“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
The first African American Major League baseball player
Who is Jackie Robinson
100
The first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
100
“It was all a dream, I used to read Word up magazine, Salt’n’Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine”
What is Juicy x B.I.G.
100
This New York City neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”
What is Harlem
200
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise,”
Who is Maya Angelou
200
The first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s
Who is Run DMC
200
This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison
200
“Guys you know you’d better watch out, some girls, some girls are only about that thing that thing, that thing”
What is Doo Wop x Lauryn Hill
200
The first African American music company to achieve crossover success in America owned by Berry Gordy Jr.
What is Motown Records
300
“We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings...In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.”
Who is Malcolm X
300
The Guinness Book of World Records named this singer the most awarded female artist of all time
Who is Whitney Houston
300
The first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President
Who is Shirley Chishlom
300
"Let our rejoicing rise, High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea."
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing x James Weldon Johnson
300
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. was founded on this date
What is January 15, 1908
400
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
400
The first all-black professional basketball team
What is The New York Renaissance
400
The first black billionaire
Who is Robert L. Johnson (The founder of BET)
400
“It ain’t a secret don’t conceal the fact, the penitentiary's packed, and it’s filled with blacks. But some things will never change.”
What is Changes x Tupac
400
The founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X
500
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”
Who is Toni Morrison
500
The first African American to host a national television program
Who is Nat King Cole
500
The year the first Africans were brought to America to work as slaves
What is 1619
500
“Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge. I’m trying not to lose my head. It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under.”
What is The Message x Grandmaster Flex and the Furious Five
500
Three “human computers” who contributed to the United States’ success in the Space Race of 1957-1975
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson