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What is the SPINGARN MEDAL?
This gold medal is awarded yearly to African Americans for the highest achievements in their field.
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What is "SIR CHARLES?"
This is Charles Barkley's nickname.
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What is ...WE ARE FREE AT LAST?
This is the last line of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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What is THE BLUEBELLS?
This is the name of the group with whom Patti LaBelle sang with in the early 1960s.
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What is I WILL NOT LET YOU FAIL?
This is the promise teacher Marva Collins made to every student in her Westside Preparatory School in Chicago.
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What is HE SAW A CAR COLLIDE WITH A HORSE AND CARRIAGE?
This inspired Garrett Morgan to invent the traffic light.
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What is J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON or ROSAMOND JOHNSON?
This is the name of James W. Johnson's brother.
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What is ROYAL ICE CREAM PARLOUR?
This is the name of the business where the 1960 sit-in in Durham, North Carolina was held.
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What is the NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION?
This is the name of the medical association that was founded by Black doctors in 1895.
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What is ELDRICK?
This is Tiger Woods's given first name.
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What is SCHOMBERG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE?
This institution houses the largest collection of materials concerning people of African descent.
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What is THE FREEING OF SLAVES IN TEXAS?
Juneteenth is this.
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What is JACKIE MABLEY?
This is the name of the female comic known as "Moms?"
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What is THE CRISIS?
This is the name of the NAACP journal DuBois was editor for.
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Who is A. PHILIP RANDOLPH?
This labor activist founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which initiated the 1963 March on Washington.
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What is the GUITAR?
Jimi Hendrix played this instrument.
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What is GULLAH?
This is the language spoken by the people in the Sea Islands.
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What is MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE?
This is the name of the first all-Black medical school.
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What is the HARLEM RENAISSANCE?
This is the name of cultural rebirth that took place after World War I in Harlem.
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What is MITCHELL V. US INTERSTATE COMPANY ACT?
This landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Black people.
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Who is MAYA ANGELOU?
This internationally known poet read her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at the inauguration of William Clinton.
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What is IMANI (FAITH)?
The last day of Kwanzaa is known as this.
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What is BEATRICE?
This is the name of the first billion-dollar company owned by a Black person
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What is CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY?
This is the oldest historically Black college.
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What is the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
This law forbade slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory.
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