Athletes
A basketball player that recently passed away with his daughter. He played for the Lakers for 20 years and was inducted into the hall of fame in 2020.
Hint** You sometime say his name when throwing things in the trash can of other kinds of bins!
Kobe Bryant.
This author was known for writing an in-depth weekly column in a leading black newspaper, The Chicago Defender, about the gaining traction from the Civil Rights Movement. This author also got published in The Crisis the official magazine of NAACP, their most famous poem being The Negro Speaks of River.
Langston Hughes
A free black man, is helping slaves escape via an underground network. When he is captured, it puts the lives of many of those fleeing in danger. What is the name of this movie?
Hint** It has something to do with trees
Roots
who invented the potato chip?
George Clum
This activist advocated for black empowerment and separation of black and white Americans, and criticized Martin Luther King Jr and the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration.
Malcolm X
He played 6 seasons for the San Francisco 49ers. In 2016 he knelt during the national anthem in protest if police brutality and racial inequality in the US. Who is this?
Hint** Has a tv show on netflix
Colin Kaepernick
This author name herself black, feminist, lesbian, mother, poet, and activist, was a pioneer for black lesbians everywhere. In her poetry and prose, she challenged the myths and taboos associated with black women, lesbians, and feminists.
Hint** Her last name is shared with a female artist of one name.This artist most popular songs was called royal.
Audre Lorde
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Hint*** They are making a reboot of this film. The orginal cast had Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah, and Danny Glover starring and Steven Spielberg directing.
The color purple
who invented peanut butter, ink, dye, soap, some cosmetics products, flour, vinegar, and synthetic rubber?
George Washington Carver
Refused to give up there seat and move to the back of the bus on March 15, 1955.
Claudette Colvin
Who was the first african american to play major league baseball?
Jackie Robinson
This author wrote Go Tell It On The Mountain and later got regcongtion in Times Magazine. Then went onto write his first essay Notes of a Native son. As this author pushed the bounds including themes of masculinity, sexuality, race, and class intertwine to create intricate narratives that run parallel with some of the major political movements toward social change in mid-twentieth century America.
James Baldwin
This film follows a writer choosing to interview the Black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. What is the name of this film?
Hint** This film will make you look at chocolate pie differently.
The Help
who was responsible for the traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
This activist was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Setting up several programs such as food banks, medical clinics, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing cooperatives, and their own ambulance service.
Hint** name rhymes with stewie
Huey Newton
This athlete broke barriers on many occasions, as they won 4 gold medals during the 1936 olympic games in the long jump and sprints. Who is this?
Hint** Has several movies made after them. Also received the presidental medal of freedom in 1997 and in 1990 awarded congressional gold medal.
Jesse Owens
This author has published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies( Madea's family reunion, and poetic justice), and television shows spanning over 50 years.
Maya Angelou
This film follows the main character and the shenanigans that he gets into on a Friday.
Hint** Started the BYE FELICIA
Friday
she invented the touch-tone phone, portal fax, fiber optic cables, and caller ID; who is she?
Interesting fact: President Obama named her the co chair of the president's intelligence advisory in 2014.
Shirley Jackson
She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women, arguably became the most famous Black woman in America
Hint** Their last name provides water.
Ida Wells
Who holds the record for most gold medal won by a female gymnast in WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS history?
Hint** She is Black lol
Simone Biles
This author explains what double consciousness in one of his most famous pieces of work in The Souls Of Black Folk. "Double consciousness applying it to the idea that black people must have two fields of vision at all times. They must be conscious of how they view themselves, as well as being conscious of how the world views them".
W.E.B. Du Bois
This movie is spoof of a bunch of scary movie.
Hint** Let me use my strong hand. lol!!!
Scary Movie 2
Who created the super soaker
Interesting fact: was made in his free time while working at NASA's jet propulsion lab.
Lonnie Johnson
who can name the first child to be integrated into school in Louisiana
Hint** she was 6 yrs old.
Ruby Bridges