African American First
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
What was the trail of safe houses that helped escaped slaves from the South to the north called?
What was the The Underground Railroad?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was …….
What is unconstitutional?
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amazing man, the self–proclaimed “greatest boxer of all time”, was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell?
Slavery in the colonies began in 1619 when a slave ship carrying 20 humans as cargo landed at what British settlement in the colonies?
What was Jamestown, Virginia?
What was the name of the movie based on a book by Alice Walker about a black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades and starred Oprah Winfrey in the lead role?
What is the Color Purple?
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
What miniseries aired eight nights in 1977 with nearly 130 million viewers and was written by Alex Haley? This was a dramatization about his family line and began with the ancestor character Kunte Kinta.
What was the mini-series Roots?
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Estimates are that between 6 million and 7 million of these were imported in to the United States during the 1700's alone.
What were slaves?
Who was the first black woman chosen as Miss America?
Who is Vanessa Williams?
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
What are the BLUES?
Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument?
What is the piano?
Who was the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State?
Who is Condoleeza Rice? (President George W. Bush)
What famous abolitionist along with 22 men, (including five black men) raided and occupied a federal arsenal and resulted in the deaths of 10 people and his own hanging right here in West Virginia, Harper's Ferry? (Although then it was still Virginia)
Who was John Brown?
What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?
What is the Cotton Club?
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the young African-American was beaten, shot, and thrown in the river in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store?
Who was Emmet Till?
Who was the first African-American man to hold the World Heavyweight Champion boxing title in 1908. He held onto the belt until 1915.
Who was Jack Johnson?
In 1862, President Lincoln signed what proclamation that would end slavery?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA?
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four girls in Alabama?
What was the Alabama Church Bombing?
This actor is known for his deep booming bass voice, this man voiced the character of Darth Vader in the Star Wars series.
Who is James Earl Jones?