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This singer is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin?
He delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Known as the "Moses of her people," she was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1957 event involved nine African American students integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under federal protection.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
He broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This artist’s 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Who was the movie dreamgirls inspired by?
This NAACP Chief Counsel, who argued the case, later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This 1960 protest involved students sitting at segregated lunch counters to demand service.
What are the Greensboro sit-ins?
This tennis legend won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, breaking countless records.
Who is Serena Williams?
This singer helped break racial barriers on the radio and TV with hits like What’s Love Got to Do With It.
Who is Tina Turner?
This Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment was heavily shaped by Black political organizing but later weakened by Supreme Court rulings
What is the 14th Amendment
This NASA mathematician helped calculate trajectories for John Glenn’s orbit around Earth.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This 1920s movement celebrated African American culture, art, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Known as “His Airness,” he led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in the 1990s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
He was a jazz trumpeter and singer famous for his improvisational skill and songs like What a Wonderful World.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
What was the event called when, in 1921, one of the wealthiest Black communities, known as "Black Wall Street" in the U.S. was destroyed?
What is Tulsa Race Massacre?
This civil rights leader founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the 1920s.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
These laws enforced racial segregation and restricted African Americans’ rights after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This track and field athlete won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This singer-songwriter was a key figure in the 1960s soul movement and wrote I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Who is Marvin Gaye?
This 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, led by a preacher, resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people and stricter slave codes afterward
Who is Nate Turners Rebellion?
She was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The first African American inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1967).
Who is Marion Motley?