Sports
This is the first African American in the major Leagues?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This film featured Disney's first Black Princess.
What is Princess and the Frog?
How many HBCUs in the state of Maryland?
What is four
A 6 year old girl who was escorted by the National Guard to attend a white integrated school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
A leader of the Harlem Renaissance and one of America's greatest poets of all time.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Tennis player has 23 Grand Slams - the 2nd most won by any woman in the sport's history?
Who is Serena Williams?
This spiderman is the first Afro-latino or black spanish spiderman in history.
Who is Miles Morales?
This is the city & state that had the largest free-black population BEFORE the Civil War in 1865.
Where is Baltimore, MD?
She was the 1st black woman to sit on the Supreme Court!
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
He was the 1st black person to sit on the Supreme Court!
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The first Black coach in the NFL
Who is Fritz Pollard?
This cult classic follows two rising basketball stars who find their way back to each other.
What is Love and Basketball?
Name of the early 20th century movement celebrating black artists and writers in New York
What is Harlem Renaissance?
First Black person to win 2 Oscars for best costume design
Who is Ruth E. Carter?
This Marvel film starring __________ won the award for best costume design. The first time an African American won in this category.
Chadwick Boseman
This famous African-American man won 4 medals in the Berlin Olympics for Track & Field. Leaving his white counterparts upset - as it was still the time of segregation.
Who is Jesse Owens?
Follows the lives of three young males living Crenshaw Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
What is Boyz n the Hood?
She conducted a number of successful theoretical physics experiments and made breakthrough scientific research that enabled others to invent the fax machine, touch-tone phone, fiber optic cells, solar cells and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson?
First black woman to win a Grammy?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The first African American to have his image portrayed on a Postal Stamp
Who is Booker T Washington?
This player is 'HIM' and plays for the Grizzlies...
Who is Ja Morant?
A 1978 American musical adventure film produced in collaboration between Motown Productions and Universal Pictures featuring an entirely African-American cast. The film follows the adventures of a shy Harlem, New York, schoolteacher who finds herself magically transported to a new Land.
What is The Wiz?
In 1992, Dominique Dawes and Elizabeth Okino became the first Black athletes to compete in what Olympic sport?
Gymnastics
Who was the first African-American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Who is Cheryl Boone?
This black man was the 1st to build a billion-dollar company and now has a museum named after him in Baltimore City.
Who is Reginald F. Lewis?