400 Years
The first enslaved Africans were forced to this US state.
What is Virginia?
I am the first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
I am the only player in the basketball league history to have two jersey numbers retired with the same team.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
I am the current mayor of Newark whose father is a well-known African-American poet.
Who is Ras Baraka?
I am the iconic civil rights leader known for my “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
Enslaved Africans were forced to America from this African country.
This movement was created in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?
I am the artist that has the highest number of Grammy wins in one night.
Who is Michael Jackson.
I am the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history and wrote the poem "Change Sings."
Who is Amanda Gorman?
I am known for my role in the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to give up my seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This Negro Spiritual talks about escaping slavery by traveling through water.
What is Wade in the Water?
I am the first Black woman in outer space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
LeBron James has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, L. A Lakers and _______.
What is the Miami Heat?
I am the former First Lady that wrote the book "Becoming."
I was the first Black student to attend a previously all-white school in New Orleans in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
We were the individuals of all races that fought against slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
This holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States and the freedom of all people, regardless of race. It's also a day to recognize the ongoing fight against racism.
What is Juneteenth?
Chadwick Boseman played this Marvel character that landed two of its own films.
Who is the Black Panther.
Lonnie Green - the Black American who was an aerospace engineer for NASA - invented this popular toy.
What is the super soaker?
I am the first Black Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
I am the Black American woman who became the first woman to sue for my freedom in court and won my case, setting an important legal precedent in Massachusetts in 1781?
Who is Elizabeth Freeman?
I am the first African American vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This music genre, characterized by its use of turntables and sampling, was founded in Black American communities in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s?
What is hip hop?
I am the agricultural scientist who created more than 500 new products from peanuts and sweet potatoes, including soap, paint and cooking oils.
Who is George Washington Carver?
I am the teenager known as the first African American to refuse to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama (before Rosa Parks’ more famous refusal)
Who is Claudette Colvin?