Black History Month Women
As a 6-year-old, who entered an all-white school.
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 which artist?
Lizzo
This is the month of Black History Month?
What is February?
In the wake of the assassination of Black nationalist Malcolm X, a political organization founded in 1966, dressed in black berets and black leather jackets.
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party
This woman refused to give her seat to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first black President.
Who is Barack Obama?
This is the first African American in the major Leagues?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This is an annual celebration of the Black heroes in history.
What is Black History Month?
Believed equality could be achieved by temporarily accepting social segregation (equal rights a little at a time). Who believed this?
Booker T. Washington
Who helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Who is the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
who is Jackie Robinson?
In 1956, the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title (French Championships)
Althea Gibson
These are the colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
Believed equality could be gained by fighting for civil rights -- right now.
Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who believed this?
W.E.B. DuBois
Which teen movie did Gabrielle Union get her breakthrough role in?
Bring It On
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?
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Carter G. Woodson
Laws created a system of legal segregation are called what?
Jim Crow Laws
She was only 12 when she became the first female African American author published?
who is Phillis Wheatley?
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.
Bayard Rustin
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)
Beyonce
Who is the first Black vice president of the United States.
Kamala Harris
Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction is called
Segregation
When did Loretta Lynch become the first African American women to be a U.S Attorney General?
April 27, 2015
Who played T’Challa in Black Panther?
Chadwick Boseman
Which Super Bowl did Mike Carey Referee?
2007
Carey was assigned to Super Bowl XLII, becoming the first Black referee to be assigned to a Super Bowl. His uniform from that game sits on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Who was the first African American pilot to fly solo around the world?
Barrington Irving Jr.
When did Tyler Perry launch his own television studio?
2006
Who was the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Cheryl Boone
How did Robert Johnson become the first African American Billionaire?
He sold BET to Viacom for 3 billion.
Who was the first African-American to win the masters golf tournament?
Tiger Woods
Who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright?
Langston Hughes
Who was the First African american woman to win the academy award for best actress
Halle Berry
Which of the following is Maya Angelou's first body of work?
I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing
Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, Which African-America inventor played an important role in it's development.
Lewis Howard Latimer
Who was the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution?
Dr. Ruth Simmons
Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard?
Richard Theodore Greener
Who was the first African-American U.S. attorney general?
Eric Holder
During the 2023 Grammy ceremony, this iconic person achieved EGOT status.
Viola Davis
Who developed his stage name as a reference to New York's J/Z Subway which has a stop in Brooklyn?
Jay-Z
Who is named the King of Pop?
Michael Jackson
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?
Maya Angelou
Who Is the first female African-American Billionaire?
Oprah Winfrey
In 1993 this pediatrician became the first woman and the first African American to be named the U.S. Surgeon General.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders
He played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 12 years, until he retired in 1991 due to his HIV diagnosis.
Magic Johnson
What is Rogers Nelson's stage name?
Prince
Who was one of the first African-American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine?
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin acted in only one movie, What is the name of that movie?
The Blues Brothers