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13 time Grammy award winner including for “i”, “Alright,” and “HUMBLE." Broke out as an artist with his concept album, Section.80, which features lyrical themes on the 1980s crack epidemic, racism, and medication tolerance.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
A Harlem Renaissance musician, known for the song “Take the A Train." This person gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Created a talk-show which became the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. The richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the only African American billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
At age 6, became the first African-American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960. Also portrayed in a famous Norman Rockwell painting being escorted by US Marshalls.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
A private federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, the university has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. Famous graduates include Toni Morrison, Elijah Cummings, and current Vice President Kamala Harris.
What is Howard University?
1999 Philadelphia Inquirer player of the year in basketball and 2011 inductee to Big 5 Hall of Fame.
Who is Dean Stacey Smalls?
A famous jazz club in Harlem that paved the way for other public places to integrate. Duke Ellington became well known for playing here.
What is Cotton Club?
Known as the “Queen of Soul,” famous songs include R.E.S.P.E.C.T. and A Natural Woman.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The founder of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and one of the original Freedom Riders, this person served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He helped lead 'March on Washington' and 'March from Selma to Montgomery.' In an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked the marchers.
Who is John Lewis?
A public state-related historically black university near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and was the United States' first degree-granting HBCU. Famous graduate include Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Langston Hughes.
What is Lincoln University?
A mathematician for NASA. Responsible for calculating John Glenn’s orbital mission, the first US space flight with a crew.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
A writer and anthropologist. She is known for portraying racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. A famous work of hers is “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
A 1996 graduate of Lower Merion HS, he was one of the few to enter the NBA as a first round draft pick without attending college when the Los Angeles Laker drafted him 13th overall.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
An African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, this group is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
A private historically black men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia founded by William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to the liberation of enslaved African-Americans following the American Civil War. Famous graduates include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee, Raphael Warnick, and Samuel L. Jackson.
What is Morehouse College?
This man was killed during the Boston Massacre. He is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A Harlem Renaissance singer known as “The Empress of the Blues” due to being the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.
Who is Bessie Smith?
The first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. Halle Berry portrayed her in a titular role for a 1999 movie.
Who is Dorothy Dandrige?
The legislation responsible for making segregation illegal in public places and bans discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A public historically black university in Grambling, Louisiana. The university is home of the Eddie G. Robinson Museum and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The athletic teams, the Tigers, compete in Division I of the NCAA. Famous football coach Eddie Robinson spent 56 coaching here. Famous alumni include quarterback Doug Williams.
What is Grambling State University?
In 1884, he became the first African American professional baseball player when he played minor league baseball for the Toledo Blue Stockings. After he was released in 1889, there was a 60 year gap until the next African American, Jackie Walker, began playing professionally.
Who is Moses Fleetwood Walker?
A Harlem Renaissance artist, best known for his series, “The Migration of the Negro” during the Great Migration.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
An American writer and activist whose semi-autobiographical novel, “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” was published in 1953. Decades later, Time Magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
Who is James Baldwin?
Legislation that outlaws practices that keep African American people from voting.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama founded by Booker T. Washington, who served as the first principal back before the school became a university. The university was home to scientist George Washington Carver and to World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
What is Tuskegee Institute?