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Who was the first African American Woman to host her own television show?
Oprah Winfrey
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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
100
Is Black History Month celebrated in Africa?
FALSE
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What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Who is the first African American to be elected President of the United States?
Barack Obama
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Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
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Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame in 1987?
Aretha Franklin
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Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party?
Bobby Seale, Huey P Newton
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Who was the first African American to go into space?
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
200
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
1619
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Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
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What year was black history month officially recognized?
1976
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Who was the first African American to receive a US Patent?
Thomas L. Jennings
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Who was the first African American to become a billionaire?
Robert L Johnson
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Who was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
Alice Coachman
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Who was the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives?
Shirley Chisholm
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Who was the creator of NAAPID (Nation African American Parent Involvement Day)?
Joseph Dulin
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Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Toni Morrison
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Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
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What was the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921?
Black Wall Street
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Who was the first African American to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel
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Which Ivy League college was the first to employ an African American as president?
Brown
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What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?
Virginia
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Who is considered the "father" of Black History Month?
Carter G Woodson
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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
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Booker T. Washington