Local History
This Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist played with with Dizzy Gillespie and invented the musical style called bop or bebop.
Who is Charlie Parker?
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He 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.
Who is George Washington Carver?
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
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.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Who pitched for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues World Series championship in 1942?
Who is Satchel Paige?
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
She was a NASA mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S.-manned spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
What place in Wyandotte County, KS was a free state port-of-entry for people escaping slavery?
What is Quindaro?
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."?
Who is Maya Angelou?
Humphrey H. Reynolds' window ventilator invention made passengers more comfortable in what 19th-century mode of transportation?
What are trains?
At just six years old, she became the first black student to desegregate a public school in the South in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
What female writer and speaker was a reporter and eventually managing editor of The Kansas City Call newspaper?
Who is Lucile Bluford?
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The first African-American woman in space
Who is Mae Jemison?
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This major American poety wrote about Northern ghetto life and was poety laureate of Illinois for 16 years.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
This man was born into slavery, but eventually became a horse trainer, founder of the American Royal Horse Show, and inventor of a horse bit that was gentler for training horses.
Who was Tom Bass?
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman?
She was one of the pioneers of chemotherapy and medical oncology. Her research led to one of the first anti-cancer drugs.
Who is Jane Cooke Wright?
She was a voting rights activist and women’s rights activist who worked to abolish racially-biased voting requirements. Hamer also served as the Vice Chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, worked alongside the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and played an integral role in the fight for equal education for African-Americans.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
The iconic cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by this 1920s jazz singer in Harlem, known as "Baby Esther."
Who is Esther Jones?