History
What is our first Women and Women of Color Vice Presidents Ethnic Background?
What is Indian and Jamaican?
Who invented the elevator?
Who is Alexander Miles
What was the unanimous ruling that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Whose hits included When Doves Cry, Little Red Corvette, and Purple Rain?
Who is Prince?
In 1939, Who was not able to perform at constitution hall because of white performers only policy but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt protested and the singer was able to perform?
Who is Marian Anderson?
First African American Women to perform at white house, Carnegie hall, and metropolitan Opera.
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
False. It was an executive order by the president Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
Who invented peanut butter?
Who is George Washington Carver
What are the riots that resulted in 55 people dead, more than 2,300 injured, more than 1,000 buildings burned, and total damage at around $1 billion. Due to four police officers shooting a black man with a taser and severely beating him.
What are the Los Angeles Riots?
Who is known as the queen of soul?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
Before he was a blockbuster actor, who was The Fresh Prince and, won the first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance. They boycotted the awards because the category was barred from television.
Who is Will Smith?
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who invented the potato chip?
A) Madam CJ Walker
B) George Crum
C) Garret Morgan
What is B) George Crum?
He was a chef and unintentionally created the potato chip during the summer of 1853. A Customer sent back their fried potato's after complaining they were too thick.
What was the march that was intended to bring about a kind of spiritual renewal among Black men, and to instill them with a sense of solidarity and of personal responsibility to improve their own condition.
What is the million man march?
Who took the electric guitar to whole new levels and has hits that included Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, and Voodoo Chile? He died at 27 years old but his impact is forever felt.
Who is Jimmy Hendrix?
Who was first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black major-party presidential candidate survived three assassination attempts during her 1972 campaign.
Shirley Chisholm
Why is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
A) To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
B) To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on black Americans.
C) To celebrate the history of black achievement.
What is B) To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on Black Americans
Who invented the home security system?
A) Marie Van Brittan Brown
B) Otis Boykin
C) Lonnie G Johnson
What is A) Marie Van Brittan Brown
A nurse who recognized security threats to her home and devised a system that would alert her of strangers at her door.
In 1963, What was the event where white supremacists bombed and killed four young African American girls. The bombing was the third in 11 days, after the federal government had ordered the integration of Alabama’s school system.
What is the Birmingham Church Bombing?
Who is known as the King of Pop; an American singer, songwriter, and dancer?
Who is Michael Jackson?
What women holds most Grammy awards won in a year?
In 1955, who was kidnapped and murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman at a grocery store? The murders confessed to kidnapping but were acquitted of murder by an all white, all male jury.
Who is Emmett Till?
Who invented the traffic signal?
Who is Garret Morgan
What massacre was a series of outbreaks of labor- and race-related violence by White Americans who murdered between 40 and 250 African-Americans in late May and early July 1917?
what is the St. Louis Race Riots
Who was called Mr. Dynamite, and is known for his songs, I Got You, It's a Man's Man's Man's World, and "Say it Loud, I am Black, and I am proud"?
Who is James Brown?
First African-American gymnast to win the women's artistic individual all-around at the Olympic Game?
Who is Gabby Douglas?