Geoffrey Fletcher won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for this 2009 movie.

This policy sought to end discriminatory practices by mandating preferential hiring procedures for minorities and women.

Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason?

Oliver Cromwell was a well-known freedom fighter in what war?

After Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, who took over leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

"I am Somebody" was coined by this civil rights activist.

A. L. Lewis founded this beach, a vacation destination for African Americans during segregation, on Amelia Island in Nassau County.

George Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera company?

African Americans were able to enlist in the United States Navy in what year?

After over forty years, who became the second black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

"Dy-No-Mite!" was a catchphrase used by James Carter, Jr.'s character JJ from this 1970s sitcom?

A. Miles patented this mechanical device used in many office buildings and skyscrapers.

Gordon Parks was voted "Photographer of the Year" in 1960 while working for what popular magazine?

After a trip to Mecca in 1964, which Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

After running three Olympic gold medals in 1960, Wilma Rudolph was presented with which award?

"Jumping the Broom" was sometimes done by slaves on for this occasion.

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published this periodical in 1831.

Inventor G. F. Grant received a patent in 1889 for what sports item?

After an early childhood spent in Barbados and a successful career as a teacher, who was elected to the New York Assembly, becoming the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, where she worked fro 13 years?

After slavery was abolished, she that fought for Black suffrage and helped former slaves find homes and jobs.

"Ma" Rainey taught this singer how to sing the blues.

Actor Michael Dorn played this Klingon in the Star Trek franchise.

G. T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in 1892?

After being denied service at a Louisville, Kentucky lunch counter, which heavy weight fighter threw his Olympic medal in the river in protest?

Albert Y. Garner received a patent for this invention used to help save lives.