Black History
Where was MLK born?
What is ATL Georgia
This sorority and fraternity are the only constitutionally bound organizations in the Divine Nine?
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
What city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?
The Bronx
Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American to win baseball's Most Valuable Player award?
Jackie Robinson
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of education
Membership in a sorority or fraternity is for college kids... or is it? For how long after joining is a person typically considered a member in a Greek-letter organization?
Lifetime
In 1953, the song “Hound Dog” was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley’s 1956 version
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest ranking military officer, the first African American, and the youngest man to hold this post?
What is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Willie O'Rhee was the first Black player in the National Hockey League. On what team did he play?
The Boston Bruins
Which of these influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison
May 10, 1930
She won season three of American Idoll
Who is Fantasia Barrino
What African American union organizer helped open the door for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination?
Philip Randolph
In the 1996 Olympic Games, who became the first athlete to win both the 200-and-400 meter races?
Michael Johnson
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
This First Black woman elected to the United States Congress; First Black candidate for a major party’s nomination for President of the United States. Who is she and what sorority?
Shirley Chisholm
Whose 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers and was seen as an important moment in the struggle for civil rights?
Marian Anderson
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization?
Ida B. Wells
Where is the Negro League Baseball Museum?
Kansas City, Missouri
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
Department store seamstress
Acclaimed author, anthropologist, and filmmaker frequently cited as one of the pre-eminent writers of 20th century African American literature. Who is she and what sorority?
Zora Neale Hurston
This R&B/soul singer/songwriter first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970's before he started his successful solo career.
Who is Teddy Pendagrass?
What African American revolutionary led colonial forces during the Boston Massacre in March 5, 1770, becoming “the first to defy, and the first to die"?
Crispus Attucks
The movie When We Were Kings depicts the life of this heavyweight champion.
Muhammad Ali