Texas Black History
This state has the most African American population in the United States currently
What is Texas
Invented the gas mask and traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan
What city has Spellman, Morehouse, Morris Brown and Clark Atlanta
What is Atlanta
Did the Famous Speech on Washington in 1963 and passed away in 1968 in Memphis
Who is Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
Home of Black Wall Street and the Black Race Massacre of 1921.
What is Tulsa
First Black woman to hold a pilot license from Atlanta, TX
Who is Bessie Coleman
First African American to become Vice President of the United States
Who is Kamala Harris
The college was started in Waco, TX and later moved to Dallas, TX. It is the only HBCU in the city of Dallas
What is Paul Quinn College
First to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball?
Who is Jackie Robinson
Home of the Bus Boycott of 1955 where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.
What is Montgomery, Alabama
How many Historically Black Colleges and Universities does Texas have?
What is 9
First Black Tennis Player to win the US Open
Arthur Ashe
Starting with $1.50 cash, what college did Mary McCleod Bethune found?
What is Bethune Cookman University
Famous quote we didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth rock landed on us
Home of Bloody Sunday and the Edmund Pettis Bridge that John Lewis walked across in 1965.
What is Selma, Alabama
This Holiday that celebrates the freedom of enslaved Africans 2 years after the emancipation proclamation
What is Juneteenth
Won 4 Gold Medals in the 1936 Olympics in Track and Field
Who is Jesse Owens
What HBCU did Dr. King Jr. attend?
What is Morehouse
Has an airport in Jackson, MS named after him. Was the leader of the NAACP first field secretary in Mississippi.
Who is Medger Evers
What is Oakland
First African American woman in the Texas State Legislature
Barbara Jordan
Found Jet and Ebony Magazine
Who is John H Johnson
Houston, TX has this HBCU that was founded in March 7, 1927.
What is Texas Southern University
A pioneer in education and was called the Mother of the Movement. She did voter registration drives and taught literacy classes. She was never considered an equal to the men of the civil rights era.
Who is Septma Clark
Home of the renaissance of the 1920's with jazz, poetry, and dance and also the Apollo Theater.
What is the Harlem, NY