BHM2024
Dance
HBCU
Blacks and The Arts
BHM Fun Facts
100

Who is the founding father of Black History Month?

Carter G. Woodson

100

She created the song "Can't Get Enough" that started the popular cultural line dance across the nation.

Who is Tamia Hill?

100

What does HBCU stand for?

Historical Black College Universities 

100

A group of  intellectuals and cultural revival of African Americans music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in the 1920s and 1930s

Harlem Renaissance 

100

Who is the famous Black inventor of the traffic light and the gas mask?

Garrett Morgan 

200

What was Black History Month Called back 1926?

Negro History Week (Bonus 200 points) 

200

He is one of the most important choreographers in the history of modern dance in 1958

Who is Alvin Ailey?

200

How many HBCUs are there ?

107

200

Her abstract art is like a firework of display of joy and celebration. She wasn’t just an artist; she was a color wizard.

Alma Thomas ( The Queen of Color) 

200

What Does NAACP stand for?

National Association for the Advancement of Color People

300

What is the Theme for Black History Month 2024?

 African Americans and The Arts 

300

When slaves couldn't learn martial arts, what was the art form that mixed fighting styles with dance.

What is Capoeira?

300

Ms.S attended which HBCU for undergrad? 

Central State University ( Bonus extra 200 points) 

300

What Black filmmaker explores African American experience, challenges racial stereotypes, and addresses controversial subjects through his art?

Spike Lee 

300

Who is the Cleveland Native Actress who played another Cleveland Native Actress / Singer in a movie? Can You Name Them \Both?  

Halle Berry and Dorothy Dandridge 

400

Why is Black History Month in the month of February?

Because of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass Birthdays are in February. Feb. 12th and Feb. 14th 

400

When white ballet companies wouldn't allow black folks in there companies, what type of dance style did African Americans come together to create?

What is Modern dance?

400

Which school is the oldest HBCU?

1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

400

What Black writer and civil rights activist is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and sexuality.

James Baldwin

400

Native of Lorain Ohio, who is the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, with works like The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Sula?

Toni Morrison 

500

What Does ASALH stand for?

Association of the Study of African Americans Life and History 

500

The first female African American principle dancer with American Ballet Theatre.

Who is Misty Copeland?

500

How many HBCUs are in Ohio? Can you Name them?

2 ( Central State University and Wilberforce University) (Bonus Extra 200) Points 

500

Her poetry was political and worked to uplift the black experience in the arts and as part of the Black Arts Movement.

Nikki Giovanni 

500

Who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967.

Carl Stokes