History
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of this major US city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This artist's groundbreaking music video was the first music video by a black artist to appear on MTV. Who is the artist AND the song?
Who was Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"?
Eartha Kitt played this role in the Batman series.
Who is Catwoman?
Tuskegee Institute is located in this state
What is Alabama?
Who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 and appointed as Secretary of State in 2001 in President George W. Bush's first term?
Who is Colin Powell?
Prior to Joseph Lee‟s bread making invention, how many people were needed to produce the same amount of loaves per day?
What is twelve?
The "sit-in" movement began here.
(Place and City/State)
What is the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, NC?
This famed rapper/hype man can play 15 instruments, from French horn to oboe to xylophone.
Who is Flava Flav?
First Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia.
Who was Diahann Carroll?
Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University?
Who was Patrick Healy?
Who was the first Black American to be appointed as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations?
Who was Edith Sampson?
This measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones.
What is the thermostat?
He was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest?
Who was William S. Whipper?
This singer/songwriter was inspired to write "God Bless the Child" after she and her mother had an argument over money
Who was Billie Holiday?
In the mid-1970s, what form of dancing where the dancer flipped and spun developed from the Disco scene in the Bronx?
What is breakdancing?
In 1913, Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at this university.
What is Howard University?
She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
The ironing board was invented by what Black American woman?
Who was Sarah Boone?
This association was organized in 1880 by William L. Still for Black youth.
What is the YMCA?
This musician ran back inside the burning venue to retrieve his $30 guitar. After doing so, he named every guitar he owned Lucille, reminding himself to never run inside a burning building nor to fight over a woman.
Who was B. B. King?
This Saturday Night Live alumnus co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the hit motion picture Trading Places
Who is Dan Akroyd?
This university, founded by James Shephard in 1910, was originally named The National Religious Training School of Durham.
What is North Carolina Central University?
Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected, who was the only African American woman in Kentucky holding a city council post in 1977?
Who is Dorothy Morrow?
This man invented the directional signals for the automobile.
Who was Richard Spikes?
After Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death, this person succeeded him as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who was Ralph Abernathy?
At the height of McCarthyism in the '50s, this performer was blacklisted as a Communist over her participation in the Civil Rights Movement and her friendships with fellow activists Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois.
Who was Lena Horne?
He was the creator, director, and host of the popular television show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006
Who was Don Cornelius?
This first and only black college consortium was founded in 1929.
What is the Atlanta University System?
In 2009, he became the first African American U.S. attorney general and head of the Justice Department and its 110,000 employees.
Who is Eric H. Holder, Jr.?
George Washington Carver used this to develop postage stamp glue.
What are sweet potatoes?