Educational Resource-Black Experience-Black American History

About Black Quest-The Griot©

Black Quest-The Griot© is an educational and heritage game that introduces and reinforces the experiences and contributions of the African American in an exciting, interactive and insightful CD-ROM format. The game consists of a database of over 1,200 Black history entries and provides a comprehensive look into the "Black Experience" in the United States covering such areas as Slavery, the Revolutionary War, Reconstruction, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, Black inventions, arts, sports and more. Also, integrated into the Black Quest learning experience is a "Picture Gallery" of an on-going slide show of noteworthy African American images. This educational and heritage game on African American history and culture captures, celebrates and preserves the legacy of the African American experience.

All questions in Black Quest-The Griot© are stated in a multiple-choice format that enables players to learn as they play the game without readily knowing the answers to the questions. By playing this game, the participant(s) will gain a greater insight, understanding and knowledge regarding African American heritage. At the end of each set, the answers to missed questions can be reviewed. Challenge yourself and others repeatedly to achieve a higher score and master facts of the tremendous developments, achievements and contributions of African Americans. Black Quest-The Griot© can serve as an essential medium to develop a strong cultural identity that is crucial to the positive growth and development of the African American individual, family and community.

The inspiration for Black Quest-The Griot© is derived from the tradition of the African "griot". In Western Africa, the griot is a storyteller that passes historical information about a village or family from generation to generation.

In your journey with Black Quest-The Griot©, you will learn and become familiar
with African American facts and information such as the following:

Where in the United States Constitution can you find the three- fifths clause that indicated a slave (black man) can only be counted as three- fifths of a white man?

Infantry - Company A in St. Louis, thereby becoming the only known female Buffalo Soldier?

Who was the first woman to be named to the Cabinet of a U.S. President?

Who was the main organizer of the first March on Washington movement?

In 1966, he became the first African American Major League Baseball umpire.

Who was the first woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics?

He became a Civil War hero by clandestinely sailing an armed Confederate steamer out of Charleston Harbor (a Confederate stronghold) and delivering it to the Union Navy.