TTA Black History Bowl

Name the West African city that was part of the Mali and Songhay empires that flourished from about the 12th century through the 16th century.

Timbuktu

On Janurary 1, 1956, this African nation gained its independence from European colonialism

Ghana

The oldest human-like fossils have been found in this East African Country

Ethiopia

Egyptian President Nassar, nationalized this thorough way that causes shockwaves throughout the West?

Suez Canal

Credited with inventing the first patented traffic signal and the gas mask

Garret Morgan

He patented the pencil sharpener

Who was J. L. Love?

Started the idea of a blood bank

Charles R. Drew

Before entering the space program in 1987, Mae worked in Sierrra Leone, African for two years in what capacity?

Medical Doctor

He was the first person to follow explicitly scientific methods in 1843 in the conversion of cane juice to crystallized sugar?

Norbert Rellieux

In 1939, she was the first African American singer to perform at the Lincoln Memorial

Who was Marian Anderson

In 1957, he formed this African American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey