Black Excellence History Bowl, Part 1

The afro hair style emerged in the 90s

The Black Panther party was created on October 15, 1966.

Who was the first woman that refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus in Montgomery Alabama?

Which black actor opened the first black owned movie studio in Atlanta?

Which famous civil rights leader said this quote: "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Who was responsible for inventing the modern home TV security system?

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams is known for this:

Which Spike Lee Film advocates for social justice?

Which group is the highest selling female musical group, coming in second place to the Spice Girls?

John Singleton also wrote Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Shaft, and Babyboy.

Madame CJ Walker invented a skin care line for people with dry skin.

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time" - 44th United States President

Who was the first African American woman to create and produce a Top 10 network series? Hint: she wrote Greys Anatomy.

Charles Richard Drew invented America's first major blood bank

Brown vs Board of Education prohibited segregation in public schools.

Harry Pace was the first black person to own and operate a record company.

Black History Week was first celebrated in 1926. When was Black History Month celebrated for the first time?

Barack Obama was the first African American presidential candidate to run for the presidency.

Select the pillar of hiphop that's missing from the list: break dancing, MCing, graffitti, DJ'ing and ___________?

Which singer/songwriter starred in the 1997 Cinderella remake?

Micheal B Jordan did not play the villain Killmonger in the Black Panther movie

Known as a human computer while working for NASA, she was the first person featured on our FaceBook page last week.

Who was the first Black artist to popularize "rock n roll" electric guitar to mainstream America?

Who played T'Challa in the Marvel film Black Panther?

This person was 22 when he wrote "Boyz N' the Hood" which earned him an Academy Award nomination.