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100
This is what HBCU stands for -
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
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
What year was the first Tuskegee Airmen squadron formed?
When was 1941?
100
What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
100
When did Rosa Parks’ bus boycott happen?
What is December 1955
200
The name that makes up all of the Black Greek Letter Organizations.
200
This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960. 
Who is Ruby Bridges?
200
The second African American to hold the office of New York City Mayor?
Who is Eric Adams
200
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
200
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?
What is Aug. 28, 1963
300
The first black sorority was formed on this campus?
What is Howard University?
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
Which president ended racial segregation in the U.S. using armed forces in 1948?
Who is President Harry Truman?
300
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
300
What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?
What is "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"
400
What was the first black Greek sorority?
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. established in 1908.
400
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
What is 1863?
400
What year did the first black men graduate from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)?
When was 1963?
400
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?
400
Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
Who is Maya Angelou
500
What is the name of the first black Greek fraternity for college students?
Alpha Phi Alpha
500
Sis. Karmesha Peake won her first Grammy for this all Black opera
What is Porgy & Bess?
500
The first Black governor of Virginia
Who is Douglas Wilder
500
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA
What is Hidden Figures?
500
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?
What is U.S. Senator
600
A woman of Delta Sigma Theta, she was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. congress and as a major-party U.S. presidential candidate. She also survived three assassination attempts.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
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
The first African American woman Supreme Court Justice
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson
600
Invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
600
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson
700
She once served as California’s attorney general and this AKA is the first female African-American and Asian-American to hold the post. She later became the first African-American and Asian-American woman to hold her current job.
Who is Kamala Harris?
700
The inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
700
Sis. Karmesha Peake won her second Grammy for this all Black opera
What is "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
700
The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
700
Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955?
Who is Rosa Parks
800
What is the largest HBCU?
What is North Carolina A&T?
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
First Black woman to enter space
Who is Mae Jemison?
800
The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison?
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
What was the first Black owned & operated HBCU established in Ohio?
What is Wilberforce University?
900
In America, enslaved Africans used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom.
What are cornrows?
900
The first African American to hold the office of New York City Mayor?
David Dinkins
900
When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?
What is 1926
900
The first democratic speaker of the House of Representatives
Who is
Hakeem Jeffries
1000
What was the first degree-granting HBCU established in Pennsylvania?
What is Lincoln University?
1000
This Constitutional Amendment gave Black people equal protection under the law....
What is the 14th amendment
1000
Joined the Abyssinian Baptist Church as a youth minister in 1972.
Pastor Calvin O. Butts, III
1000
He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York
Who was Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
1000
NAACP stands for this
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
