Historical Events
This is the first African American fighter pilot group
Who is the Tuskegee Airmen (Red Tails)
Middle Child
Who is J. Cole
The first African American Major League Baseball player
Who is 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?
This person won their first Oscar Award this year
Who is Spike Lee
Historical speech given during the “March on Washington”
What is “I have a dream”
The leading star in "The Hate U Give"
Who is 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?
This actress took home the Actress in Supporting role performance award (Oscars)
Who is Regina King
- If Beale Street Could Talk
On march 7 1965, about 600 civil rights marchers headed from Selma to Montgomery
What is Bloody Sunday
This hit song, "Glory", featured in this movie.
What is 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. He is credited with making the NBA a globally recognized sport.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Name 3 HBCUs
What are Morgan, Morehouse, Spellman, Clark, Howard, Coppin?
This Supreme Court case decided “separate was not equal”
What is 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.
Who is Bessie Coleman
First movie to make over 1 billion dollars in box office
What is 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
He was elected in the 1994 elections after spending 27 years in prison and the brought an end to apartheid policies.
Who is Nelson Mandela
"You better call Tyrone"
Who is Erykah Badu
The first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
Who is 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