Black Artistry
The Houston native is a former member of Destiny’s Child known for dominating the music industry with consistent vocals, visuals, dance, and substance. (Key albums include Homecoming, I Am… Sasha Fierce, Lemonade)
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Inventor and patentee of the traffic light in 1923
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Known for her academia in black history and social justice and political activism, this person is known for her work in the communist party and black panther party. Working mostly to fight against prison systems. Hint: shes featured in the movie the black power mixtape)
Who is Angela davis?
Who is Harriet Tubman
A Black transgender woman and activist most known for her involvement with the Stonewall Inn riots — a 1969 uprising against police brutality by New York City's LGBTQ community.The actual identity of who threw the first brick is still debatable, but some people credit this individual as the person who may have been the one to do it.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson
The name of the outpouring of Black nationalist music, visual art, poetry, and writing from circa 1965-1975? (Prominent figures include Gil Scot-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin, Thelonius Monk).
What is the Black Arts Movement?
The woman credited as the first female millionaire in America, earning a fortune with the first hair products ever targeted towards African-American women?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The most prominent leader in the journey to Haiti’s independence in their revolution?
Who is Toussaint L’Overtrure
Known for her amazing voice and contributions to jazz, blues, folk, gospel, and pop, she was also a civil rights activist. She attended Juilliard and made her debut singing little girl blue.
Who is nina simone
He organized the 1963 March on Washington and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2013 for his activism. an LGBTQ and civil rights activist best known for being a key adviser to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is bayard rustin
The Neo-Expressionist artist who rose to fame on the early nineties NYC visual arts scene for the technical boldness and skill, and his criticism of colonialism and capitalism in his art.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
The first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States.
Who is Sarah E. Goode?
A prominent figure in the literary world, an author of three famous books between 1934-1939, and an anthropologist that explored black folklore more than anything. (hint: one of the famous books include: Mules and men)
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Institute for Girls and was also known as a political activist. She went on to found the National Council of Negro Women, and worked in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, where she served as the informal "race leader at large." (hint: jess is related to her on her fathers side)
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
One of MLK’s closest advisors and speech writers, and the main organizer of the March on Washington.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
The name of the IC student organization Black Artists United was originally a part of?
What is Black Femmes United? What is UBSU?
The son of a formerly enslaved man from Liberia with a genius knack for astronomy, math, and clock making. He petitioned George Washington to assist in the planning of the United States capital and was accepted, using his astronomical prowess to plan many of the existing streets and corners of Washington DC. His letter to Thomas Jefferson is one of the most important historical documents that shows consistent moral and ethical objection to slavery (contradicting the American mythos that everyone uncritically accepted slavery as a part of antebellum life).
Who is Benjamin Bannekar?
The Philadelphia based Black liberation group characterized by their values of anti capitalism, animal rights, and environmental preservation. This group was the target and victim of a 1985 bombing and subsequent fire carried out by the Philadelphia police department.
What is MOVE?
An American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights
Who is Katherine Johnson
A formerly enslaved person who was the first to use the word drag queen, and invented the country’s first drag balls and ballrooms in the 1880s.
Who is William Dorsey Swann?
The 1943 Hollywood movie musical in which the Nicolas Brothers performed their famous tap routine where they jumped into splits over each other down a flight of stairs.
What is Stormy Weather?
Known as “Black Edison”, this prolific inventor had over 60 patents to his name, and made leaps and bounds in the streamlining of the telegraph and public trains.
Who is Granville T Woods? Who is Granville T Woods?
The woman who authentically protested segregated public busing in Montgomery AL by refusing her seat to a white man months before Rosa Parks. The NAACP chose Rosa Parks to be the face of the 1955-56 bus boycott because they deemed this young woman to be too dark, too young, and too pregnant to be sympathetic to white audiences.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
overcame racial bias to become the first African-American tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament — the French Championships in 1956. She went on to win four more singles Grand Slams and six doubles titles. Venus and Serena Williams, among many other women players, Black and otherwise, cite her as an inspiration.
Who is Aletha Gibson
He was elected mayor of Palm Springs, California in 2003, he made history by becoming the first openly gay African American man elected mayor of an American city. In December 2017, he became America's first all-LGBTQ city council.
Who is ron oden