Historical Year
What year did the United States get its first black president?
2008
Who served as the first black president of the United States of America?
Barack Obama
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2021 she was selected as United States' first black woman Vice president. Who is she?
Kamala Harris
Harry Truman ended it in the Army in 1948; the Supreme Court ended it in public schools in 1954
Segregation
What year was slavery abolished?
1865
Who was the first black Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
"I can't Breathe"
George Floyd
Lisa Blunt Rochester became the first African American and the first woman to represent Delaware in Congress when she was elected in 2016. Where did she grow up?
Rochester grew up in Wilmington and is serving her third term in office in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates what?
The emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
When year was the NAACP founded?
1909
He became the first black person to win the Nobel peace prize......
Ralph Bunche
“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”
Michelle Obama
Who became the first African American female to become a billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
What year did Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia helping, nearly 300 other enslaved people escaped via the Underground Railroad?
1859
Baltimore's newspaper, the Afro American was founded by what former slave?
John H. Murphy
“Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book? Just U.S. history.”
Maya Angelou
The first African American Woman in Space, October 17, 1956. Who is she?
Mae Jemison
Who was the first Black woman to set foot on the North Pole and on the South Pole?
Manhattan native Barbara Hillary in 2007 at the age of 75 became the first Black woman to set foot on the North Pole and on the South Pole in 2011.
What year did the freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C?
1961
Richard Allen, born on a Delaware plantation in 1760, founded the first independent Black religious denomination in the United States. What is its name?
Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1794 and was elected the first bishop of the AME church in 1816.
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Malcolm X
Who was the first black American women's bank president?
Meggie Lenna Walker
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta holds this unique distinction after being elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 2018?
Philadelphia native Malcolm Kenyatta became the first LGBTQ person of color elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and one of its youngest members in 2018.