History of Greek Orgs
This is first black Greek fraternity for college students.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha?
She is the first African-American chosen as Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
This President recognized Black History Month in 1976.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This conductor of a famous railroad was known as The Moses to her People.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
She was the first Black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey
What is the year Phi Beta Kapa was founded on the campus of William& Mary (go Tribe!)
What is December 5, 1776?
This soulful singer will always be remembered as The Queen of Soul.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
She is the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
This American social reformer and statesman escaped slavery to become a national leader of the Abolitionist Movement while his writings and oratory influenced presidents, preachers and poets.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls after placing 7th on American Idol only two years earlier.
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
Wesleyan College.
What is the location of the founding of the first sorority?
This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
She was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet.
Who is Misty Copeland?
This was the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
BET- Black Entertainment Television
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball for this team.
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
The first National Sorority was established here in this year.
What is Monmouth College in 1867?
He supported the "Back to Africa Movement" and racial pride, and was later deported to his homeland of Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This American author and historian born to former slaves was responsible for starting Black History week.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This was the nickname for the all Black 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps which escorted Allied Bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This woman was the first to win five Grammy Awards in one year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
The name of the first Fraternity.
What is Phi Beta Kappa?
They were the black soldiers who primarily fought in the West after the Civil War.
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
This medical doctor and scientist was interested in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions.
Who is Charles Drew?
She was first woman and first Black American to run for the nomination for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This scientist and mathematician helped design the blueprints for Washington DC.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?