Founding Members
Name one of the founding members of the NAACP
W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells Barnet, Mary White Ovington, Henry Maskowitz, William English Walling, Oswald Garrison Villard, Archibald Grimke, Mary Church Terrell
What was the name of the AfricanAmerican fighter pilot group formed during World War II?
Tuskegee Airmen
Original name was Cassius Clay
Muhammad Ali
Name 2 of the 5 highest grossing films of all time featuring a predominantly black cast:
1) COMING TO AMERICA 2) BAD BOYS II 3) BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 4) DREAMGIRLS 5) BAD BOYS
Malcolm X Birth Name
Malcolm Little
Organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
In which year did President Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863
He holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average (30.12 points per game) and highest career playoff scoring average (33.45 points per game). In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN.
Michael Jordan
Will Smith starred in the entertaining "Legend of Bagger Vance". What sport was featured in the movie?
Golf
In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?
Little Rock, AK
Who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the '1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement'?
Fannie Lou Hammer
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?
US Senator
Won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin Germany
Jesse Owens
First black male to win an Academy Award?
Denzel Washington
What is the oldest civil rights organization still working today?
NAACP
What primarily black female college was founded by two white women in Atlanta, Georgia?
Spelman College
What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?
NAACP
He is the NFL's all time leading rusher and won 3 Superbowls as a member of the Dallas Cowboys during the 1990s.
Emmit Smith
School Daze, He Got Game, Crooklyn, and Bamboozled were famous films of what director/actor?
Spike Lee
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that opened all public schools to black students?
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Founded PUSH
Rev. Jesse Jackson
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
Woolworths
He broke Babe Ruth's home-run record when he hit his 715th home-run in 1974.
Hank Aaron
Which husband and wife appear in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever and Do the Right Thing?
Will Smith & Jada Smith
What former slave published the newspaper "The North Star"?
Fredrick Douglas