Civil Rights
Communities that did not welcome African Americans. Any African American caught in these towns after dark were met with violence.
What are Sundown Towns?
This African American woman is known for her line of cosmetic and hair care products for black women including straighteners and Wonderful Hair Grower.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
In African traditions, this hair style was used as a way to identify tribe, marital status, wealth, power, age and religion.
What are braids?
Inductee to the World Golf Hall of Fame, this American golfer became the first African American to win a golf championship in 1997.
Who is Tiger Woods?
After accidently slicing a potato too thin, George Crum invented this crunchy delectable treat in 1853.
What is this potato chip?
March from Salem, AL to Montgomery Alabama on March 7, 1965 when 600 protesters marching for African American voting rights were ambushed by Alabama State Troopers.
Bloody Sunday
What is Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing?
Founder of "Negro History Week" in 1926 before it became Black History Month in 1976.
Carter G. Woodson
First enslaved person and person of African decent and 3rd colonial American woman to become a published author with her book of poetry "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Morals".
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Mobile refrigeration system created by African American inventor Fredrick McKinley Jones.
what is the Termo King
This racial etiquette governed the actions, manners, attitudes, and words of all black people when in the presence of whites.
What is Jim Crow Etiquette?
A music genre and musical form that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. It incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture
What is the Blues?
Located in Atlanta, GA., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Graduated from this men's Historically Black College at the age of 19.
What is Morehouse College?
American engineer, physician and former NASA astronaut who was the first African American woman to travel to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
the contributions of Dr. Gladys West led to the development of this satellite tracking system.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Founded in 1854, it is the oldest Historically Black University still active today.
What is Lincoln University
Now the largest organization for women in the world with over 300,000 members. This organization was founded by Mary McLeod Bethune with the goal of empowering women to participate in civil, governmental, economic, and academic programs.
National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
Robert L Johnson became the first African American Billionaire as owner of this popular television network.
What is Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Thanks to this innovation by Alexander Miles in 1887, opening and closing doors on this machine became a thing of the past.
What is automatic elevator doors?
Often referred to as "Father of the Civil Rights Movement", this individual dedicated his life to the betterment of all people, specifically African Americans, women and minority groups.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The C.R.O.W.N. Act of 2022 prohibited discrimination based on this traditional African American feature.
What are natural hair textures and traditional styles?
Cooked Pig Intestines
What are Chitterlings?
Best known for her role as Clair Huxtable in the television sitcom The Cosby Show, she became the first African American to win a Tony Award in 2004.
Who is Phylicia Rashad?
George Washington Carver was also credited to the development alternating the planting of cotton crops with the planting of sweet potatoes and legumes in order to restore nitrogen into the soil to make it healthier for human consumption and crop growing.
What is crop rotation?