BLACK HISTORY
WHEN DID THE CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH BEGIN?
1926
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
what is Folding Bed
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?
what is Voting Rights
What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?
what is Freedom's Journal
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
who is Carter G. Woodson
Who invented a vertical spring that made it possible for cars to have convertible tops
who is James A. Jones
WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN Major League Baseball player
who is Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?
who is Booker T. Washington
How many African-Americans have served in the United States Senate since it first convened in 1789?
what is 6
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
who is W.E.B. Du Bois
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
what is 1865
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light
who is Garrett Morgan
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
what is Greensboro, North Carolina
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
who is Thurgood Marshall
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
what is CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
Which distinguished gospel singer performed at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961?
who is Mahalia Jackson
Who signed The Emancipation Act?
who is Abraham Lincoln
Who was the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
John Taylor
Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates this
what is The emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
who is Hattie McDaniel
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
who is "Blind Tom" Wiggins
What was the first historically black college in America?
what is Cheyney University
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
who is Richard Theodore Greener
before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?
what is Negro History Week
Which of these influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Toni Morrison