Business & Education
What was Madame C.J. Walker's real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history?
The Oprah Winfrey Show
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. Name her.
Toni Morrison
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
The North Star
What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer?
Major Martin R. Delany
Who was the first Black American woman to be president of a bank?
Maggie Lena Walker
What artist recorded the songs, "I Will Always Love You", "The Greatest Love of All", and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"?
Whitney Houston
What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?
The Schomburg Center
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s executive assistant?
Wyatt Tee Walker
Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?
William Carney
What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
National Negro Network
The first rap song to achieve commercial success was "Rapper's Delight." What was the name of the group who recorded this single in 1979?
The Sugar Hill Gang
Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative?
Two
Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia?
William Tucker
What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?
President Abraham Lincoln
In 1975, who became the first African American to own and operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Training Day
Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?
Writers
What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville?
Thurgood Marshall
During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed a Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862.
Robert Smalls
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States?
Philadelphia Tribune
Harry Belafonte became the first black to receive an Emmy for what show in 1959?
Tonight with Belafonte
Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986?
The Life and Times of Malcolm X
In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what nondenominational religious association and mutual aid society?
The Free African Society of Philadelphia
What did Pompey Lamb do to help aid the American Revolutionary War effort?
Spy