Culture
Which celebrity boycotted the Grammy awards because the Best Rap Performance category was barred from television.
Who is Will Smith
_______developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics.
Who is George Washington Carver
______ was a scholar and activist, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895 and co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
W.E.B. Du Bois
Liberia was founded and colonized by expatriates. The West African country is one of two sovereign states in the world started as a colony for ex-slaves and marginalized Black people.What is the other country?
Sierra Leone
______an African–American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime and marching bands, originated in Louisiana during the turn of the 19th century
What is Jazz
A Grammy award winner. His audio books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, won Best Spoken Word Album in 2008
Who is Barack Obama
What was the first institution of higher education founded for African-Americans ?
What is Lincoln University
Who was the first African American ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court ?
Thurgood Marshall
The Black Panthers notorious for their Afros, dark apparel, and willingness for armed self-defense, but their manifesto for change launched programs that benefited Black communities nationwide, like....
What is free dental care, breakfast for low-income children, drama classes
This baseball player helped establish the African-American owned and controlled Freedom Bank.
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
Who is Aretha Franklin
Both Condoleezza Rice and _______ started college when they were just 15 years old. She studied political science at the University of Denver; he majored in sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which former Black Panther was one of the first black photojournalists at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, receiving accolades for his work.
Ray West
What year was the interracial marriage ban overturned in the U.S ?
What is 1967
The popular clothing line FUBU created by designer Daymond John along with three other friends stands for....
What is FOR US BY US
Betty Boop was inspired by which 1920's performer
Who is Baby Esther
Who invented the 3 color traffic light ?
Garrett Morgan
Who was the first black man in space?
Guion “Guy” Bluford
Who is considered the first African American man to cross what would become U.S. territory
Who is York
What popular fried snack was accidentally invented by a black man in 1853.
Potato Chips
Kobe Bryant became the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film_____
What is Dear Basketball
Ann Jackson. The first black woman to ever earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invented what?
What is Caller-ID
__________African American astronomer, mathematician and author who constructed America’s first functional clock
Who is Benjamin Banneker
________refused to give up her public bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
Who is Claudette Colvin
Born in 1867 to former slaves on a Louisiana cotton plantation, _____ rose in power to become America's first female self-made millionaire.
Who is Madam CJ Walker