Politics
Who is the first Black female Vice President in the United States?
Who is Vice President Kamala Harris?
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War
What is abolished slavery?
First fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for African Americans
What is Virginia State University?
Who is considered The Godfather of Go-Go?
Who is Chuck Brown?
Note: Charles Louis Brown was an American guitarist, bandleader and singer who has garnered the honorific nickname "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed in and around the Washington metropolitan area in the mid-1970s.
A school that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary of Education is called this.
What is a Historically Black College or University (HBCU)?
Note: The second Morril Act of 1890 required states, especially former confederate states, to provide land grants for institutions for black students if admission was not allowed elsewhere. As a result, many HBCUs were founded.
The movement called to eradicate anti-Blackness and create a world “where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.”
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?
A landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
First African American to vote in an election under the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting voting rights regardless of race
Who is Thomas Mundy Peterson?
In 1978, this funk band sang "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)"
Who is Parliament?
Note: Funkadelic is an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of that decade. The group that would become Funkadelic was originally formed by George Clinton in 1964, as the unnamed musical backing for his doo wop group
Black Greek lettered organizations are often referred to as this.
What is The Divine Nine (or D9)?
Note: The formal name for The Divine Nine is the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), which is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American Greek lettered fraternities and sororities that promotes interaction for the exchange of informative and cooperative programming.
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the US?
What is Voting Rights?
Influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947, Four Young Men staged the first sit-in at Greensboro.
Who is the Greensboro Four: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil?
First African American to formally practice medicine
Who is James Derham?
What group sang Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice....)
Who is Sly & The Family Stone?
Note: Active from 1966 to 1983, it was pivotal in the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music. Its core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and included Stone's brother and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone, sister and singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham. It was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, male and female lineup.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of this fraternity, which was founded at Cornell University in 1906.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity Inc.?
Note: This fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally ad socially, at Cornell.
The founder of New Georgia Project and Fair Fight, nonpartisan efforts to register Georgia citizens as voters and has worked with a consortium of organizations to secure 800,000 newly registered Georgia voters since 2014.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
On July 27, 1919, an African American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting
What is the Chicago Race Riot of 1919?
First African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
Who is Joseph Rainey (R-SC)?
Imagine this, he is multi-platinum gospel artist who bridges hip-hop, pop, R&B and gospel. He was the host and executive producer of BET's Sunday Best
Who is Kirk Franklin?
In January 15, 1908 a Greek-lettered sorority was founded. What was the first, established by African-American college educated women.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
Note: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) was founded on January 15th, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Miner Hall. AKA was incorporated on January 29th, 1913. Their purpose is service to all mankind.
All-white public elementary school in the south in the American South in 1960 when she was six, she was escorted to and from class by U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Note: She was one of only six African American students to pass the test to determine whether or not they could attend a white school. It's said the test was written to be especially difficult so that student would have a hard time passing thereby delaying the integration of schools.
She rose to the national stage from Houston’s largely African American Fifth Ward, becoming a public defender of the U.S. Constitution and a leading presence in Democratic Party politics for two decades. She was the first black woman elected to the Texas state senate and the first black Texan in Congress.
Who is Barbara C. Jordan?
First Greek-letter fraternal organization established by African Americans
What is Sigma Pi Phi
Note: Sigma Pi Phi (ΣΠΦ) is the first successful and oldest Black Greek-lettered organization. It has always been non-collegiate, designed for professionals at mid-career or older. Sigma Pi Phi was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 1904. The fraternity quickly established chapters (referred to as "member boulés" ) in Chicago, Illinois and then Baltimore, Maryland.
He won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1992, for Luther Vandross' "Power of Love" and in 2001 he won for Best Contemporary Jazz Album for his seventh solo instrumental album
Who is Marcus Miller?
Note: Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, among others
This black greek letter organization tradition stems from African roots in games played by Congo children and gum-boot dancers of South African mines.
What is stepping and strolling?
Note: W.E.B. Du Bois, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., asserted, “In each case an attempt has been made to connect present conditions with the African past. This is not because Negro Americans are Africans, or can trace an unbroken social history from Africa, but because there is a distinct nexus between Africa and America, through broken and perverted, is nevertheless not to be neglected.”