Historical Events
The first African American Fighter pilot group
Who is the Tuskegee Airmen (Red Tails)
Name of Childish Gambino's most popular protest song
What is "This is America"
The first African American Major League Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
She is the first African-American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and she is also the first African American woman billionaire
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The award-winning Nigerian author is changing the conversation about feminism, especially as it relates to African women
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
What historical speech was given during the “March on Washington”
“I have a dream”
Who was the leading star in "The Hate U Give"
Amandla Stenberg
Who gave the speech, "Ain't I a Woman"
Sojourner Truth
She is ranked as the 2nd best-selling female artist of the 21st century, with record sales of more than 37 million dollars
Who is Beyonce Knowles?
Me too movement creator
Tarana Burke
On march 7 1965, about 600 civil rights marchers headed from Selma to Montgomery
What was Bloody Sunday
Which movie was the song "Glory" made for?
Selma
The first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas?
Who are the Little Rock 9?
He was a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. He is credited with making the NBA internationally known
Who is Michael Jordan?
Name 3 HBCUs
What are Morgan, Morehouse, Spellman, Clark, Howard, Coppin?
What Supreme Court case decided “separate was not equal”?
Brown v. Board of Education
She is the first African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress
Who is Halle Berry?
FIRST BLACK CIVILIAN TO BECOME A LICENSED PILOT
Bessie Coleman
First movie to make over 1 billion dollars at the box office
Black Panther
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
Became the first African-American and woman to bring home four Olympic gold medals in women’s gymnastics at a single game along with a bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics
Simone Biles
Who said, "You better call Tyrone"
Erykah Badu
The first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
Ralph Bunche
First Black Man to win a Golden Globe
Sterling K. Brown
Who said, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,"
Colin Kaepernick