History
Who were the first all black military pilots in the United States?
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad
Which amendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th amendment
Who delivered the speech "Ain't I Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
What is 1619
In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
What is the Nation of Islam
This landmark case desegregated public schools
What is Brown vs Board of Education
Who helped secure the freedom of at least 300 slaves and served as a spy and scout for the Union Army?
Who is Harriet Tubman
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
What is Woolworth's
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are the founders of this organization?
Who are the Black Panthers
In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called?
What is Jim Crow
She is the first published African American poet (Hint: she was also a slave)
Who is Phillis Wheatley
What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who was the first black woman elected to Congress? She is also the first woman to run for U. S. President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The 15th Amendment granted African-Americans the right to______.
What is vote
Who was first woman of color to go into space on the shuttle Endeavor in 1992?
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
Who was the first African-American millionaire?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), was from where?
Where is Jamaica?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Who became the first African American female billionaire?
Who is Oprah Winfrey