Sports
Arther Ashe is famous for _____
Basketball
Baseball
Track
Tennis
Tennis
We tragically last this actor in 2020; he is most known for his role as T’Challa AKA Black Panther
Michael B Jordan
Chadwick Bosman
Daniel Kalua
Michael K Williams
Chadwick Bosman -
Black Panther won three Oscars. The first two were truly historic. Ruth Carter won Best Costume Design; the first African American woman to win in the category. Hannah Beachler, who won for Best Production Design; the first woman of color to win, and the first nominated
We needed to see their birth certificate but they were the first black president of the United States:
A) Colin Powel
B) Kamala Harris
C) Barack Obama
D) Michelle Obama
C) Barack Obama
We are starting to see this get banned from being taught in schools
A) Programming
B) Math
C) Subject
D) Critical Race Theory
D) Critical Race Theory -
Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.
Before running for president and serving as the U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Trump, this person was a world-famous, pioneering brain surgeon.
A) Ben Carson
B) Colin Powell
C) Omarosa Newman
D) Michelle Obama
A) Ben Carson -
This person was a world-famous, pioneering brain surgeon known for successfully separating conjoined twins
This NBA player did joined the likes of Muhammad Ali as athletes who demanded racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement, and is the most decorated player is his sport with 11 rings.
Michael Jordan
Bill Russell
Karem Abdul Jabar
Magic Johnson
Bill Russell
In the movie Hidden Figures, Taraji P Henson played Katherine G Johnson. What was Johnson know for?
A) Secretary for the Department of Defense
B) Invented Calculus
C) Her calculations helped NASA’s space program
D) She was the first female astronaut
C) Her calculations helped NASA’s space program
Who was Madam CJ Walker?
A) The first female African-American self-made millionaire
B) The first female African-American business owner
C) The first female African-American lawyer
D) The first female African-American leader of the NAACP
A) The first female African-American self-made millionaire
In the Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case of 1954, Thurgood Marshall argued what?
A) Segregation was inherently unequal
B) The 13th amendment was unconstitutional
C) Better funding for black schools
D) Increasing the number of black schools
A) Segregation was inherently unequal -
African American attorneys citied the 14th Amendment and relied on the findings of psychologist Kenneth B. Clark’s doll experiment, which demonstrated that segregation damaged the personality development of Black children.
In 1981, a persistent woman name Alexa Irene Canady become the first African-American woman in this specialty:
A) Cardiology
B) Neurosurgery
C) Oncology
D) Psychiatry
B) Neurosurgery -
She rose to chief of neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. She has been lauded for her patient-centered approach to care. She noted, “by being patient-centered, the practice growth was exponential.”
As a slap in the face to a German dictator, this black Track and Field star hauled in 4 gold metals at the Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens
Michael Johnson
Edwin Moses
Carle Lewis
Jesse Owens
For which of these roles did Denzel Washington win an Oscar?
A) Malcom X, Malcom X
B) Steve Biko, Cry Freedom
C) Coach Boon, Remember the Titans
D) Alonzo Harris, Training Day
D) Alonzo Harris, Training Day
He cofounded a community that consisted of a 10 point platform and program, that FBI director J Edgar Hoover deemed the “the greatest threat to the internal security of the US”.
A) Malcom X
B) Huey P Newton
C) Barack Obama
D) George Floyd
B) Huey P Newton -
The founder of the Black panther party Created, in Newton’s words, “to serve the needs of the oppressed people in our communities and defend them against their oppressors”
What was the first historically black college in America?
A) Lincoln University
B) Howard University
C) Cheyney University
D) Wiley College
C) Cheyney University
Who was the first African-American physician?
A) James McCune Smith
B) Richard Webber
C) Ben Carson
D) Leonidas Harris Berry
A) James McCune Smith -
https://www.searchablemuseum.com/the-first-african-american-physician
Jackie Robinson was the first black player allowed to play in the major leagues of baseball. In what year did Jackie break the color barrier?
A) 1942
B) 1950
C) 1947
D) 1954
C) 1947 - He started first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
A) Missy Elliott
B) Beyonce
C) Lauren Hill
D) Nicki Minaj
C) Lauren Hill -
One of those Grammy was for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, considered by some to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.
After the abolishment of slavery, officials found a way to rebuild and put freed Black people back to work in a “legal” way. What legal way was found, becoming an Oscar nominated documentary?
A) Volunteer work
B) 13th amendment
C) Oversea manufacturing
D) Wage reduction
B) 13th amendment -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University and become a US senator?
A) Barack Obama
B) Hiram Rhodes Revels
C) Colin Powell
D) Thurgood Marshall
B) Hiram Rhodes Revels -
A republican senator from Mississippi who later become the president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is now Alcorn State University
He earned his medical degrees by age 24 and was the first black doctor with his own practice. He was also chief MD at the NYC Colored Orphan Asylum and devoted much of his life to working to end the enslavement:
A) James McCune Smith
B) Rebecca Crupler
C) Ben Carson
D) Leonidas Berry
A) James McCune Smith -
https://www.searchablemuseum.com/the-first-african-american-physician
He died about three weeks before the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery.
Who was the first African-American female to win a Grand Slam Tennis Title?
Althea Gibson
Venus Williams
Serena Williams
Ora Washington
Althea Gibson
These 2 artists are the only black winners of the esteemed EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)
A) Beyonce, James Earl Jones
B) Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend
C) Will Smith, Quincy Jones
D) Whoopi Goldberg, Beyonce
B) Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend
What was one of the most significant acts of resistance by enslaved people?
A) Mass suicide
B) Mass protest in Savannah
C) Mass burning of crop fields
A) Mass suicide -
https://www.searchablemuseum.com/the-water-spirit-will-take-us-home
An educator and most influential spokesman for black Americans. Cofounded the Rosenwald School project which educated 1/3 of black in the south. He also advised Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft:
A) Julius Rosenwald
B) W.EB. Du Bois
C) Henry Rogers
D) Booker T Washington
D) Booker T Washington -
The most influential spokesman for black Americans between 1895 and 1915. He cofounded Rosenwald School project to combat chronic underfunding of black public schools, which educated 1/3 of African-Americans in the south.
The arguably the best full-time engineer at Laudio
Markus Howard