empire State of Mind" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Lil Mama
The acronym, NAACP stands for this?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What organization, in Oakland, implemented the country's first free breakfast in school in 1969?
Black Panther Party
In the mid-1600s, this Black "indentured servant" was brought from Angola to the Colonies, where once he was free from servitude, he was able to purchase land and provide for his family. He has become the basis for many conservatives' views on slavery, where he was involved in the first known court case on the ownership of a Black person.
Anthony Johnson
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry on October 19, 1859.
John Brown
The comedy, Abbott Elementary was created by this African American woman.
Quinta Brunson
"The Hill We Climb" was performed during the 2020 Presidential Inauguration by which author?
Amanda Gorman
What was once called "Negro History Week," this tradition has transformed into what observance?
Black History Month