BLACK HISTORY 1
In 1897, An organization called the American Negro Academy started under whose leadership?
Alexander Crummell
What abolitionist became the first female African American newspaper editor in North American when she editors the Provincial Freeman in1853?
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Who was the famous African American newspaper writer in the early 1900s who led an anti-lynching campaign?
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Shirley Ann Jackson, the first black women to earn a Ph.D from MIT, mastered in what subject?
Nuclear Physics
Who was the first African American to attend the U.S. Naval Academy?
John Henry Conyers
What revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization most commonly associated with the term “Black Power”?
The Black Panther Party
What was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson?
Who was the only accredited African American war correspondent in World War I?
Ralph Waldo Tyler
Who became the first female AND first black principal in the Pittsburgh Public School District when she took over at Fifth Avenue High School in1968?
Helen S. Faison
What was the name of the first newspaper of the first newspaper published by John B. Russwurm in 1827, written by and for African Americans?
Freedom’s Journal
What is the name of the monthly publication that is published be the NAACP?
The Crisis
Who was the first African American to appear on the cover of Life Magazine?
Billy Eckstine
What is the name of the nation’s first black college?
Lincoln University
What famous African Americans journalist is known for his 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News program 60 Mintues?
Ed Bradley
What was the name of the newspaper published by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, the first newspaper published by and for African American women?
Women‘s Era
Who was a reporter for the New York Post for 35 years and was regarded as journalism’s “Father of Minorities”?
Ted Poston
What school in Arkansas was desegregated by local NAACP leader Daisy Bated and the “Little Rock nine “in 1957?
Little Rock Central High School
What magazine is known as “The magazine of today Black Women“
Essence
What editor of The New York Age was known as the “Dean of the Negro Newspaperman”?
Timothy Thomas Fortune
On January 3, 1964, who did Time magazine name as the first African American “,an of the Year”?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1870, who became the first African American to receive a degree from Harvard college?
Richard Greener