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Ingenious Innovators
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Silver Screen Pioneers: Black Cinema History
100

The first black woman in space

Who is Mae C. Jemison?

100

This Black inventor with only an elementary school education came up with several inventions including the gas mask and the three light traffic signal

Who is Garrett Morgan?

100

This athlete protested against the Vietnam War and was stripped of his heavyweight boxing title championship in 1967. 

Who was Muhammad Ali?

100

This amendment abolished slavery.

What is the 13th amendment?

100

This movie portrayed the true story of 855 woman who were the first and only black Women's Army Corps to serve in Europe.  They resolved a three-year mail backlog despite discrimination and terrible conditions.

Who are the Six Triple Eight?

200

The First African American woman to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson

200

First self-made female millionaire - also considered as one of the founders of the African American hair care and cosmetics industry.

Who is Madam C.J. Walker?

200

This person has won 24 world championship medals, 7 Olympic medals and has four gymnast skills named after her.

Who is Simone Biles?

200

The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the South to the North is called ____________.

What is the Great Migration?
200

This movie had everyone singing "Aaron Pierre that's........"

What is Mufasa?

300

This woman was the poet at the inauguration for President Biden

Who is Amanda Gorman?

300

This inventor was the first African American person to receive a patent in the U.S paving the way for future inventor of color to gain exclusive rights to their inventions - he invented the early method of dry cleaning called "dry scouring"

Who was Thomas Jennings?

300

African American Tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles

Who is Serena Williams?

300

"Black Wall Street" was located in this city and state before the homes and businesses were destroyed in what is known as the "Black Wall Street Massacre".

Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma?

300

Before Black Panther, this was the highest grossing film led by a Black Director (Tim Story).

What is Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer?

400

The first African America woman to receive a pilot's license for the National Airmen Association of America in 1921

Who is Bessie Coleman?

400

This black inventor patented the first automatic lubrication device for steam engines in 1884.

Who is Elijah McCoy?

400

This famous African American won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics?

Who is Jesse Owens?

400

This era lasted 12 years before it was destroyed taking away renewed power, economics, growth and generational wealth.

What is the Reconstruction Era?

400

This 2018 superhero film, directed by Ryan Coogler, became the first Marvel movie to win an Academy Award and features a predominantly Black cast, including Chadwick Boseman as the titular character?

What is Black Panther?

500

This woman refused to give her seat to a white man before Rosa Parks.

Who is Claudette Colvin?

500

This female doctor was the first to receive a medical patent when she invented a laser cataract treatment device called a Laserphaco Probe in 1986

Who was Patricia Bath?

500

Kobe Bryant scored his career-high 81 points in a single game against this NBA team.

Who are the Toronto Raptors?

500

This party started the first free breakfast program.

What is the Black Panther Party?

500

This movie was based off an interracial couple who were the landmark plaintiffs in the Supreme court case that made it legal for interracial couples to get married in 1967. 

What is Loving?