This botanist became famous for his agricultural science involving peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans.
Who recently gave a million dollar donation to the NAACP? (Hint: he owns his own film production company)
Who was the slave woman who is believed to have borne Thomas Jefferson at least four children?
Who is the creator of Kwanzaa?
Who was the first African-American Miss America?
This woman’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is the first non-fiction work by an African-American woman to make the best-seller list.
Who was the first African-American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
What was the nickname for the first all-Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, which escorted Allied bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II?
In 1940, I became the first African American actress to win an academy award.
Who was the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated TV talk show?
What name was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City?
Did author Toni Morrison win a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved or The Bluest Eye?
What author gained national recognition with his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain?
B.B. King is one of the greatest blues performers of the 20th century. What do the letters “B.B.” stand for?
What Michael Jackson album won eight Grammy Awards in 1983?
Long Beach, California native and rapper Snoop Dogg shot to fame after being featured on what 1992 album with Dr. Dre?
Who wrote the Broadway choreo-poem play, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf'?
This popular singer and actor started touring with his family’s troupe, the Will Mastin Trio, at age three, and was a member of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack”.
What was the informal system that helped slaves escape to the North during the mid-1800s?
What is the name given to the sea journey slaves made from West Africa to the Americas called?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What was Black History Month originally called?
What group of students were famous for challenging school segregation in the deep south?
Rosa Parks
George Washington Carver
Tyler Perry
Sally Hemings
Dr. Maulana Karenga
Vanessa Williams
Maya Angelou
Colin Powell
Tuskegee Airmen
Hattie McDaniel
Oprah Winfrey (Her show debuted in 1986.)
the Harlem Renaissance (which emerged after World War I)
Beloved (Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye was her first novel.)
James Baldwin, in 1953 (The novel is based partly on his experience as a Pentecostal preacher.)
“Boy from Beale Street” (from his days as a Memphis disk jockey in the 1940s)
Whoopi Goldberg
Thriller
The Chronic
Ntozake Shange
Sammy Davis Jr.
Underground Railroad
the Middle Passage
Brown v. Board
Negro History Week
The Little Rock Nine
