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African American Firsts
Black history month questions
Black woman
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This poet was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Who is Ralph Johnson Bunche?

100

This poet is known for their quilted narrations based on their political beliefs. 

Who is Faith Ringgold?

100

This baseball player was actually the first African American to play on the Major League Baseball team. 

Who is Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker? 

100

This month is considered black history month. 

What is February?

100

This woman was the first woman African American to become a self-made millionare. 

Who is Madam C. J. Walker?

200

This woman was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May first, 1950. 

Who is Gwendolyn Brooks? 

200

This artist painted the famous painting "Dustheads" in 1982. 

Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?

200

This golf player was the first African American to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit? 

Who is Tiger Woods?

200

This person is considered the person who started black history month. 

Who is Carter J. Woodson?

200

This woman lead the Combahee River Raid, that freed over 750 slaves and had temporal lobe epilepsy? 

Who is Harriet Tubman?
300

This poet wrote the play, "A Black Mass" in 1966. 

Who is Amiri Baraka? 

300

This artist painted the President Barack Obama in the National Portrait Gallery. 

Who is Kehinde Wiley?

300

This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State. 

Who is Colin Powell? 

300

This was the year of the first black history month. 

What is 1976?

300

This woman was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks for not giving up her bus seat. 

Who is Claudette Colvin? 

400

This woman was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. 

Who is Lucille Clifton? 

400

This new artist makes art combining ankara fabric and acrylic paint about motherhood, black power, and black traditions. 

Who is Affen Segun?

400
This person was the first African American to have their likeness portrayed on the U.S. postage stamp. 

Who is Booker T. Washington?

400
This person is the president who first recognized black history month. 

Who is Gerald Ford?

400

This woman designed the wedding dress for Jacqueline Kennedy. 

Who is Ann Lowe? 

500

This poet was the first African American to serve as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976-1978. 

Who is Robert Hayden?

500

This city is widely known as the origin of hip-hop. 

What is The Bronx, NYC. 

500

This author was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.

Who is Toni Morrison? 

500

This year is when the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded. 

What is 1915?

500

This person was the first African American woman to earn a four-year college degree by completing a Literary degree. 

Who is Lacy Stanton? 

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