Politics
She became the first African American woman elected mayor of a large American city?
What is Carrie Saxon Perry Hartford Connecticut?
What name was given to the World War II African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber)?
What is The Tuskegee Airmen.
Who was known as the "Queen of the Blues?"
Dinah Washington
Name the first Black person to graduate from Harvard College.
Richard T. Greener
What crop first created a demand for slave labor in America?
Tobacco
Name the newly elected United States Congresswoman “Squad”?
What is Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley?
What was Harriet Tubman’s role in the Civil War?
What is a spy and a militia leader
What Black actor received critical acclaim for his performance in the movie The Emperor Jones?
Paul Robeson
Name the founder of the United Negro College Fund.
Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson
What African American doctor attended to President James Garfield after he was shot?
Dr. Charles Purvis
When did President Franklin Roosevelt ban discrimination against African Americans in the military?
What is June 25, 1941?
Name the first Black Civil War Regiment to be raised in the North. Bonus(+50): What year was it formed?
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry, Bonus:1863
Who was the first African American director nominated for an Academy Award?
John Singleton
Which inspiring female preacher could not read or write.
Sojourner Truth
Who was Henrietta Lacks? Bonus(+50):What did HeLa Cells do?
The person who produced the cells called HeLa Cells. Bonus:Provided a study for the cure of Cancer, DNA, etc.
What was the song that gave Motown its first million-unit seller?
“Shop Around”
Which agent of the Underground Railroad helped Frederick Douglass to freedom?
David Ruggles
Who was the first Black astronaut accepted by NASA in 1967?
Major Robert H. Lawrence
Which Congressional Medal was bestowed upon William Harvey Carney?
he kept the Union Flag aloft during intense battle.
Actress Angela Bassett has portrayed two famous African-American women. Name them.
Tina Turner and Betty Shabazz.
They were the first Black pilots to make a round-trip transcontinental flight. Name them.
Albert Ernest Forsythe and Charles Alfred Anderson
Who was America's first African American scientist?
Benjamin Banneker