He sold the rights to his device to the General Electric Company for the astounding sum of $40,000.00 and it became the standard across the country. Today’s modern traffic lights are based upon this individual's original design.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
100
In this movie, Hattie McDowell is best known for her role as "Mammy" for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first Academy Award won by an African American entertainer
What is "Gone with the Wind?"
100
She is considered the "Queen of Soul."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
100
Member of the "Fierce Five" in the Summer Olympics in 2012. She is also the first African American or person of any African descent of any nation to become the "Individual All Around Champion."
Who is Gabby Douglas?
200
The first large scale demonstration against segregation which began December 1, 1955 and ended December 20, 1956.
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?
200
She became one of the wealthiest African American women in the country, "the world's most successful female entrepreneur of her time," and one of the most successful African-American business owners ever. She made her
fortune by developing and marketing a line of beauty and hair products for black women
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
200
She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001). As of 2018, she is the only black woman to have won the award.
Who is Halle Berry?
200
This rap group consisted of members Chuck D, Flava Flav, Professor Griff and Terminator X. Their song "Fight the Power" was featured in the Spike Lee movie "Do the Right Thing."
Who is Public Enemy?
200
Historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30, 1974. Held at the 20th of May Stadium, it pitted the undefeated world heavyweight champion George Foreman against Muhammad Ali
What is Rumble in the Jungle?
300
The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
300
As a surgeon, researcher, and inventor, he invented the modern blood banks. Since World War II, his invention has gone on to save thousands of lives.
Who is Charles Drew?
300
This movie starred Dianna Ross and Michael Jackson easing on down the yellow brick road.
What is "The Wiz?"
300
Jazz musician known as "Lady Day." She sang, "Strange Fruit" a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1939 which protested American racism and lynching.
Who is Billie Holiday?
300
He won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
The mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
What is Jim Crowe Laws?
400
What late night television program was the first to be hosted by an African American?
Who is Arsenio Hall?
400
This 1954 musical film starred Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belefonte. It was remade into a "Hip Hopera" starring Beyoncé and Mekhi Phifer.
What is "Carmen Jones?"
400
Video by Michael Jackson that was the first black video by a black artist to appear on MTV?
What is Billie Jean?
400
First American to win 4 gold medals in the Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
500
A gospel song which became a protest song and a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. .
What is "We Shall Overcome?"
500
George Washington Carver did not only find 1,000 uses for the peanut. In 1881 he founded this school to train African Americans in agriculture and industry to promote economic progress.
What is Tuskegee Institute?
500
This 1985 movie starred Whoopi Goldburg as Ms. Celie and was set in the rural south between 1909-1949. It is based upon the novel with the same name by Alice Walker.
What is "The Color Purple?"
500
Female group that sang the song with lyrics, "I get so weak in the knees, I can hardly speak...."
Who is SWV?
500
Deion Luywnn Sanders Sr., nicknamed "Primetime", is a former American football player and works as an analyst for CBS Sports and the NFL Network. He also played another sport, name that sport.