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This is the celebrated conductor of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This poet and author wrote the memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This group of Black pilots became legendary for their success in World War II.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong was often referred to by this childhood nickname.
What is Satchmo?
The founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners famously paid off the student debt of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class.
Who is Robert F. Smith?
This civil rights activist refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a major boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
After the murder of George Floyd, this activist group led a worldwide protest of police brutality toward Black people.
What is Black Lives Matter?
This famous civil rights orator was originally named Michael.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
These Black U.S. Army regiments helped build roads, protect national parks, and patrol the western frontier in the late 1800s.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
Name the influential record label founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit, which played a pivotal role in the development of modern music?
What is Motown Records?
An African American male named Wallace Jr. made millions selling cookies and founded this popular cookie brand.
What is Famous Amos?
This politician became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Vice Presidency in 2020.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Martin Luther King Jr. mentioned this mountain top in his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
What is Mount Nebo, the biblical mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land.
Who was the Black American mathematician and NASA scientist portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” for her pivotal role in the early days of the U.S. space program?
Katherine Johnson
Maggie Lena Walker was one of the first Black women to command a military unit and later became a highly decorated veteran serving in this military branch.
What is the U.S. Army?
Michael Jackson’s 5th solo album marked a major artistic breakthrough and earned him his first Grammy Award as a solo artist.
What is "Off The Wall"?
KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson founded Mented Cosmetics makeup line for this type of customer.
What is women of color or black women?
This abolitionist and women’s rights activist delivered the famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This activist declared, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” in his 1857 speech on abolition and self-determination.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
He was the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
Who was Sidney Poitier?
This military leader was the first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War.
Who was Colin Powell?
This black rapper was only 25 when he was shot nine times in a targeted attack before he helped define early-2000s hip-hop.
Who is 50 Cent?
Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty have made this woman one of the wealthiest entertainers in the world.
Who is Rihanna?
This journalist and anti-lynching crusader led a national campaign against racial violence in the early 1900s.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This book brings together the speeches, writings, and ideas of Malcolm X and was published after his assassination.
What is "By Any Means Necessary"?
She was the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This U.S. Navy cook heroically defended the USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor and became the first Black sailor to receive the Navy Cross.
Who is Doris "Dorie" Miller?
This was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is BET or Black Entertainment Television?
This businessman is CEO of OneUnited Bank, the largest Black-owned bank in the U.S.
Who is Kevin Cohee?
This aviator became the first Black woman to earn an international pilot’s license in 1921.
Who is Bessie Coleman?