Black History Month Women
As a 6-year-old, she entered an all-white school as a symbol of the civil rights movement and the end of segregation
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This man had a dream that all people will be equal.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Truth Hurts was the first major single by this artist
Who is Lizzo?
In the wake of the assassination of Black nationalist Malcolm X, this political organization was founded in 1966, dressed in black berets and black leather jackets.
Despite being associated with a militant "by any means necessary" philosophy, they launched programs such as free dental care, free breakfast, and drama classes in underserved black communities.
Who are the Black Panthers/Black Panther Party?
Jackie Robinson was the only Bruin athlete in UCLA history to letter in four sports. What were they?
What is baseball, football, basketball and track?
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man on the bus in 1955 Montgomery, AL.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
In 2018, this person became the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film, Dear Basketball. He was a credited writer for the project.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
Laws that created a system of legal segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What honor did Ralph Bunche receive in 1950?
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
She helped 300 slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first African American to play in the MLB. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
In 1956, she was the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title (French Championships)
Who is Althea Gibson?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th?
Patrisse Cullors ’12 is an activist who co-founded what global movement?
What is Black Lives Matter?
The first Black vice president of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris?
Who is the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This famous African-American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens?
This historian started Negro history week, later renamed Black History Month in 1976. He was also notably the second African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Where is the mural, titled “the Black Experience” located?
What is Ackerman Union?
The first female African-American Billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
He was an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington. However, his homosexuality cost him visibility and was considered by some as a hindrance to the movement's success.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)
Who is Beyonce?
This was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. It developed as a convergence of several different clandestine efforts. The exact dates of its existence are not known, but it operated from the late 18th century to the Civil War
What is the Underground Railroad?
What Bunche Research Iniative is Prof. David Turner III Associate Director of?
What is Million Dollar Hoods?
The year Loretta Lynch become the first African American women to be a U.S Attorney General.
What is 2015?
He played T’Challa in Black Panther
Who was Chadwick Boseman?
This person was not only the first African American woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but the first woman, period.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This person believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time)
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What were UCLA’s first Black sorority and fraternity?
What is Delta Sigma Theta and Kappa Alpha Psi?
The first African-American woman to win the academy award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
Interestingly, Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress in 1939), was not allowed to attend the national premiere of Gone With The Wind, the film featuring her award-winning performance, because she was black.
Robert Johnson sold this to become the first African American Billionaire
What is BET-sold to Viacom for 3 billion?
He was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament
Who is Tiger Woods?
He was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright. One poem he wrote is, "Dream deferred"
Who is Langston Hughes?
Who are the two former students and Black Panthers who were killed in Campbell Hall in 1969?
Who are Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins Jr.?
She wrote the poem "Still I Rise" and the book, I know why the caged bird sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, this African-America inventor played an important role in it's development.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
This teen movie about cheerleaders gave Gabrielle Union get her breakthrough role.
Who is Gabrielle Union?
He founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), attended Harvard and also wrote the book, "The Souls of Black Folk"
Who is Dr. W.E.B. DuBois?
Which alumni was the first, and only until Karen Bass, Black mayor of Los Angeles?
Who is Tom Bradley ‘41?
During the 2023 Grammy ceremony, this iconic person achieved EGOT status.
Who is Viola Davis?
This superstar developed his stage name as a reference to New York's J/Z Subway which has a stop in Brooklyn
Who is Jay-Z?
He is named the King of Pop
Who is Michael Jackson?
This group was the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. They flew more than 15,000 individual flights in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Their impressive performance earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and helped encourage the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
What is the name of UCLA’s first Black Homecoming Queen?
Who is Carolyn Webb '69, M.A. '72?
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Who is Dr. Joycelyn Elders?
He wrote the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family which was later adapted as a television miniseries in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history.
He also wrote, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X.
Who is Alex Haley?
Rogers Nelson's stage name
Who is Prince?
What movie is a historical war drama about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War. Starred Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington.
What is Glory?
In 1946, the “Forgotten Four” were the first athletes to integrate professional football. Can you name one who was a UCLA Bruin?
Kenny Washington or Woody Strode