Black history
Who triggered the 1995 Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
Who was the first woman to become Vice President?
Kamala Harris
Who contributed to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure without credit?
Rosalind Franklin
When is International Women's Day?
March 8th
Who was the first Black MLB player?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
Who was instrumental in the success of NASA's first and following spaceflights, through her calculations of orbital mechanics?
Katherine Johnson
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Who spearheaded the March on Washington protest of 1963?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What year was the 19th Amendment (giving women the right to vote) ratified?
1920
What surgery was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams known for successfully performing first? Dr. Williams was a prominent surgeon who opened the first interracial hospital in 1891.
Open-heart surgery
Kawanza began in 1966 as a way to celebrate who's heritage?
African heritage
Who founded Tuskegee University, the second-oldest HBCU in Alabama?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress?
Shirley Chisolm
Edith Clarke was the first woman to be employed as what kind of engineer in 1922?
An electrical engineer
George Washington Carver
Which Congressman started his career as a civil rights activist, organizing sit-ins in Nashville as part of a student movement?
(the late) Rep. John Lewis
Which communist activist was arrested in NYC in connection to other radical activists, went into hiding and later was found, then after her trial went on to teach philosophy and history at University of California Santa Cruz?
Angela Davis
Which neurosurgeon led a team in 1987 that separated the Binder twins, conjoined at the back of the head?
Who was "the first great jazz soloist," a master trumpeter and vocalist and considered among the most influential figures in jazz history?
Louis Armstrong