General Black History Month Trivia
What month is Black History Month Celebrated?
WHAT IS: February
Who invented the elevator?
Who is: Alexander Miles
Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, self-identified drag queen, and one of the prominent figures of the Stonewall Uprisings
WHO IS: Marsha P. Johnson
He wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son
WHO IS: James Baldwin
Which month is Black Catholic History Month?
WHAT IS: November
Since 1975, every US president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.
What is the 2021 Black History Month Theme?
What is: The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
Who invented hair products that led her to become one of America's first self-made millionaires?
WHO IS: Madam C.J. Walker
Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. Most notably known for organizing marches on the American South, one of which became known as Bloody Sunday.
WHO IS: John Lewis
Who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
WHO IS: Maya Angelou
Who served as the first Executive Director of the National Office for Black Catholics?
Which President Officially Recognized Black History Month?
WHO IS: President Gerald Ford
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
WHO IS: Garrett Morgan - entrepreneur and businessman who also invented the gas mask.
In 1969 this person became the first Black Woman elected to Congress
WHO IS: Shirley Chisolm
UCLA Historian who wrote Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
WHO IS: Robin D.G. Kelley
The first community of Black Catholic Nuns organized in the South and the second in the United States
The Sisters of the Holy Family
Which historian is credited with creating Black History Month?
WHO IS: Carter G. Woodson
The first Black Woman to receive a doctorate from MIT and led the research that developed caller ID and call waiting
WHO IS: Shirley Ann Jackson
She is a former Black Panther, Communist, Prison Abolitionist, and author of Women, Race & Class.
WHO IS: Dr. Angela Y. David
This author references the work of Octavia Butler in their book Emergent Strategy
WHO IS: Adrienne Maree Brown
What year did American Bishops denounce racial prejudice as immoral for the first time?
1958
What year did Black History Month become nationally recognized?
WHAT IS: 1976
A scientist from North Carolina who led the effort to create the Moderna vaccine
WHO IS: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
Which Black mathematician was a surveyor who helped plan the District of Columbia?
WHO IS: Benjamin Banneker in 1790 - Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught.
The Boston-based organization of Black feminist lesbian socialist released this Collective Statement in 1977
WHAT IS: The Combahee River Collective
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