Rusk BHM Trivia- Houston Black History

Freedmen's Town, a hub of black culture and growth after the Civil War, was/ is located in Houston's ____neighborhood

• 4th Ward

• Southside

• East Downtown

• North Forest

Visit the _____ to learn more about the first Black professional soldiers in a peacetime army and the contributions of African American service members

• Buffalo Soldier's Museum

• Red Tails Air Force Exhibit

• African American Military Museum

• WWII Museum

3rd Ward's Emancipation Park was purchased by former slaves in 1872 to celebrate ____

• Juneteenth

• Negro History Week

• Black History Month

• the end of legal segregation in the south

____ was elected as the first black mayor of Houston in 1997

• Lee P Brown

• Shelia Jackson

• John Henry Yates

• P. B. S. Pinchback

The Houston boasts having two historically black universities in the area ______ & _____.

• Texas State University

• Prairie View A&M University

• Southern University

• Howard University

Juneteenth is celebrated to commemorate news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching ___.

• Houston, Texas

• Galveston, Texas

• Katy, Texas

• Port Arthur, Louisiana

Who is the first black woman to headline Coachella and the most Grammy award winning artist?

• Anita Baker

• Beyoncé

• Megan Thee Stallion

• Mariah Carey

This genre of music that involves remixing the music by slowing down the tempo and skipping or repeating the beats was invented in Houston in the 1990s.

• Bounce music

• House music

• Chopped and screwed

• Slow-mo Screw

Houston ISD's headquarters is named after _____, the first black school board trustee and 1st black person elected to public office in Texas since Reconstruction

• Hattie Mae White

• Hattie Lee Daniel

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Claudette Colvin

Houston native ___ is the most decorated American gymnast of all time.

• Gabby Douglas

• Simone Biles

• Tonya Harding

• Laurie Hernandez