Arts
He won a Pulitzer prize chronicling his seven generation family from West Africa in the story of Roots.
Who is Alex Haley
Tuskegee Institute is located in this state.
What is Alabama
Berry Gordy's first royalty check was $3.40. He was the founder of this black record label.
What is Motown Records
The "Greensboro 4" staged their first sit-in during this year.
What is 1960
He discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.
Who is George Washington Carver
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award for this 1939 film
What is Gone with the wind?
This principal of Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver
Who is Booker T Washington
She is known as the Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Martin Luther King was assassinated at this age.
What is 39
He invented the three way traffic light and the gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan
This section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture. Where there was an artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920-1930's.
What is Harlem/ Harlem Renaissance
W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D from this prestigious University.
What is Harvard University?
This famous female vocalist toured with "The Count Basie Orchestra".
Who is Billie Holiday
The number of trips Harriet Tubman made to the South to Rescue black slaves
What is 19
This boxer won a Gold medal at the Olympics and went on to become a minister.
George Foreman
Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer who is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound.
Who is James Cleveland
The alma mater of Martin Luther King. This college was originally August Institute, and was organized by three ministers in the basement of an Atlanta Baptist church in 1867?
What is Morehouse College?
The television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman starred this actress who traced her family history from slavery to the Civil Rights era?
Who is Cicely Tyson?
This was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp
Who is Booker T Washington?
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian played an important role in bringing this arthritis drug to the public.
What is Cortisone?
Music with an emphasis on improvisation that began in New Orleans around the 1900's
What is Jazz
Sales of her innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean leading her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
This black actor starred in a famous movie about an interracial marriage. "Guess Who's coming to dinner"
Who is Sidney Poitier
Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black History Month) who also established the first historical society devoted exclusively to research on the black American.
Who is Carter G Woodson
This mechanical engineer held over 50 patents. His name was so synonymous with inventions that he has his own catch phrase.
Who is Elijah McCoy/ Who is "the real McCoy"