Exhibition
Black History
Music
The AME Zion Church
Women in the Bible
Food
Movies/TV
100
OWN is a black owned television network and stands for...
What is Oprah Winfrey Network?
100
She became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
100
"I woke up like this...Flawless"
Who is Beyonce?
100
"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves. I could have freed thousands more."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
I became Queen of Persia in place of Vashti.
Who is Esther?
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she met with his loving approval more than all the other young women. So he placed the royal high turban on her head and appointed her queen in place of Vashti.
100
Pearl Milling Company is a brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods. From 1889 to 2021 it was
What is Aunt Jemima?
100
Phylicia Rashad played the dynamic Mrs. Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show. In the show she was a loving mother of 5, devoted wife, and worked as a ____.
What is an attorney/lawyer?
200
He was a retired four star general and was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.
Who was Colin Powell?
200
She was the first black female astronaut and was part of NASA's 1992 space mission.
Who is Dr. Mae C. Jemison?
200
What is the name of this sibling gospel-duo who's real names are Erica and Tina Campbell?
Who is Mary, Mary?
200
She was the first female Bishop consecrated in the A.M.E. Zion church (2008).
Who is Mildred B. Hines?
200
She said, "whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."
Who is Ruth?
Ruth 1:16-17: But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
200
During the fifth season of Top Chef and as host of The Chew, she might be the most visible Black chef in America. The Nashville native fell in love with food while modeling in Europe and decided to become a chef, blending classic French technique and Southern influence.
Who is Carla Hall?
200
She became the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for a debut film performance for her lead role as Billie Holiday in 1972's Lady Sings the Blues. That nomination also made her the second ever black person nominated for Best Actress, after Dorothy Dandridge's nomination in 1954.
Who is Diana Ross?
300
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
What is Woolworth's?
300
Who is Ruby Bridges?
300
This pop star comes from a very famous musical family and held a recurring role in the 1970's TV sitcom, "Good Times".
Who is Janet Jackson?
300
These are the 6 departments of the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society and the representative colors for each.
What is...
Parent Body (purple and gold)
Y.A.M.S (peach and taupe)
Y's (navy blue and gold)
Buds of Promise (green and white)
Bureau of Supply (pink and white)
Life Member (red and white)
300
She was turned into a pillar of salt.
Who was Lot's wife?
Genesis 19:23-26 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. {24} Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. {25} So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. {26} But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
300
As the host of Delicious Miss Brown, Kardea Brown's cooking is heavily inspired by her Gullah heritage and her dishes are described as ____ cuisine, which means they hail from the area between North Carolina and Florida.
What is Lowcountry?
300
She starred in Julia as a widowed nurse and mother. She won a Golden Globe in 1968 for the role, and made history again as the first black actress to be nominated for an Emmy in 1969.
Who is Diahann Carroll?
400
Before Denzel Washington won an Academy Award (Oscar) for Training Day, there was only one Black Male recipient of the honor. He won in 1963 for Lillies of the Field.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
400
Though she refused to give up her seat in the front of a bus nine months before Rosa Parks, the NAACP used Parks as the face of the Montgomery bus boycott because they believed an unwed mother would not be the best face for the movement.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
400
She was known as the "Queen of Gospel" and described by Harry Belafonte as "the single most powerful black women in the U.S."
Who was Mahalia Jackson?
400
She was the first women ordained as a deacon in the A.M.E. Zion church.
Who is Julia A. J. Foote?
400
I was one of the women along with Mary Magdalene and Mary mother of James who told the disciples about the resurrection of Jesus after visiting the tomb.
Who is Joanna?
Luke 24:10 Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.
400
Zephyr Wright was the personal chef for this U.S. President and told him firsthand of her experiences with discrimination, which is thought to have influenced his signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
400
She is the first Black woman to Win the EGOT (Emmy, 2002 & 2009), (Grammy, 1985), (Academy Award (Oscar), 1990), and a (Tony, 2002).
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
500
"When they go low, we go high"
Who is Michelle Obama?
500
Vice President Kamala Harris is the first Black woman to be elected to national office. She initially sought the Democratic nomination for president. Before her, there were two other black women. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the first.
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
500
The first black-owned publishing company devoted to black gospel music was established by this man, the founder and first president of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.
Who is Thomas Dorsey?
500
Founded in May 1880 at the Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Montgomery, Alabama. We celebrated one 140 years as an organized society in May 2020.
What is the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society?
500
I told people to call me Mara because I became bitter with God.
Who is Naomi?
Ruth 1:20 But she replied to them, “Don’t call me ‘Naomi’! Call me ‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly. 21 I left here full, but the Lord has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me ‘Naomi,’ seeing that the Lord has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?” 22 So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab.
500
She was the first Black woman elected to the Culinary Institute of America board. Sometimes called the “Black Martha Stewart,” her cookbooks, restaurants, home collection line, and weekly TV show made her a lifestyle icon. In 2012, her advocacy for healthy living helped bring culturally diverse food to the Armed Forces.
Who is B. Smith?
500
Sounder was the first film to feature black nominees for both Best Actor and Best Actress. They were
Who is Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson?