Question: He was an American choreographer and activist who founded his own dance Theater in New York in 1958.
Answer: Who is Alvin Ailey?
Question: This type of dancing is an athletic style of street dance, started in the 1970s in New York.
Answer: What is Break Dancing or Breaking?
Question: An originator of this stye of music, Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.
Answer: What is the big band jazz style?
Question: In this type of dance limb movements are restricted or considered irrelevant.
Answer: What is step dancing?
Question: In addition to his award-winning hip-hop albums, he is known for an array of successful business interests, as well as his marriage to the singer of "Lemonade".
Answer: Who is Jay-Z
Philadelphia Athletes and Entertainers
Question: While with the Packers, this Philadelphia-raised athlete was a member of all five of Vince Lombardi's NFL Championship teams and played in Super Bowls I and II. Answer: Who is Herb Adderly?
Question: Born in Philadelphia, she is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach and carried the US flag in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Answer: Who is Dawn Staley?
Question: Recognized as one of the 50 greatest NBA players of all time, he spent his entire career with the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers. Answer: Who is Hal Greer?
Question: He gained famed for shows like "I Spy", "Fat Albert" and a show named after him. Answer: Who is Bill Cosby?
Question: Anthony Davis composed an opera based on this Civil Rights icon. Answer: Who is Malcolm X?
Female Political Figures and Scientists
Question: Jane Goodall is known for living amongst these animals in Tanzania. Answer: What are chimpanzees?
Question: Eva Peron, was a first lady for this country, where she fought for women's rights and the rights of the poor. Answer: What is Argentina?
Question: She is the first woman to run for President on a major party's ticket. Answer: Who is Hillary Clinton?
Question: In 1983, this astronaut and astrophysicist became the first woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Answer: Who is Sally Ride?
Question:In 1938 she was elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature, making her the first African American female legislator in the U.S. Answer: Who is Crystal Bird Fauset?
Astronomy
Question: He is an African-American sculptor and former pilot, who was the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. Answer: Who is Ed Dwight?
Question:This May 2018, this astronaut has been assigned her first space flight on Expedition 56/57. Answer: Who is Jeanette Epps?
Question:
He became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space.
Answer: Who is Guion (Guy) Bluford?
Question: Frederick Gregory served in this role for NASA in 2005. Answer: What is Acting Administrator 2005?
Question: He was an African-American scientist and astronomer, notable for participating in the world's first lunar radar echo experiments with Project Diana. Answer: Who is Walter McAfee?
Politics
Question: This Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Answer: What is the 15th Amendment?
Question: She was an American lawyer and judge, and the first Black U.S.delegate appointed to the United Nations. Answer: Who is Edith Sampson?
Question: She was probably the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States; shepublished the California Eagle from 1912 until 1951. Answer: Who is Charlotta Bass?
Question:Carol Moseley Braun became the first African-American woman to be elected to this government position in 1992. Answer: What is the U.S. Senate?
Question: She was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.