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Black Inventions
100
A color created when you mix yellow & blue together
What is the color green?
100
Boxer who claimed to "Float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee..."
Who is Muhammad Ali?
100
Organization helps fund over 40 African American colleges
What is UNCF?
100
Garrett Morgan helped to control the traffic jams at intersections with this invention.
What is the "Traffic Light"?
200
This is another way of saying a "sophisticated spray gun"
What is an "Airbrush"?
200
Born on March 9th in Ohio, this youthful rapper named Shad Moss of "Bounce with Me" was given his nickname by Snoop Dogg.
Who is "Lil Bow Wow"
200
Name of the monthly Black publication (newspaper) distributed here in Rochester.
What is "The Challenger?"
200
Made exclusively for the hair...with the comb, it made a good grooming pair!
What is the Hair Brush?
300
Another word for purple
What is "Violet"?
300
Claudette Colvin, a 15yr old Black teenager was arrested in Alabama nine months earlier than this woman for not moving to the back of the Montgomery Public Bus...
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
Period after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
300
From 1876 on, we were able to cook foods with this invention much better than with campfires.
What is the "oven" "Stove"
400
Art used to be an Olympic Sport True or False?
True - Early 20th Century
400
Name of Fredrick Douglass's newspaper
What is "The North Star?"
400
"Rapper's Delight" was considered to be the first Hip Hop record to start a new era of style by this first Hip Hop "Group"...
Who is the "Sugar Hill Gang"
400
Madam C.J. Walker made a small fortune in 1905 as she added this invention to her Beauty Salon for untangling hair.
What is "Straightening Comb"?
500
This painting style and method is known for it's vigorous and physical activity...
What is "Action Painting"
500
W.E.B. DuBois was famous for graduating from this Prestigious University
What is Harvard?
500
Created Black History Week
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
500
Since 1885, this invention of Brundige & Marshman was around long before the keyboard and computer composed literature.
What is the "Typewriter"?