Civil Rights
Due to a planned march/protest by A. Philip Randolph, which I issued an executive order banning racial discrimination in federal defense factories and established the first Fair Employment Practices Committee.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt
Alex Haley is known for writing this best selling 1976 novel?
What is Roots: The Story of an American Family
Dr. Maulana Karenga created this cultural observance designed to celebrate African-American heritage.
What is Kwanza
Michael Jai White is a talented actor and an even better martial artist. He’s also the first black person to portray a major comic book character in this blockbuster film.
What is Spawn (1997)
This was Pixar’s first animated feature with a black lead character.
What is Soul
This state was the first to abolish slavery.
What is Vermont
Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for this novel that featured the life of a black woman who was abused by her father and husband?
What is The Color Purple
I was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Brooker T Washington
This movie and actor led to Marvel's first big win at the box office.
What is Blade and Wesley Snipes
This was considered the first mainstream television show to feature a focus on Kwanza?
What is Rugrats (December 11, 2001)
Citizens enslaved in this state were last to be notified of their freedom.
What is Texas
Zora Hurston wrote this novel about a character named Janie who falls in love with a man nicknamed "Tea Cake"?
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Black Panther Party founded in this year.
What is 1966
Writer Denny O'Neil and artist Neal Adams challenged the company's lack of diversity in this DC comics hero's storyline?
What is Green Lantern (Issue #76)
It wasn’t the first animated television series that centered on a black superhero, this show was the first that dealt with social issues like racism.
What is Static Shock
This was the theme song of the civil rights movement.
What is "We Shall Overcome"
This Ralph Ellison's novel was a story of an unnamed African man who could not be seen because people chose not to see him?
What is the Invisible Man
I made millions selling cookies?
Who is Wally "Famous" Amos
This was the year Miles Morales first introduced as Spider-Man?
What is 2011
This animated short follows a father as he tries to tackle the complicated world of doing his daughter’s hair. It’s a tribute to the beauty of black hair and the love between a father and daughter.
What is Hair Love
The Greensboro Four staged what kind of a protest.
What is a sit-in.
This author and activist’s FBI file contained a whopping 1,884 pages – the biggest file the U.S. federal agency ever compiled on any writer? Hint one of his most notable books is The Fire Next Time
Who is James Baldwin
I am a well known female activist that gained notoriety in the late 19th century for my scathing editorials denouncing racial injustice?
Who is Ida B Wells
Writers Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Yona Harvey have all written original stories that contributed to the larger mythos of this comic book hero
What is Black Panther
Hanna-Barbera’s Super Friends series featured classic DC Comics characters Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Batman and Robin. In 1977, The All-New Super Friends Hour introduced TV’s first Black superhero.
Who is Black Vulcan