Music
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album, becoming the first non-classical/jazz artist to be honored in that category
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
An American abolitionist and social activist. Born into chattel slavery, escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 similarly-enslaved people
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The name of the organization that was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The first Black Marvel superhero film to ever be released. The film earned widespread critical acclaim and grossed $200 million dollars.
What is "Black Panther”?
First Black artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Who is Stevie Wonder?
The Supreme Court's first African-American justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Who is Malcolm X
The first Black woman to win an Oscar. Earned the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in “Gone With the Wind"
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
The Apollo Theater opens and becomes a cultural and musical mecca in the heart of the Harlem neighborhood in NYC
What is 1934
An African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
The first African-American woman and the first Native American to hold a pilot license
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
A racist film that celebrated the Ku Klux Klan and which was well-received in 1915
What is the “Birth of a Nation”?
The first Black star of a national TV show [NBC's The ________ Show]
Who is Nat King Cole?
Was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, was the dominant leader in the African-American community
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State
Who is Colin Powell
A 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman
Who is Emmett Till?
The first depiction of on-screen Black love and possibly the first-known Black film was made in 1898
What is "Something Good Negro Kiss"?
The origin of Black music is traced back to slavery. Spirituals were one of the earliest forms of musical expression
What is 1619?
Historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
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What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Marxist-Leninist and Black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Was produced by the Photoplay Company in 1912. It is considered the first film with an all-Black cast
What is “The Railroad Porter”?