Jewels: Advanced Black History

He developed many products from peanuts...

Name that movie...

an abolitionist who wrote newspapers called North Star - wrote a famous narrative of his life...

Which popular rap artist’s real name is Nayvadius Wilburn?

Name that show...

Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

a member of the Nation of Islam for many years of his life, his mother was a Seventh-day Adventist and raised him in the

'Unbought and Unbossed' - politician, educator, and author. In 1968 - the first black woman elected to the US Congress

Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870. Learn more

SNCC member Stokely Carmichael was instrumental in forming the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. What was

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

What was the first historically black college in America?

Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?

As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes.

In 1851, gave a famous extemporaneous speech "Ain't I a woman?" which supported equal rights for blacks and women

What is the name of this prominent activist?

What does NAACP stand for?

In 1953, the song “Hound Dog” was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley’s 1956 version.

Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?

brutally murdered - his mother demanded an open casket - his death led to the American Civil Rights movement

In what year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat?

Hattie McDaniel was the second Black women to receive an Academy Award

Where was Malcolm X killed?

Ella Baker was...?

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

he was a fighter for the civil rights and he began the NAACP...

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

was a pioneering African-American choreographer

1926 was the official year Black History Month was established...

first African American to win the Noble Prize in literature

What court case doctrines Jim Crows Law "separate by equal"

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?