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First black woman to serve on the Richmond city council and first African American woman elected mayor of a major California city.
Who is Irma Anderson?
TRUE OR FALSE.
Norman, my hometown, was a sundown town.
TRUE:(
Norman Oklahoma was a sundown town until 1967.
NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN!!!! 56 years ago
Helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This boycott was led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This boycott lasted over a year and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
Who is Ryan Coogler?
(Born in Oakland, raised in Richmond!)
TRUE OR FALSE.
In Mexico, there are about 2.5 million people who identify as Afro-Mexican or Afro-Descendent.
TRUE.
The slave trade also brought African people to New Spain into what is now known as Mexico. Mexican culture has lots of African Influence!
Name of the 1999 movie based on a true story in Richmond, California. Samuel L. Jackson plays a coach who made national headlines for suspending his undefeated high school basketball team due to poor academic results.
What is "Coach Carter"?
The name of one of one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States.
Started by O.W. Gurley, a wealthy African-American from Arkansas, moved to Oklahoma and purchased over 40 acres of land and made sure to only sell to other African-Americans.
What is "The Greenwood District" or "Black Wall Street"?
In 1921, the local newspaper reported a black man attempted to r*pe a white woman. Whites in the area refused to wait for investigation and set out on two days of racial violence where 35 blocks went up in flames as well as looting and shootings. 300 people died, 800 people were injured and 9,000 people became homeless. This event became known as as the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Names of the first-female vice president and first black vice president
AND name of the first black president of the U.S.
Who is Kamala Harris and Barack Obama?
African American professional baseball player who broke Major League Baseball's infamous "color barrier", when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, on April 15th, 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Despite racist obscenities, hate mail and death threats, on his first year with the dodgers, he earned the 'Rookie of the Year" award. He was also the first black player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949. He led Brooklyn to a World Series championship in 1955.
Who was the first Black President of South Africa?
(Bonus 100 points if you can give me the year)
The high school that Willie McGee attended. McGee is a professional baseball coach and former MLB player.
What is Harry Ells Highs school?
What event brought the first black people to Oklahoma?
A.) The Trail of Tears
B.) The American Revolution
C.) World War II
D.) Black Wall Street
A.) The trail of tears brought many African Americans into Indian Territory (before Oklahoma became a state). Many black people we're enslaved by the natives who were removed, but many also moved to Indian Territory in exchange for their freedom. About 500 lived among the tribes as Black Seminoles.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthname...
A.) Martin London King Jr.
B.) Milton Luther King Jr.
C.) Michael King Jr.
D.) Mitchel King Jr.
C.) Michael King Jr.
Inspired by activist Martin Luther, he later changed his name in 1957.
First African American performer to win an Oscar in 1940.
Who is Hattie McDaniel.
For her supporting role as 'Mammy', a house servant, in 'Gone with the Wind'.
All of the Black actors from the movie were not allowed to attend the the films premiere in 1939.
Starting in 1791, enslaved Africans in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue rose up against their oppressor's to abolish slavery and establish the first Independent Black Republic.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
First country founded by former slaves led by Toussaint Louverture.
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The name of the first African American resident at Children's Hospital Oakland as well as the first African American pediatrician in Richmond
Who is Dr. William Jenkins?
Richmond Confidential (.org)
Started his career on the Oklahoma Sooners and now is a point-guard for the Atlanta Hawks. I went to high school with him lol.
Who is Trae Young?
The founders of the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seal?
This political organization was founded in 1966 in Oakland, CA.
Before Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordon joined the billionaire's club, _____ became the first African American Billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded, Black Entertainment Television(BET) in 2001.
This music genre emerged from an Island in the Caribbean. Started as 'the voice from the oppressed' and as a rejection of the established 'white culture'.
What is Reggae?
The age of Betty Reid Soskin- a retired ranger with the National Park Service previously assigned Rose the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA.
What is 102?
The name of the rodeo technique invented by black cowboy Bill Pickett.
A horse-mounted rider chases a steer, drops from the horse, and wrestles the steer down to the ground by the horns.
What is 'Steer wrestling' or 'Bulldogging'?
Bill Pickett was a cowboy, rodeo performer and actor. He was descended from American Indians and enslaved African Americans. Lived and buried in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Historical Society
The year that Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was appointed.
What is 1967?
Throughout the 1940s and 50s, he was recognized as one of the top attorneys in the U.S., winning 29 out of 32 cases he argued before the supreme court. His most famous case was Brown vs. the Board of Education in 1954. He served as a supreme court justice from 1967 to 1991, where his primary goal was expanding civil rights, enacting affirmative action and limiting criminal punishment.
Beyonce is the person who holds the most grammys of all time. How many does she have?
Name one African country that was never colonized by Europeans.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?