Local Black History
First Black Public HBCU in Georgia
What is Savannah State University
The year Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc, was founded
What is 1914
The year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks
The colors that represent Black History Month.
What is red, green, black and yellow.
First African American Woman to be mayor of Savannah
Who is Mayor Edna Jackson
Made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts
Who is George Washington Carver
The first Black vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris
The self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay
Who is Muhammad Ali
Discrimination against African Americans continued after Reconstruction
What is segregation
67th Mayor of Savannah
Who is Mayor Van Johnson
First African American Rhode Scholar
Alan Leroy Locke
Ahe first African American golf champion to tour the PGA circuit
Who is Tiger Woods
Ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?
Who is Beyonce' Knowles-Carter
Helped 300 slaves escape to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman
Founder of Zeta Phi Beta founder attended Savannah State College
Who is Fannie Pattie Watts
Wrote “Lift Every Voice & Sing” aka the Negro National Anthem?
James Weldon Johnson
The first African-American to graduate from Harvard?
Who is Richard Theodore Greener
Fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
Laws created a system of legal segregation are called what
What is Jim Crow Laws
First Black Eye Doctor is Savannah
Who is J. Alphonso Dandy
Author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Who is Toni Morrison
Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
The first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products
Who is Madame CJ Walker
Founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who is W.E.B. DuBois