Rocklin Black History Month

What great American music form was pioneered by greats such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis?

Black American leaders joined together to form the NAACP on February 12, 1909. Why did they choose this date?

How many missions did Harriet Tubman personally carry out to rescue enslaved people through the Underground Railroad?

Though found unconstitutional in 1967, when and where was the last law against interracial marriage struck down?

In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to serve in what position?

Name the first commercially successful hip hop song (1979), which began with the lyrics, "I said a hip, hop, the hippie"

What talented poet and civil rights activist wrote "And Still I Rise"?

Elijah McCoy was a great inventor who inspired the saying "the Real McCoy". Saying "give me the Real McCoy" means....

The highly successful business district known as "Black Wall Street" was found in what city?

Dr. Maulana Karenga founded Kwanzaa in 1966 to empower the Black community. Which is NOT one of its 7 principles?

The American Ballet Theater has never had a Black woman as principal dancer.

Civil Rights activist Ruby Nell Bridges is most famous for being the...

Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court Justice, argued what famous case when he was a lawyer for the NAACP?

Kamala Harris is the first woman, first Black person, and first Asian-American to serve as Vice President.

What Black leader said, "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom"?

Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win Best Actor in 1963. Who became the second to do so, 38 years later?

What revolutionary party was formed in Oakland in 1966, originally in order to combat acts of police brutality?

Who won 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, humiliating the Nazi regime and their notion of the "Master Race".

Mae Jemison, a NASA astronaut, was the first black woman in space. What does NASA stand for?

Simone Biles has won more Olympic medals than any other American gymnast.