Baby Boomer Sitcoms
This show featured Florida and James raising their kids in the Chicago projects.
What is GOOD TIMES?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This 1921 massacre destroyed a prosperous Oklahoma community known as “Black Wall Street.
What is Tulsa (Greenwood)?
He gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
These were the African American cavalry units formed after the Civil War.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
This Norman Lear sitcom followed Archie Bunker, often clashing with his liberal son-in-law.
What is All in the Family?
This president signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A massacre in this Florida town in 1923 left the Black community burned to the ground.
What is Rosewood?
This U.S. Congressman was known as the “conscience of the Congress” for his lifelong activism.
Who is John Lewis?
This World War II squadron of Black fighter pilots became legendary for their bravery.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
George Jefferson’s neighbors were Tom and Helen, one of TV’s first interracial couples, originally introduced on this show.
What is All in the Family? (spin-off connection)
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
In 1898, white supremacists overthrew the elected government in this North Carolina city.
What is Wilmington?
This leader promoted Black pride, self-defense, and later the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
She disguised herself as a man to fight in the Civil War.
Who is Cathay Williams?
Before The Jeffersons, Sherman Hemsley appeared on this show as George.
What is All in the Family?
The first Black president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This Tennessee town saw a 1946 race riot after Black veterans tried to protect themselves from white mobs.
What is Columbia?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He became the first Black four-star general in the U.S. Army in 1979.
Who is General Roscoe Robinson Jr.?
This Harlem-based show starred a junk dealer and his son.
What is Sanford and Son?
He defeated Donald Trump in 2020.
Who is Joe Biden?
This 1873 massacre in Louisiana wiped out Reconstruction-era Black political power.
What is Colfax?
This co-founder of the NAACP won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
This general served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?