Celebrating Black History!
Black History Month is annually celebrated in this month
February
What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black College or University
Double Points if you can name an HBCU in TX!
Toni Morrison was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Name one of Toni Morrison's works.
Song of Solomon, Sula
Recitatif, Jazz
A Mercy, Paradise, Home
Love, Tar Baby, Sweetness
Who was the first Black American appointed to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Double points if you can name the President that appointed him in 1967.
In 1951, cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent became the first immortal human cells. They have been instrumental in medical research, including the development of vaccines and cancer treatments. What is the nickname of the cells?
HeLa Cells
This year is the ___th year celebrating Black History!
100
Lucy Stanton was the first Black woman to earn a four-year college degree from Oberlin College in which state?
Ohio
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to compete in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he took the field for what team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Double Points if you can name who played him in the 2013 movie "42"
Who was arrested nine months prior to Rosa Parks for also not giving up her bus seat to white passenger?
Claudette Colvin
Madam C. J. Walker, known as the first female self-made millionaire in America, made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women. What was the name of her haircare line?
The Walker System
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An HBCU is defined as “any historically Black college or university established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education]" in the Higher Education Act of what year?
1965
Before Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan joined the billionaire’s club, Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire when he sold the cable station he founded in 2001. What is the name of the TV Station?
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American person to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties. What was her autobiography title and campaign slogan?
Unbought and Unbossed
George Washington Carver aka "The Peanut Man" was a world famous agricultural scientist and inventor. His research and experimentation with Peanuts spanned from beauty products to dyes and pharmaceuticals. Approximately how many derivative products did he create from peanuts?
300
The celebration of Black History was set in February to coincide with the birthdates of these historical figures.
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
The first HBCU was founded in 1837 in Pennsylvania with the assistance of the Quakers. What is the name of this University?
Cheyney University
Althea Gibson became the first African American to compete in a pro-world tennis tour and in 1956, the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title. She then moved to a new sport where she made more history by becoming the first African American competitor on the women’s pro ____ tour in the 1960s.
Golf
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate in 1870. What state did he represent?
Mississippi
Provident Hospital, founded by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (who also performed one of the first successful open-hear surgeries), opened in which U.S. major city?
Chicago
Founded in 1915, the mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH®) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community. What is the name of one of the Founders of the ASALH (formerly known as ASNLH)?
Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson
George Cleveland Hall
William B. Hartgrove
Jesse E. Moorland
Alexander L Jackson
James E. Stamps
Septima Poinsette Clark helped found nearly 1000 citizenship schools to assist with literacy education and citizenship workshops that helped Black Americans with their right to ____.
Vote
_____ ___________ was the first Black artist to win a Grammy. She is also known as the "First Lady of Song," and is known as a worldwide Jazz Icon.
Ella Fitzgerald
After 35 years in the U.S. Army, Colin L. Powell was appointed Secretary of State on January 20, 2001, after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He served for four years, leaving the position on January 26, 2005. He was the first African-American to serve as Secretary of State. Which President appointed him to this position?
Featured in the film "Hidden Figures" (2016), three Black Women at NASA tirelessly worked to calculate mathematical equations for the successful orbit of John Glen. What was the name of any of the three women?
Katherine Johnson
Dorothy Vaughan
Mary Jackson