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

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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?

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

This popular practice preyed on the fears of white people by inducing homeowners to sell quickly and often at a loss to them by appealing to fears of depressed home values as minorities moved into neighborhoods. Then, the house would be resold at a higher price. This practice was outlawed in 1968 with the passage of the Fair Housing Act.

Term coined by feminist scholar, Moya Bailey, which describes a specific form of bias and discrimination experienced by Black women at the intersection of race and gender. Stereotypes include the sassy Black woman, the angry Black woman, the strong Black woman and the overly sexual Black woman.

This term describes prejudice, attitudes, beliefs, stereotyping, discrimination directed at people of African descent; rooted in their unique history of enslavement and colonization and deeply embedded in American institutions.

These towns are all white neighborhoods, municipalities in the US that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding nonwhites via combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation and violence. These towns often displayed signs that warned not to be in town when the sun goes down. These towns still exist today.

From the disguised language used by enslaved Africans to conceal their conversations to the lyrics of today’s rap music, this form of expression has been a true cultural and linguistic force in contemporary society has left its mark on the popular culture we participate in, sliding seamlessly into the language of art, music, poetry, storytelling, and social media.

After the Civil War, the former Confederate states passed laws intended to restrict the rights of African Americans. The laws punished forced freedmen to sign labor contracts and blocked their right to vote. Violators were subject to arrest, jail and hard labor for small infractions. These laws helped spur convict leasing.

This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as “facilities were equal”.

In May 1851, she gave her most famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman” which discussed the intersection of race and gender where bias play a role.

This abolitionist and publisher of the North Star ran a station of the Underground Railroad in Rochester. He owned a home in Washington, DC. that serves as a historic landmark.

In 1960, she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, LA. She was six years old. Today, she is 66.

An intentionally planned powerful Black community in Tulsa Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as one of the prosperous African American communities in the United States.

She was the unwitting source of the immortalized human cell line which became one of the most important medical research to present date. Johns Hopkins Hospital took cancer cells from her without her consent and neither she nor her family was ever compensated for their extraction or use. There are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells today.

This county is the largest and most affluent African American county in the United States.

This man invented the three-position traffic light which was patented in 1923. He also invented the hooded gas mask which was used in disaster rescue.

He was known as the Stargazer because he studied the stars, the weather and animal science. He was the first Black person to receive a presidential appointment and 1791, he laid out the plans for the development of the city Washington, DC.

This most famous Black woman of her time served as an investigative journalist and early civil rights leader. In 1894, she documented the horror of lynching in the United States in her book, The Red Record. She was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

This voting rights activist lost the Georgia Gubernatorial race after an election marked by voter suppression. She founded Fair Fight Action and has since been credited with boosting historic voter turnout in the 2020 election. She has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

The first African American woman elected to the US Senate and the first to be on the ballot as a candidate for President.