And The Beat Goes On
Louisiana Black History
Director's Cut
Black Innovation
Record Breakers
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During the early 1960's, this genre music reflected the country’s anxiety around social and political issues that were raging across the nation. It combined elements of blues and gospel with a driving bass line and percussive energy. Aretha Franklin is artist within this genre.
What is Soul Music?
100
In 1932, this person was one of the first Black voters registered in Baton Rouge. A avenue and park is named after this person in one of the most prominent Black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge.
Who is Gus Young?
100
This show revolves around the lives, friendships, and romantic relationships of a group of young African-American professionals living in a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York.
What is Living Single?
100
Benjamin Banneker was a naturalist, mathematician and astronomer. He used a watch apart and studied its components to build this invention with wooden pieces. Although it was 1752, his invention was fully functioning until his death.
What is the wooden clock?
100
This athlete set numerous records in basketball, including being the youngest player to score 30,000 career points and winning NBA championships with multiple teams.
Who is LeBron James?
200
What is the name of the influential record label founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit. The label was home of artists like The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and The Supremes.
What is Motown Records?
200
This was the case in which Black parents sued over the "Freedom of Choice" policy designed to avoid integration.
What is Davis V. EBR Parish School Board?
Case was filed in 1954 and won by the parents in 1960.
200
This seminal comedy sketch show was so popular that it spurred the production of A-list Super Bowl halftime shows. In 1992, creator Keenan Ivory Wayans put together a live show as counter-programming to Super Bowl XXVI’s marching band-filled halftime show. The ratings were so high that the NFL began booking top talent starting the next year.
What is "In Living Color"?
200
In 1966, Marie Van Brittan Brown, along with her husband Albert Brown invented the first version of this invention due to her safety concerns in her neighborhood.
What is the first home security system?
200
Overcame childhood illness of polio and physical challenges to become the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics (1960)
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
300
Despite a severe vocal injury at the age 13, this artist has amazing career span over 25 years. She recently release a documentary of her sold out world tour.
Recently, became the First Black Women to top the Billboard chart for Country Music at #1
Who is Beyonce?
300
On August 10, 1967, members of a Civic and Voters' League led by A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks embarked on a 10-day form of protest presenting a list of grievances to Governor John McKeithen. Their efforts led to less discriminatory hiring practices.
What is 105 Miles to The Capitol?
The group marched from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge
300
Emmy Award winning show where a documentary crew follows the woes of a predominantly black public school staff.
What is Abbott Elementary?
300
Glady West and her team created a program that could precisely calculate the orbits of satellites. These calculations made it possible to determine a model for the exact shape of Earth. Yielding today's modern day what?
What is the GPS System?
300
A gymnast winning multiple Olympic gold medals and world championships. Holding the record for the most world championship medals by a gymnast.
Who is Simone Biles?
400
These lyrics belong to a prominent song in Black History
I go to the movie
And I go downtown
And somebody keep telling me
"Don't hang around"
Hint: This song was played on the soundtrack of Malcolm X movie
What is "A Change is Gonna Come"?
400
Dr. J.M Frazier opened this school to allow black children to receive education and avoid a life of sharecropping in 1907. Still operating today, the school is current mascot is a Panther.
*Will accept current school name
What is Hickory Street School?
The school later became Baton Rouge Colored High then McKinley High School which still operates today in South Baton Rouge.
400
This Black television producer and screen writer has wrote and released some of America's favorite series including a show about a political crisis expert with a black lead actress.
Who is Shonda Rimes?
Founder of production company, Shondaland
400
Jerry Lawson and his team refined and improved technology developed that allowed games to be stored as software.
What is the Videogame Cartridge ?
400
He holds the single-season home run record (73) with his 2001 performance and is first on the all-time MLB home runs list with 762.
Who is Barry Bonds?
500
She was the First Black person to win a Grammy. specifically for Jazz Performance. Her signature style included her iconic vocal range, clear tone and ability to improvise with her hallmark scat singing.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
500
This restaurant was notoriously known as a safe place where all races could sit down to meet and discuss strategy during the Civil Rights Movement. Prominent Leaders like Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Thurgood Marshall would gather in the upstairs dining room to have discreet discussions over creole food. The home of Queen of Creole Cuisine.The restaurant is located in New Orleans.
What is Dooky Chase?
500
A series that ran for over 140 episodes in which the main character played himself. Although the series already deemed staple classic, it was followed by a successful drama reboot reprising the orginal premise.
What is The Fresh Prince of Belair?
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500
His work allowed him become the chief engineer of PC design, where he worked with a team to develop the IBM PC. In 1999, him and his team developed a gigahertz microchip, the first in the world. He became the first African-American to become an IBM Fellow.
Who is Mark Dean?
500
A former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. He holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title, achieving the feat at the age of 20.
Who is Mike Tyson?
