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What is the name of the first black Greek fraternity for college students?
Alpha Phi Alpha
100
The recognition of Black history began as
A. A week
B. A day
C. It was always a month
What is a week
100
Hip Hop was birthed in this city in New York
What is the Bronx?
100
Invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
100
When did Rosa Parks’ bus boycott happen?
What is December 1955
200
The first African American to play in the MLB.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
200
First Black woman to enter space
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
200
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?
What is Aug. 28, 1963
300
The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
This 1963 march brought over 250,000 people together in support of human civil rights and is where Martin Luther King Jr gave his now iconic "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the March on Washington
300
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
300
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
300
What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?
What is "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"
400
Set in Chicago, this show celebrates the African American family dynamic with daily visits from their nerdy neighbor, Steve Urkel.
What is “Family Matters"
400
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
What is 1863?
400
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
400
Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
Who is Maya Angelou
500
Finish this quote "Float Like a butterfly..."
What is "Sting like a bee"
500
What year was the University of Alabama offically desegregated
What is "1963"
500
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
500
This African American 16-year old girl led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia
What is Barbara Johns?
500
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?
What is U.S. Senator
600
Who was the 1st black millionaire
Who is "Madam C J Walker"
600
He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks. Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...
Who is Malcom X
600
Who was the first African American to hold a spot on the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall
600
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA
What is Hidden Figures?
600
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson
700
In this 1988 film, Eddie Murphy plays the son of a King who relocated to Queens, NY.
What is Coming to America
700
The inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
700
The first woman and first Black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
700
The first Black governor of Virginia
Who is Douglas Wilder
700
Who didn't give up their seat to a white woman on a Montgomery Bus in 1955?
Who is Claudette Colvin
800
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?
What is the Dred Scott case?
800
In 1857, this thriving community of predominantly African-American homeowners were forced to move after the city of New York acquired the land through eminent domain to build what we now know as Central Park.
What is Seneca Village or Seneca Falls Village?
800
In 1959 he founded the Motown Record corporation, the first recording home of The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson, and Stevie Wonder...
Who is Berry Gordy Jr.?
800
The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
800
Which person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
900
He started the "Back to Africa Movement" and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
900
In America, slaves used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom.
What are cornrows?
900
Known for their Gospel hit with the lyrics "take the shackles off my feet so I can dance"
Who is Mary Mary?
900
When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?
What is 1926
900
When were African Americans allowed to vote
What is "1870"
1000
Who wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, The Negro National Anthem?
Who is James Weldon Johnson
1000
This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law....
What is the 14th amendment
1000
This 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life
Who is Billie Holiday?
1000
What was the first colony to ban slavery in 1777.
What is "Vermont"
1000
Who is responsible for the establishment of Black History Month
Who is Carter G. Woodson