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According to Google, her performance at Cochella was the most searched
Who is Beyonce Knowles
She was the first African American female millionaire with her own black hair care products
Madame C.J. Walker
He was a prominent minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.
What is Hip-hop/rap?
This boxer made history in the 20th century fighting for his rights
Muhammad Ali
According to Google, this is the most searched female poet
Who is Maya Angelou?
Who created and founded the NAACP?
W.E.B Du Bois
What President signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
Expressed in songs whose verses lament injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money
What is the Blues?
First African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
According to Google, she is the most searched gymnast
Who is Simone Biles?
The first African American women to obtain a pilot's license and fly a plane, she's known as a pioneer in aviation
Bessie Coleman
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
American music that originated in New Orleans circa 1900 characterized by strong, prominent meter, improvisation, distinctive tone colors & performance techniques, and dotted or syncopated rhythmic patterns.
What is Jazz?
This was the movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
The Great Migration
According to Google, he is the most searched athlete
Who is Lebron James?
He was a Mathematician, Astronomer, etc; but his greatest achievements were helping with the building and construction of D.C and the White House
Benjamin Banneker
What did African Americans gain from the 15th Amendment?
The Right to Vote
Consists of Funk Motown Neo-Soul Quiet Storm Soul
What is R&B?
These were known as a series of routes which slaves ships used to transport slaves from West Africa to the Americas
The Middle Passage
According to Google, this is the most searched movement
What is the Civil Right Movement?
He was a Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University and he was the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins
Ben Carson
This Supreme Court decision said that segregated public schools were not really equal and should be integrated
Brown v. Board of Education
Created by Berry Gordy and artist consists of the Marveletts,The Commodores, The Jackson 5, Rick James and Stevie Wonder
What is Motown?
The first person to integrate public school
Who is Rudy Bridges?