1920s
A cultural shift of the 1920s, African Americans began expressing a new attitude through art, music, and other forms of culture, especially in this district of New York City.
What was the Roaring Twenties or Harlem Renaissance?
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film?
What is Gone with the Wind?
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s?
What is Bebop?
The civil rights protest that led to the 1956 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation on public transportation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The first African American recipient of Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” title.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
One expression of the new attitude of African Americans in the 1920s blended their cultural experiences from West Africa and the southern United States into this form of music.
What was jazz music?
The Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930s in this city.
What is Baltimore?
The team that Jackie Robinson played with in 1947.
What is The Brooklyn Dodgers?
This landmark case was filed by the NAACP when Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his 7-year-old daughter in an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The nurse who co-invented one of the first home security systems in 1966.
Who was Marie Van Brittan Brown?
As African Americans pursued industrial work in the North, post-World War I, African American populations increased in major northern urban areas by as much as 600% in a movement known by this name.
What was the Great Migration?
She founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 after six years of planning.
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
In 1949, the religious movement that Malcolm X joined.
What is the Nation of Islam?
Starting in 1959, Bill Russell made the unprecedented accomplishment of leading the Boston Celtics to these many consecutive NBA championships.
What is 8?
The first black justice on the Supreme Court?
Despite facing double stigma by being both African American and a woman, in June of 1921, Bessie Coleman became what is known as this within the realm of aviation.
What is the first licensed African American Female pilot?
This track and field athlete won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Who was Jesse Owens?
In 1940, he graduated from Columbia University and his doctoral thesis, “Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Preservation” was published
Who was Dr. Charles Drew?
The first Black female tennis player to win major tournaments including the Wimbledon in the 1950s.
Who was Althea Gibson?
Four African American college students helped ignite the civil rights movement when they staged its first sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter. What were they known as?
Who was The Greensboro Four?
Zeta Phi Beta is a Black sorority who vows to take part in political and social change for Black and women’s rights and holds members to high academic standards was founded in January of 1920 at this university in Washington D.C.
What is Howard University?
In 1932, this 40-year study began testing the impact of syphilis on 600 Black men.
What was Tuskegee Study or Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
In 1942, this branch of the US armed forces became the last to admit African-Americans.
What is the U.S. Marine Corps?
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950.
Gwendolyn Brooks
The first African American woman in Congress.
Who was Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm?