Arts
Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Zora Neale Hurston
What was Madame C.J. Walker' s real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Training Day
What did many associate with the term "Jim Crow"?
Racial Segregation
Who was the first Black American four star general in US military history?
Daniel James, Jr.
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903.
W.E.B. DuBois
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Where did the "sit-in" movement begin?
Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina
Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963?
The Crucifixion
Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?
Joseph L. Searles
Who was the first Black American master of ceremonies of a nationally televised show?
Nipsey Russell
Who helped form the "American Moral Reform Society", which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?
William S. Whipper
Who was the first Black American senator in Congress?
Hiram Revels
This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer who worked with many groups and large choirs in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound. Name him.
James Cleveland
What is the name of the famous Black college in Washington, D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine?
Howard University
Initially popular with his jazz trio, he shifted to mainstream pop music and achieved international acclaim along with a bit of criticism for that shift and tor playing segregated clubs in the South. Name this popular entertainer whose variety show aired in 1956.
Nat King Cole
Who were the Exodusters?
They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled in Kansas in 1879
The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature, Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate delegate to what body?
United Nations
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder, the Freeman, and the Indianapolis Ledger?
William Alexander Chambers
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. She was a singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the French resistance during World War II. Name this popular entertainer.
Josephine Baker
Who was the first African American missionary worker and an organizer of the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the largest African American churches in Chicago?
Nancy Green
The first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and the first African American to run for mayor of Atlanta, Horace Tate was elected to what body in 1974?
Georgia State Senate