Black
He was inaugurated as the 44th president. He became the first African American president of the United States?
Barack H. Obama
In 1871 who became the first Black American governor?
P.B.S. Pinchback
Who was the first black man to run for president?
Jesse Jackson
What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry?
Rap
What musical artist has the most Grammys of all time?
Beyoncé
Who is the first female Vice-President of the United States?
Kamala Harris
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
Folding bed
Who was the first black woman to run for president?
Shirley Chisolm
What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?
Freedom’s Journal
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
B E T
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Ralph Bunche
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Astronaut
What year did the celebration of Black History Month begin?
1923
Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
Robert “Bob” Johnson
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Run- DMC
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who is the “Father of Black History?
Carter G. Woodson
Who is called the Father of the Blues?
WC Handy
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first American to appear on a postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
What is the name of the holiday that celebrates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.?
Junteenth
What Harlem theater is a showcase for Black talent?
The Apollo Theater
Who was the first African American female millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
In the mid-1970s what form of dancing where the dancer flipped and spinned developed from the Disco scene in the Bronx?
Breakdancing