Black History Review #1

Author of Brown Girl Dreaming

“I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter... Our lives matter.”

What Supreme Court case ruled racial segregation legal and Constitutionally protected?

In what year was the Stono Rebellion held?

What amendment to the Constitution made the use of poll taxes in elections illegal?

Who was the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice?

An abolitionist and anti-slavery activist who served as a writer for Freedom’s Journal.

What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?

Who was the first Black woman in America to earn one million dollars?

This five-time NBA MVP won 11 league championships and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

This composer and bandleader led the first band to play jazz at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.

Quotes: “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I’d be crunched in to other people’s fantasy for me and eaten alive”

The activist and WWII Vet who was murdered in front of his home for registering Black people to vote in Mississippi.

In what year was the first National Black Political Convention held?

Mount Zion Cemetery is recognized a National Historic Site and & served this city’s African American population

Who was the first Black woman to serve as mayor of a major US city?

What is the name of the oldest known holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States?

This Washington, D.C. school was one of the five schools represented in the Brown versus Board of Education.

Name that Movie

Quotes: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

On 12,/ 15/ 2021, the juvenile court records of her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up a seat were expunged following

This race massacre occurred in 1919 lasted 13 days with 38 people dead and at least 1,000 Black families homeless.

Who lost her teaching job due for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked “Whites Only”?

Who was the first Black American head coach to win the Super Bowl?

What current politician, lawyer, and author launched a voter protect initiative in 2020 called “Fair Fight”?

This athlete gained became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games.

The commander of the World War II military group known as the Tuskegee Airmen

A research chemist and pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

Who invented the laser cataract surgery?

Who was the first Black US Senator?

n what year was the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama bombed?

In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?

Her show, Insecure helped change the perception of the South Los Angeles highlighting Black businesses and landmarks.

He founded the Algebra Project, an education program which helped the next phase of the civil rights struggle

His findings include the prediction of a solar eclipse, publishing their almanac, and the surveying of Washington, DC.

Author of Between the World and Me

Who wrote Clotel, or The President’s Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1853?

Who invented the modern-day home video system?

Who was the first Black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping company