Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to Exhale?
Who is Terry McMillian
100
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Who is Oprah Winfrey
100
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
What is YMCA
100
What was the 1st war in which blacks served in every branch of the U. S. armed forces?
What is World War II
100
What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used aboard a Skylab space mission?
What is Waste management system
200
Langton Hughes was responsible for publishing which Black American magazine?
What is The Nation
200
Who was the first Black American women bank resident?
Who is Maggie Lena Walker
200
In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?
What is Virginia
200
In 1942, what branch of the U. S. armed forces became the last to admit blacks?
What is U. S. Marine Corps
200
What noted inventor patented an improvement for the automatic gearshift?
What is Richard Spikes
300
Currently the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh, North Carolina, this well-known female singer worked with the gospel group The Caravans established by Albertina Walker. Name her.
Who is Shirley Caesar
300
Baltimore's newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded by what former slave?
Who is John H. Murphy
300
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
What is Underground Railroad
300
Who was the 1st Black American admiral in the US Navy?
What is Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.
300
Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in what occupation?
What is Soybean chemist
400
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
What is The Blues
400
Who is the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?
Who is Isaac Myers
400
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
What is The North Star
400
Who became the 1st Black American to hold the rank of major during the Civil War?
What is Martin Delany
400
What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
What is open heart surgery
500
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead was known as 'what' in 1979?
What is The Black National Anthem
500
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
What is Cotton?
500
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
What is The "Middle Passage"
500
Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army?