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This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “Dream Deferred.”
Who is Langston Hughes
He is widely known as the “father of Black psychology” and helped found the Association of Black Psychologists.
Who is Dr. Joseph L. White
This 1863 executive order declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This woman became the first Black Female self-made millionaire by marketing beauty products.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
CSUN and other universities have been designated with this status recognizing meaningful progress in supporting Black student success.
What is a Black-Serving Institution (BSI)
She is known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin
This clinical social worker developed the theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Who is Dr. Joy DeGruy
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education
Famous for his invention for the oil-drip cup that was so amazing it coined the phrase "The Real McCoy."
Who is Elijah McCoy
In the 1960s, student activists occupied campus buildings and helped create ethnic studies departments — an event later remembered as this.
What is the Storm at Valley State protests
This filmmaker directed Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.
Who is Spike Lee
He was the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology and founded Howard University’s psychology department.
Who is Dr. Francis Cecil Sumner
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
He built America's first fully functioning clock from wood in 1753. Which then went on to be mass produced by others.
Who is Benjamin Banneker
This house on campus was created by Black students as a space for community, dialogue, and Afrocentric culture.
What is the Black House
This art movement celebrated Black culture in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This framework emphasizes African-centered values and cultural context in therapy and psychological research.
What is Afrocentric psychology
This 1965 act outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act
He unintentionally created one of America's greatest snacks in the summer on 1853 the potato chip.
Who is George Crum
In addition to the Black House, this council brings together departments across campus in solidarity and community support for Black students.
What is the Black Student Success Council
This television host became the first Black woman billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
This clinical psychologist and author focuses on Black women’s mental health and therapy accessibility.
Who is Dr. Thema Bryant
He was the first Black president of the United States, elected in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama
This inventor filed a patent in 1966 for the first-ever home security system after wanting to increase her own house’s security in her Queens, New York, neighborhood.
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown
This CSUN alum and activist is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and centers healing justice in their work.
Who is Patrisse Cullors?