Education
The first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School ?
Who is Ruby Bridges ?
Tupac Amaru Shakur is known for what ?
What is being a rapper ?
Born Cassius Clay, he is the self-proclaimed greatest of all time in boxing and is know for rhymes like "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
Who is Muhammad Ali ?
Madame CJ Walker is the creator of
What is the world's first hair straightening formula ?
This street became a center for organizing the Nashville sit-ins. It also is the place where 3 HBCUS are located
What is Jefferson Street ?
These institutions were established for African Americans when they weren't allowed at other institutions
What are HBCUs ?
An American author, poet and civil rights activist, rose to prominence with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969.
Who is Maya Angelou ?
Who won a record 11 NBA championship titles during his 13-year career with the Boston Celtics and later became the league’s first Black head coach
Who is Bill Russell ?
This person is said to be the inventor of peanut butter but he actually discovered 300 ways to use peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver ?
In February of 1960, she was appointed to lead the Nashville Student Movement in negotiations to desegregate lunch counters. She also helped organize a boycott of downtown stores by Black Nashvillians. Her and others began to organize sit-ins within restaurants
Who is Diane Nash ?
A group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957.
Who is Little Rock Nine ?
His last words were: 'Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered
Who is Duke Ellington ?
This NBA player is a high school basketball prodigy, owns his own school in Ohio and is the youngest player to accumulate 30,000 points
Who is Lebron James ?
This engineer invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top-selling toy in the United States from 1991 to 1992.
Who is Lonnie Johnson ?
This group impressed Queen Victoria with their voices that she insisted they must be from a " the city of music" and this is how Nashville got the nickname " The Music City"
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers ?
This outlawed segregated education and consequently had tremendous influence on programs of education for African Americans
What is Brown vs Board of Education ?
This theatre was created as a haven for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience through dance
What is Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?
Became the first African American of the modern era to become a Major League Baseball player in 1947, ending 60 years of segregated Negro leagues
Who is Jackie Robinson ?
The purpose of Sarah Boone Invention was "to produce a cheap, simple, convenient, and highly effective device, particularly adapted to be used in ironing the sleeves and bodies of ladies' garments."
What is the ironing board ?
This anthem was first written as a poem by John Rosamond Johnson and later put to music by his brother James Weldon Johnson.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing ?
The group committed itself to organizing nearly two dozen social and educational programs to benefit Black communities across the nation, from free medical clinics to voter registration drives.
Who is The Black Panther Party ?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s
What is The Harlem Renaissance ?
Was the first African American Woman to win a Grand Slam
Who is Althea Gibson ?
Garrett Morgan worked on creating a safer way for us to drive with this invention.
What is the traffic light ?
The materials exhibited here capture the drama of a time when thousands of African-American citizens in Nashville sparked a nonviolent challenge to racial segregation in the city and across the South.
What is the Civil Rights Room at Nashville Public Library ?