Black History Month
Women of Black History
African American History
Who am I
Black History Month Entertainers
100
What does segregation mean?
Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
100
What does WNBA stand for?
A. West Northern Bay Academy
B. Women's National Basketball Association
C. Women's National Beta Association
B. Women's National Basketball Association.
On April 24, 1996, women's basketball announced “We Got Next” as the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) to begin play in June 1997. Since then, the WNBA has been the home for the best women's basketball talent in the world.
100
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
A. Jackie Robinson
B. Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker
C. Willie Mays
D. Satchel Page
B. Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker
On May 1, 1884, the 26-year-old Walker was the catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in their opening game in the then-major league American Association. Six decades later, while Robinson was hailed as a pioneer, Walker was seen more as a curiosity.
100
I an American Civil Rights activist, I began using the phrase, “Me too,” on Twitter in an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault and sexual abuse. Who am I?
A. Angela Davis
B. Ida B. Wells
C. Kathleen Cleaver
D. Tarana Burke 
D. Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke In 2006, Tarana Burke, an American Civil Rights activist, began using the phrase, “Me too,” on Twitter in an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault and sexual abuse. However, it was something that she wishes she had said to other survivors of sexual assault before then- that they were not alone. That she too had survived. It is what moved her to create Just Be, Inc. to help promote mental and physical wellness amongst marginalized women and young girls. “Me too,” became a movement after the use of the hashtag gained popularity when actresses began coming forward with their experiences in Hollywood. Along with others, Tarana Burke was named “Person of the Year” by Time Magazine in 2017. As the Senior Director of the non-profit Girls for Gender Equality in Brooklyn, New York, she helps create opportunities for young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to overcome the many hurdles that they face. Through GGE, Ms. Burke tackles issues of sexism, poverty, racial injustices, transphobia, homophobia, and harassment.
100
Who is known as the King of Pop?
Who is: Michael Jackson
200
Why is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
A. To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
B. To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on black Americans.
C. To celebrate the history of black achievement.
B. To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on black Americans.
200
Who is the dancer, singer, fundraiser, author, and poet who read a specially-composed poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993?
A. Marita Koch
B. Maya Angelou
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou (1928)
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights, activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
200
He started the "Back to Africa Movement", and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica
A. Malcolm X
B. Marcus Garvey
C. Louis Farrakhan
D. Elijah Muhammad
B. Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.
200
At the age of three, I began playing the piano by ear. During the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era, my music reflected the anger that other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. I recorded more than forty albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations, and received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002. Who am I?
A. Lauryn Hill
B. Nina Simone
C. Aretha Franklin
D. Patti Labelle
B. Nina Simone
Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) At the age of three, Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, began playing the piano by ear. Her talent was undeniable as she could play almost anything she heard on the piano. Her parents allowed her to play the piano at her mother’s church. Soon she began studying classical piano with Muriel Mazzanovich, an Englishwoman who was living in the town of Tyron, North Carolina, where Nina Simone was born and raised. Under Mazzanovich’s instruction, Nina became well-versed in the classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach whose style she fused with pop, jazz, and gospel to create her unique sound. And during the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era (1064 – 1974), her music reflected the anger that she and other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. The existence of racism had been obvious to Dr. Simone at a young age. Despite her talent (she studied at Julliard in New York) and her intelligence – Simone was valedictorian of her class in high school – she was denied admission to the Curtis Institute of Music because she was Black. But she did not let that stop her. In fact, Simone went on to record more than forty albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and receiving a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002 for her work. Additionally, she received three honorary degrees from Malcolm X College and Amherst College, and a third which was granted nine days before she died, from the school that rejected her, the Curtis Institute of Music.
200
Who is known as one of the greatest guitarists of all time?
A.) Pince
B.) Jimi Hendrix
C.) B.B. King
Who is Jimi Hendrix
300
In what year was it proposed that the entire month of February become Black History month?
A. 1965
B. 1968
C. 1969
D. 1970
C. Black History Month was proposed in 1969
300
Who's the first women's basketball player to have a Nike shoe named after her?
Sheryl Swoopes
300
A. Secretary for the Department of Defense
B. Invented America First Clock
C. Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
D. She was the first Black Female Astronaut
C. Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
300
I was a pioneer of the 1950 civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, I was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up my set to white women. Who am I?
A. Rosa Parks
B. Claudette Colvin
C. Ida B. Wells
D. Ella Baker
B. Claudette Colvin
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus
300
Who was the star in the movie Black Panther?
WHO IS: Chadwick Boseman
400
Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?
A. Dr. Charles Drew
B. Dr. William Augustus Hinton
C. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
C. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
400
Who are the two most famous and most highly paid women in the history of tennis?
A. Chloe and Halle
B. Venus and Serena
C. Sonny and Cher
Venus and Serena
Tennis player Serena Williams won more Grand Slam singles titles (23) than any other woman or man during the open era. In addition, Serena and her sister Venus won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, the second most for a pair in the open era, and three doubles gold medals at the Olympics.
400
What black organization was active from 1966-1982 in Oakland, California? This organization's core practice was its open carry armed citizens' patrols ("cop watching") to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city.
Black Panther Party
A variety of community social programs became a core activity. The Party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS. It advocated for class struggle, with the party representing the proletarian vanguard.
400
Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
I was a leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955
Nonviolent protest
Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
WHO IS: Halle Berry
500
What President recognized Black History Month?
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Gerald Ford
C. Ronald Reagan
D. Barack Obama
B. Gerald Ford
500
Who was a civil rights activist and President of the Arkansas NAACP who advised the nine high school students who integrated the Little Rock public schools in 1957?
A. Daisy Lee May Bates
B. Dorothy Height
C. Malcom X
D. John Lewis
Daisy Lee May Bates (1914 - 1999)
500
What was the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
A. Telfar
B. BET Black Entertainment Television
C. Oprah Winfrey Network OWN
D. AJ Crimson Beauty
B. BET (Black Entertainment Television)
500
I was the first African-American woman Pilot. Who am I?
A. Bessie Coleman
B. Asli Hassan Abade
C. Madeline Swegle
D. Stephanie Johnson
A. Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman pilot. She had humble beginnings. Her father was a sharecropper (one who pays living expenses by farming on land owned by someone else) in Texas and she was one of 13 children. She walked four miles every day to school. As an adult, Bessie became interested in aviation (flying) after hearing stories from World War I veterans. Aviation schools in the United States would not admit women or black people so Bessie studied and earned her pilot’s license in Europe. When she returned, she was known as Queen Bessie and earned a living by doing air acrobatics. She died at the age of 34, doing the thing she loved most – flying
500
The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
WHO IS:Misty Copeland
600
What name was given to the network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada?
A. Transcontinental Railroad
B. The Underground Railroad
C. Emancipation Proclamation
B. The Underground Railroad
600
Who is Henrietta Lacks and what is she known for?
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.
An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.
600
Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?
A. Refrigerator
B. Blood Banks
C. Plastic Surgery
B. Blood Banks
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developed improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
600
I was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana on November 14, 1960. Who am I?
A. Shirley Chisholm
B. Ruby Nell Bridges
C. Mary Church Terrell
D. Angela Davis
B. Ruby Nell Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
600
Who wrote the jazz classic "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"?
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Musician-composer-bandleader Ellington composed many famous jazz works, including "Solitude", "Mood Indigo", "Sophisticated Lady", and "Take the A-Train", either by himself or with his collaborator Billy Strayhorn.
700
What state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States?
A. The Three-Fifths Clause of the United States Constitution
B. Jim Crow
C. Separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws
In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
700
She was a revolutionary American educator. This former Black Panther has fought for race, class, and gender equality over the years. She authored one of the most distinguished books in the field of women’s studies called Women, Race & Class.
A. Susan Rice
B. Angela Davis
C. Kathleen Cleaver
D. Val Demings
B. Angela Davis
700
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
A. J.P Knight
B. Garrett Morgan
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Morgan Freeman
B. Garrett Morgan
700
I am a former slave, I gained fame as an abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. As a national leader of the Abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts, my oratory skills were universally praised. Who am I?
Frederick Douglass
700
At the Academy Awards held in 2002, which actors won Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars?
A. Morgan Freeman and Thandie Newton
B. Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Angela Bassett
C. Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith
D. Denzel Washington and Halle Berry
Denzel Washington and Halle Berry
800
Who was the first to refuse to give up her seat on a bus?
1. Claudette Colvin
2. Rosa Parks
3. Jo Ann Robinson
Claudette Colvin
800
Who was the first woman ever to own and produce her own talk show?
A. Tyra Banks
B. Oprah Winfrey
C. Wendy Williams
B. Oprah Winfrey
September 8, 1986, marked the beginning of Oprah's monumental Emmy-winning daytime talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. On air for 25 years, she became the first woman to both own and produce her own television show.
800
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?
A. Mayor of Chicago
B. U.S. Senator
C. U.S. House of Representative
D. Governor of Illinois
B. U.S. Senator
800
I was born in Philadelphia but moved to Italy as a child.
I played high school basketball at Lower Merion High School.
I've won five championships with this NBA team.
I was signed to a recording deal with Sony records.
I was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Kobe Bryant
800
Which African-American entertainer was the first to star in his own television series?
A. Sammy Davis, Jr.
B. Nat King Cole
C. Bill Cosby
B. Nat King Cole
Cole's variety series, The Nat King Cole Show ran for 64 weeks in 1956 and 1957 on NBC. Cosby was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, which co-starred Robert Culp and ran from 1965 to 1968.
900
What does prejudice mean?
A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority
900
She sang at the 1963 March on Washington right before Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech.
A. Josephine Baker
B. Lena Horne
C. Billie Holiday
D. Mahalia Jackson
D. Mahalia Jackson
The Queen of the Gospel is known as one of the greatest musicians in American history. Jackson sang at the 1963 March on Washington right before Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. While giving his speech, Jackson interjected with “Tell them about the dream, Martin.” Jackson’s words led King to improvise the pivotal latter part of his speech.
900
Who Is The Richest Artist In Hip Hop With A Net Worth Of Over $1 Billion?
A. Lil Wayne
B. P.Diddy
C. Drake
D. Jay-Z
D. Jay-Z
900
I am an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. I served as an organizer for the March on Washington and was influential in teaching Dr. Martin Luther King about the use of nonviolence in regard to social injustices.
Bayard Rustin
900
In 1988, after years of being neglected by mainstream media, hip-hop got its own show on what channel?
A. BET
B. VH1
C. MTV
D. E!
B. MTV
1000
What organization was formed on Feb. 12, 1909?
A. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
B. The National African American Leadership Summit
C. National Black Chamber of Commerce
D. National Black Women’s Justice Institute
A. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1000
Who was the first and only Black Woman to serve as Vice President of the United States of America?
A. Oprah Winfrey
B. Michelle Obama
C. Kamala Harris
D. Maxine Waters
C. Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris born on October 20, 1964, is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.
1000
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Spurred by growing racial violence in the early 20th century, and particularly by the 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, a group of African American leaders joined together to form a new permanent civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
1000
I was the first woman and first black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to my run for the Presidency. I made history by becoming the first black congresswoman, representing New York State in the House of Representatives for seven terms. I graduate from Brooklyn College and earned a Masters degree in education from Columbia University. As a former teacher, I spent her political career fighting for equal opportunities in education and social justice (equality for all people no matter what our differences). Who am I?
A. Althea Gibson
B. Constance Baker Motley
C. Shirley Chisholm
D. Mae Jemison
C. Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Before Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, there was Shirley Chisholm. Shirley Chisholm was the first woman and first black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to her run for the Presidency, Shirley Chisholm made history by becoming the first black Congresswoman, representing New York State in the House of Representatives for seven terms. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she earned her Masters degree in education from Columbia University. As a former teacher, she spent her political career fighting for equal opportunities in education and social justice (equality for all people no matter what our differences).
1000
Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?
A. Compton, Los Angeles
B. Houston, Texas
C. The Bronx, New York City
D. Brooklyn, New York City
C. The Bronx, New York City