African American Music | Famous African American Figures | Fighting for Equality | BIG FACTS! | Quotes |
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Who is Michael Jackson
Who is the top selling black artist of all time?
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Who is Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first black female billionaire?
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When is 1965
What year did Black women receive voting rights in the United States?
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Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Who is Kanye West
"Reach for the stars so if you fall, you land in the clouds" was quoted by this famous artist.
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Black Entertainment Television
What does BET stand for??
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Who is Harriet Tubman
This woman was born a slave and later escaped, using her freedom to take part in the underground railroads in order to rescue about 70 other enslaved people.
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When is 2008
In which year was the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, voted into office?
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What is Texas
Which state was the first to pronounce Juneteenth as a state holiday in 1980?
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Who is Morgan Freeman
Actor who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
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What is Ca$h Money Records
This record label is one of the most successful labels in hip-hop history, featuring artists such as Drake, Lil Wayne, and Nicki Minaj.
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What is Birmingham
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an open letter to the public saying that people have to moral right to break unjust laws in the pursuit for justice from a jail in this southern city.
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Who is Rosa Parks
She is known as the first lady of civil rights and had a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott
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What is Galveston
In which Texas city was emancipation proclaimed?
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Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Person who said "The time is always right to do what is right."
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"What a wonderful world"
Louis Armstrong
Name the song and artist.
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Who is Malcolm X
American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular during the civil rights movement.
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What is Brown V. Board of Education
Supreme Court decision that decreed public schools should be integrated. This case essentially ended segregation in public schools.
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What is the 13th Amendment
Which constitutional amendment formally outlawed slavery?
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Who is Barack Obama
Person who said "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
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'Til earth and heaven ring
FINISH THE SONG LYRICS.
"Lift ev'ry voice and sing..." |
Madam C. J. Walker
She was "the first black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for black women.
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What is Loving V. Virginia
This court case legalized interracial marriage in 1967?
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What is Freedman
What were newly emancipated slaves called?
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Who is Muhammad Ali
Which famous boxer said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
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