B&E 1
Who was the CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone developing an educational model used in several cities across the nation?
Geoffrey Canada
Who became the first African American to own and operate a black radio and television station in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded what first daily black newspaper in 1864?
New Orleans Tribune
Who was the first Black network television anchor?
Max Robinson
What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music to a large audience?
Columbia Records
What labor activist founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925?
A. Philip Randolph
In 1904, who opened a small Florida school that developed into a well-known college?
Mary McLeod Bethune
What is the real name of Famous Amos?
Wally Amos
What was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson?
Negro Digest
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
What news team did Ed Bradley work for on television?
60 Minutes
Which school is the oldest African American Catholic College in the U.S.?
Xavier University
What colonial era crop utilized a large number of Africans as enslaved laborers?
Tobacco
What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
National Negro Network
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine?
Beverly Johnson
In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive at Jamestown, Virginia?
1619
In 2001, who became the first black president of an Ivy League college?
Ruth J. Simmons (president of Brown University)
In 1917, A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded what radical monthly magazine?
The Messenger
What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Who published the first Black American women’s newspaper in the US?
Josephine Ruffin
From 1893 to the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world's first living trademark for what product?
Aunt Jemima pancake mix
Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor union for black train porters, approximately how much money were these workers paid per day?
$2.00
Where was the first Black Greek sorority founded?
Howard University
Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded as journalism’s “Father of Minorities”?
Ted Poston
What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?
Modeling
What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s Black Woman”?
Essence
What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well as technicians?
American Negro Theatre
What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?
United Negro College Fund
What is the name of the high school that was integrated by African American students known as the “Little Rock Nine” in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Central High School
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
What company’s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
Who was the founder of the first African-American female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation?
Patricia Garrison-Corbin
In 1910, about fifty percent of the black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
Spelman College