Education I
Education II
Education III
Education IV
Education V
100
In 1944, this fund was established to help African American students attend college.
United Negro College Fund
100
This African American actor and his wife donated $20 million to Spelman College to build an academic center.
Bill and Camille Cosby
100
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, educator and college president, started this fund.
United Negro College Fund
100
He edited Encarta Africana, a multimedia encyclopedia released in 1999.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
100
In what year did the Supreme Court rule that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional?
1954
200
She founded the National Council of Negro Women and was an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mary McCleod Bethune
200
This African American male became the first of the Little Rock Nine to graduate from the all White Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ernest Green
200
What month has been designated as Black Music Month?
June
200
Where are Grambling State University and Southern University located, respectively?
Grambling, Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Louisiana
200
What two historically African American universities play each other in the Bayou Classic, a nationally televised football game?
Grambling State University and Southern University and A & M College
300
What was the first African American university in the United States?
Lincoln University
300
What is the name of the non-religious African American holiday created by Maulana Ron Karenga in the 1960’s to celebrate and encourage African values among African American families?
Kwanzaa
300
What historically African American university was the first to open in 1853 in Pennsylvania and originally called Ashmum Institute?
Lincoln University
300
What is the name given to the nine African American students who, in 1957, enrolled in all White Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Little Rock Nine
300
This former Supreme Court Justice argued the case of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Thurgood Marshall
400
Why was February selected as Black History Month?
It is the birth month of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
400
Who served as Principal of Peabody High School in Alexandria, Louisiana from 1937-1972? He died in February 17, 1996.
David Faxton Iles
400
Who was the first African American male to graduate from college in 1823?
Alexander Twilight
400
What African American scholar, author, and journalist made this often quoted statement: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line?”
W. E. B. Dubois
400
When is Kwanzaa celebrated?
December 26 – January 1
500
Who was the 2003 recipient of the Angel Award, an award given annually by the State of Louisiana to the individual who goes above and beyond the call of duty to improve the lives of youth in the state?
Ben Johnson
500
In 1996, Harvard University honored washerwoman/philanthropist Oseola McCarty, age eighty-seven, with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for doing what?
Donating her $150,000 savings to University of Southern Mississippi
500
How much was the fine in South Carolina for teaching a slave to read and write in 1740?
$141
500
During slavery and sometimes after, what two things were illegal in many states for one to teach a slave?
Reading and Writing
500
For his years of support, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America presented this actor its highest award, the 2004 Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award.
Denzel Washington
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