The Arts
He was born September 16th, 1925 and calls his guitar Lucille wherever he goes. He performs jazz and originated in Mississippi?
Who is B.B King?
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madam CJ Walker ?
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008
Who is Barack Obama?
What is Martin Luther King most famous speech
What is I have A Dream Speech?
Name the last book of the Bible.
What is Revelation
He referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
His inventions of the corn planter and a mechanical cotton planter.
Who is Henry Blair?
Who was 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
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
Name the first book of the Bible.
What is Genesis
Who invented the clock
Who is Benjamin Banneker
Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s
What is Harlem renaissance
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Who is Ralph Bunche
In which testament of the Bible of Revelation found?
What is the New Testament?
She is best known as to be a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 memoir, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' and her numerous poetry and essay collections.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Name the black man that carried Jesus’s cross.
Who is Simon from Cyrene
Luke 23:26 As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. (NIV)
Who was the first black woman to run for president?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
What woman was a big part if the Underground Railroad .
Who is Harriet Tubman ?
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robison
His music took by storm in R&B, pop and soul, He was a big influence on everyone worldwide, later know for singing Billie Jean
Who is Michael Jackson?
She invented the world's first hair-straightening formula and/or the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated figures of the 20th century and as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
Who is Muhammad Ali?