The Arts
In his 1978 debut album, this artist played 27 instruments
Who is Prince?
The HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line, was derived from this young mother's cervical tissue
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
His "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895 centered on vocational training as a means for economic advancement
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Coined as the "Moses of her people", this abolitionist risked her life to free enslaved people
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who penned, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother."
Who is Langston Hughes?
The first physician to perform a successful open-heart surgery in the US
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
This Black American won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
Who is former President Barack Obama?
The founder of Bethune-Cookman University
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
Her resistance to give up her bus seat to a white passenger set in motion the historical Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
She is the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre.
Who is Misty Copeland?
Who is George Washington Carver?
Kathryn Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson were brilliant mathematicians for NASA. What does the acronym NASA stand for?
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Founded in 1837, the nation's first Historically Black College and University
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
The first African-American woman to publish a book of poems
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This 1920s-30s era saw an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, and fashion centered in New York
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Deemed the "father of the blood blank" this surgeon organized the first large-scale blood bank during WWII
Who is Charles Drew?
Who is Simone Biles
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In 1940 this woman became the first African-American to win an Oscar
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
In 1959 she became the first Black woman to win a Grammy Award
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This NASA mathematician, portrayed in the film Hidden Figures, provided key orbital mechanics calculations for the early U.S. space program.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This US athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens?
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling of "separate but equal", legalized widespread racial segregation
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Who is Ruby Bridges?