ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"?
ANSWER = Aretha Franklin
What African American designed an ultraviolet camera used in Apollo 16?
ANSWER = George E. Carruthers
What African American union organizer helped open the door for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination?
ANSWER = Philip Randolph
What professional African American baseball player finished his career with 755 home runs?
ANSWER = Henry “Hank” Aaron
What was the name of the African American fighter pilot group formed during World War II?
ANSWER = Tuskegee Airmen
Who wrote the famous song "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"?
ANSWER = James Brown
What AfricanAmerican invented the threeway traffic light?
ANSWER = Garrett A. Morgan
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest ranking military officer, the first African American, and the youngest man to hold this post?
ANSWER = Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Who are the only two brothers to ever hold the heavyweight boxing title?
ANSWER = Michael and Leon Spinks
Who was the first black female astronaut?
ANSWER = Mae C. Jemison
Who was the first African American male to win an Oscar for Best Actor?
ANSWER = Sidney Poitier
What African American inventor received his first patent on his invention of the corn seed planter in 1834?
ANSWER = Henry T. Blair
Who was the first African American mayor in Chicago?
ANSWER = Harold Washington
Who became the first African American to play major league baseball and win baseball's Most Valuable Player Award?
ANSWER = Jackie Robinson
What African American was instrumental in the development of the city of Chicago?
ANSWER = Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
Who sold more than 20 million albums and collected more than 700,000 pounds of food for charity during the 1992 "Too Legit to Quit" tour?
ANSWER = M.C. Hammer
What African American patented a telephone transmitter that was bought by Bell Telephone?
ANSWER = Granville T. Woods
Who was the first African American president of the United States of America?
ANSWER = Barack Obama
What famous boxer was born with the name Cassius Clay?
ANSWER = Muhammad Ali
What African American revolutionary led colonial forces during the Boston Massacre iin March 5, 1770, becoming “the first to defy, and the first to die"?
ANSWER = Crispus Attucks
Who was the African American artist who painted pictures of family, faith, and everyday life and became famous for his artwork in the late 1800’s. He is known for his paintings like The Banjo Lesson.
Henry Ossawa Tanner or Henry O. Tanner
Who was the first African American to head the Centers for Disease Control in 1993?
ANSWER = David Satcher
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization?
ANSWER = Ida B. Wells
What is the name of the African American female gymnast who won a total of three medals in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics?
ANSWER = Simone Biles
What were the black soldiers who primarily fought Native Americans in the West after the Civil War called?
ANSWER = Buffalo Soldiers