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Who said “I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger”?
Who is Harriet Tubman
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
What YEAR were the FIRST Africans brought to America to work as slaves?
1619
At age 62, this musician surpassed The Beatles at the top of the pop charts.
Who is Louis Armstrong
Who is the Peanut Man? What did he invent?
Who is George Washington Carver. He invented numerous products from sweet potatoes, including edible products like flour and vinegar and non-food items such as stains, dyes, paints and writing ink.
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who is “Martin Luther King Jr”
MADE A MLB DEBUT AT BROOKLYN'S EBBETS FIELD.
Who is Jackie Robinson
What is the Walker System?
Walker’s method, known as the “Walker system,” involved scalp preparation, lotions and iron combs.
Who is the “Empress of the Blues?”
Bessie Smith, an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.
This persons last name means ‘thankful’
Who is Tupac Shakur
Who said “It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you, or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.”
Who is Kobe Bryant
What happened on December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full.
Who was the 1st Betty Boop?
Esther Jones, a Black jazz singer in Harlem.
He Was an Insanely Intense Performer
Who is Little Richard
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What is the Alabama Church Bombing
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Who is Morgan Freeman
Who was the 1st African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance.
What is vaudeville
This singer performed at inaugurations of three U.S. Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Who is Aretha Franklin
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
Who said, “Have a vision. Be demanding.”
Who is Colin Powell
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
2 questions
What year was interracial marriage banned, what year was interracial marriage overturned?
Banned 1664
Overturned 1967
Who used a piano to conduct his orchestra?
Who is Duke Ellington, his keyboard using piano cues and visual gestures. Very rarely did he conduct using a baton.
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson