Arts
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
Stokely Carmichael
On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone?
Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
Where was George Washington Carver born?
Diamond, Missouri
Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender?
Ulysses and Robert Poston
Which two black churches emerged from the Free African Society?
the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and the St. Thomas‟s African Episcopal Church in 1794
Who was the first Black American four star general in US military history?
Daniel James, Jr.
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
What Black American developed a treatment for arthritis?
Dr. Percy Julian
Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
WC Handy
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
The “Middle Passage”
In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white abolitionist?
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker‟s best-selling book, The Color Purple ?
Whoopi Goldberg
Who is a pioneer in tooth transplantation research and a graduate of Howard University?
Dr. Harold Fleming
Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?
Westerns
What was the name of the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else‟s land and received a split of the season‟s crop?
Sharecropping
During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black soldiers in the Steward‟s Branch where they worked as what?
Cooks and waiters
Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Platters
What doctor attended President James Garfield after he was shot?
Dr. Charles Purvis
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and the Indianapolis Ledger ?
William Alexander Chambers
What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to the North?
Sojourner Truth
Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?
Buffalo Soldiers
Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came You with a popular male group and it went gold as well. What is the name of the group?
The Spinners
What physicist and Morehouse College graduate received the first Professor Arturo Miolati Prize for outstanding scientific achievement for his work on fragment molecules known as free radicals?
Dr. Dolphus Milligan