Music Legends
Who is taking over for the 99' and the 2000's?
Cash Money Records
This groundbreaking television program featured Black performers in comedy sketches years before many networks embraced diversity.
What is Soul Train?
This beverage is often featured in Juneteenth celebrations, especially red drinks symbolizing resilience and remembrance.
What is red soda or strawberry soda?
This astronaut became the first Black woman in space and later appeared on Star Trek, fulfilling a childhood dream.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This African king was so wealthy that it was reportedly caused inflation in Egypt during a pilgrimage by giving away too much gold.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This singer's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was so influential that the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.
Who is Whitney Houston?
This actress became one of the first Black women to win an Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Who is Viola Davis?
Juneteenth marks the delayed enforcement of this 1863 presidential directive that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This historian established Negro History Week, which evolved into Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This surgeon pioneered blood-storage techniques that transformed emergency medicine.
Who is Charles Drew?
In 2024, this Black woman became the first to top the Billboard Country chart with a genre-defying hit.
Who is Beyoncé?
Who played the main character in the Spike Lee production, Malcolm X?
Denzel Washington
This 1865 order, issued in Galveston, Texas, officially informed enslaved people that they were free and must now remain as paid laborers if they stayed on plantations.
What is General Order No. 3?
In modern tech culture, this Black entrepreneur became one of the youngest self-made billionaires in history through a social media platform.
Who is Tristan Walker?
This Black cowboy was believed to have inspired the character of the Lone Ranger.
What is Greenwood District?
This Motown star was granted diplomatic immunity by the U.S. government while touring overseas because of her importance to American culture.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
What is the highest-grossing motion picture in history with a predominantly Afro-American cast?
What is Black Panther?
When freedom was announced in Texas, formerly enslaved people were told they were free but also encouraged to “remain at their current place,” highlighting this economic reality that slowed true liberation.
What is continued forced labor or economic dependency?
This inventor improved the elevator by creating doors that automatically opened and closed.
Who is Alexander Miles?
Long before Elvis Presley became famous, this Black gospel guitarist was blending gospel, blues, and rock sounds on electric guitar.
Who is Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
This artist’s music videos helped break MTV’s early racial barriers, becoming one of the first Black solo stars in heavy rotation.
Michael Jackson
This actress almost turned down her role as Lieutenant Uhura until a fan named Martin Luther King Jr. convinced her to stay on Star Trek.
Who is Nichelle Nichols?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, legally abolished slavery in the United States, but Juneteenth shows its enforcement was uneven and delayed.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This entrepreneur built a hair-care empire and became the first self-made female millionaire in America.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
Before leading enslaved people to freedom, this person once disguised herself and helped commandeer a Confederate supply vessel during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?