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An opera by composer/ pianist Anthony Davis which premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986.
What is The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Fisk University was established in Nashville, TN as a liberal arts institution in this year.
What is 1865?
She became the first African American woman to win the prestigious Wimbledon singles title.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This war led Colin Powell to conclude that an army should not enter combat unless it had a clear objective.
What is the Vietnam War?
On February 2, 1948, this person sent Congress a special message urging the adoption of a Civil Rights program, including the creation of a fair employment practices commission.
Who is President Truman?
She was the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English.
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
The name of the African American United States Senator from Georgia.
Who is Rafael Warnock?
This was the profession of these major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen.
What are Writers?
What is 1869?
He was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his first year as a center for the New York Knicks.
Who is Willis Reed?
Before the end of World War I, these more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles.
What is the Women’s Army Corps (or WAC)?
On February 2, 1913, this genetic biologist won the Spingarn Medal. He received this same medal on this day in 1915 for his pioneering in cell division and fertilization.
Who is Ernest Just?
Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living poet," this controversial writer, college professor, and political commentator lost his position as New Jersey's poet laureate after a fallout from his controversial 9/11-related poem.
Who is Amiri Baraka?
The name of the 2017 movie that shined a light on three African American women Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughn; who were the brains behind NASA’s launch of John Glenn into orbit, one of the greatest operations in history.
What is Hidden Figures?
Cartoonist Morrie Turner created this world-famous syndicated comic strip.
What is Wee Pals?
This US federal government agency founded more than 4,000 schools, including Howard University.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
At the age of 29, Bernie Bickerstaff became the youngest assistant coach in NBA history when he joined this team now known as the Washington Wizards.
What is the Washington Bullets?
This black support unit drove supplies by truck to advance American forces and performed yeoman service during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
What is The Red Ball Express?
On February 1, 1865, this Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolished slavery, and was adopted by the 38th Congress.
What is the 13th amendment?
She wrote The Lost Zoo, a classic children’s book.
Who is Countee Cullen?
The name of the hotel in which Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
What is Lorraine Motel?
This award-winning author was strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple when he created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels.
Who is Walter Mosley?
The Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore, Maryland in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War and operates under this name today.
What is Morgan State University?
This was the real name of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.
Who is Walker Smith, Jr.?
He was the first Black American admiral in the US Navy.
Who is Samuel L Gravely, Jr?
On February 3, 1903, he won the Negro Heavyweight title.
Who is Jack Johnson?
She was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
The NFL currently has this many African American head coaches.
What is 3?
This novel by Gloria Naylor was later made into a movie and consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North.
What is The Women of Brewster Place?
The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 to provide financial support to students enrolled in these educational institutions.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)?
Born in Lexington, KY, Derek Bryant was the first African American baseball player at this school, where he played from 1971-1973.
What is the University of Kentucky?
The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson’s administration to establish this officer’s training school for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa.
What is The Colored Officers’ Training Camp (or
COTC)?
On February 11, 1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr. was confirmed as the first black _____ of the United States Army.
What is Secretary of the United States Army?
Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. This many volumes made up his narrative.
What is Two?
The name of the new and current African American Governor of Maryland.
Who is Westley Moore?
Wynton Marsalis, a prominent figure in jazz since the 1980s, is the spokesperson for this group representing a younger generation of jazz musicians.
Who is The Young Lions?
The first land grant for a black college, Alcorn State University, was made in 1871 in this city.
What is Lorman, Mississippi?
Ozzie Smith earned this nickname due to his amazing acrobatics at shortstop.
Born in Kentucky, he was the first African American to die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines.
Who is Robert H. Brooks?
On February 24, 1864, she became the first black woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree.
Who is Rebecca Lee?
Black American educator, author, and orator who founded Tuskegee Institute, a school dedicated to the education of Black Americans in the post-Civil War era.
Who is Booker T Washington?
The name of the athlete who currently holds the record for most points scored in the NBA.
Who is Lebron James?
This musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: The Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas.
This state has the highest number of historically black institutions of higher learning.
What is Georgia?
This is the number of times Archie Griffin won the Heisman trophy.
What is two?
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the Tuskegee
Airmen was the first black general of the Air Force. He was instrumental in getting this president to end segregation in the armed forces.
Who is President Harry S. Truman?
On February 13, 1957, this conference organized at New Orleans meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. as President.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
The name of the fictional novel Alice Walker wrote, that featured the life of a black woman who was abused by her father and husband.
What is The Color Purple?
The name of the first African American Female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Ketanii Brown Jackson?
She was the first African American woman billionaire to a Forbes list and co-founder of a popular entertainment network for African Americans. Name her and the network she co-founded.
Who is Sheila Johnson and what is BET?
Hampton University in Virginia was originally established under this name in 1868.
What is Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute?
This is the name of the African American female Olympic track and field staff who was told by doctors that she would never walk again.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
PFC William Thompson receive his Congressional Medal of Honor during this war.
What is the Korean War?
On November 24, 1956, the Columbus Ledger Enquirer Newspaper published a photo of a cross being burned on the lawn of Columbus resident Lizzie Luntsford. This photo appeared in this famous African American magazine.
What is Jet magazine?
This woman was a slave that learned to read and write from her masters, who also encouraged her to write poetry. Her work was praised by the British and Americans alike during the American Revolutionary War. She would later become the first African American woman poet to publish a book in the United States.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
Dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin as a freshman at Morehouse College at this age.
What is 15?
In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part harmony and in 1950 this singer joined the group.
Who is Sam Cooke?
This organization helps fund more than forty Black American colleges.
What is the United Negro College Fund?
She was the first of any basketball player, male or female, to have her jersey, #31, retired by the University of Southern California (USC).
The first African American to die in World War II, Robert H. Brooks passed for white when joining this reserve military force.
What is the National Guard?
Name the first Junior High School in Columbus, GA.
What is The Lowe School?
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison told radio interviewer Terry Gross in 1996 that writing this novel “felt like a radical act” because it featured an African American girl at its center.
What is The Bluest Eye?
Name the HBCU from which came the first intercollegiate figure skating team.
What is Howard University?
Music historians refer to this type of music as the first Black American music.
What is Spiritual?
What is 1837?
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner?
In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks of the North led by this white abolitionist.
Who is Colonel Robert Gould Shaw?
She served as the first librarian (media specialist) of the 4th avenue library and the first library for African Americans in Columbus is named in her honor.
Who is Mildred Terry?
One of the earliest examples of literature published by a black woman in North America is this 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, in which she speaks on a number of issues, including sexual abuse endured by female slaves and white women’s passiveness towards slavery.
What is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
The name of the African American athlete who is the only one to have won an Olympic gold medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and a Super Bowl ring with the Dallas Cowboys in 1972.
Who is Bob Hayes?