Juneteenth

With $800 borrowed from his family, this songwriter founded Motown Records .

• Joe Jackson

• Smokey Robinson

• Berry Gordy Jr.

• Bobby Taylor

This staple item can be found in many Black households and sometimes in Beyonce’s bag.

• Tea

• Purple Drank

• Ranch

• Hot sauce

These institutions of higher learning were established after slavery when Blacks were prohibited from attending or strict quotas limited admissions into predominantly white institutions. There are 101 of these in the United States today and they produce the most Black doctors and engineers in the country.

• The Black Panthers

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• Fraternerties

Name one point in the 10-point Program for the Black Panther Party.

• Freedom

• Full Employment

• An End to robbery of capitalists in the Black community,

• End to Police Brutality

Written by James Weldon Johnson, this song is known as the Negro National Anthem.

• Knuck If You Buck

• Lift Every Voice and Sing

• Til Earth & Heaven Ring

“Human computers” Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson overcame discrimination as Black women while working at NASA during the space race, inspired this 2016 film.

• Hidden Figures

• Space Jam

• The Proud Family

This indispensable travel guide was used during segregation and Jim Crow to avoid potentially embarrassing moments and danger. It directed Black travelers to restaurants, beauty shops, boarding houses and services while on vacation or trips in the United States. Over 15,000 copies were sold per edition in its time of 1936-1964.

• The Green Book

• The Negro Travelers’ Green Book/

• The Negro Motorist Green Book

• The Book

The first African American female millionaire due to her revolutionary black hair products.

• Oprah

• Madame CJ Walker

• Sojourner Truth

Lorraine Hansberry, an American playwright was responsible for the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. What was the name of this play?

• Lost Ones

• House on the Hill

• Raisin in the Sun

This term describes the traumatic journey taken by kidnapped and captured Africans from Western African to the Caribbean and the Americas.

• The Middle Passage

• The Struggle

• Amistad