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This was the first black collegiate Greek fraternity for college students.
a. Phi Beta Sigma
b. Alpha Phi Alpha
c. Omega Psi Phi
What is Alpha Phi Alpha?
Jackie Robinson was the first black player allowed to play in the Major Leagues of Baseball. In what year did Jackie break the color barrier?
a. 1947
b. 1955
c. 1951
What is 1947?
This President recognized Black History Month in 1976.
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
Who is Gerald Ford?
This person created over 300 products using peanuts, but not peanut butter.
a. Garrett Morgan
b. George Washington Carver
c. Booker T. Washington
Who is George Washington Carver?
This was the first Black woman to own a TV network.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This person invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light.
a. J.P Knight
b. Garrett A. Morgan
c. Benjamin Franklin
Who is Garrett A. Morgan?
This black basketball player could speak English, Spanish, and Italian.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This person invented the refrigerated truck in 1940.
a. Frederick McKinley Jones
b. Alexander Mills
c. Lewis Latimer
Frederick McKinley Jones
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls.
a. Angela Bassett
b. Halle Berry
c. Jennifer Hudson
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
This Harlem theatre is a showcase for African- American talent.
What is The Apollo?
This fullback for the Cleveland Browns had an NFL average of 5.22 yards per carry during his football career. He would later become a prominent civil rights activist.
a. Walter Payton
b. Marcus Allen
c. Jim Brown
Who is Jim Brown?
This American diplomat and political scientist is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and was previously the U.S. Secretary of State.
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
This medical doctor and scientist was very interested in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions. He also developed uniform procedures & standards for removing plasma from blood.
a. James Baldwin
b. Fredrick Douglass
c. Charles Drew
Who is Charles Drew?
This African American model invented the word "smize".
Who is Tyra Banks?
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this educational institution.
a. Rutgers University
b. Seton Hall University
c. Tuskegee Institute
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This boxer has a cookbook titled, "Food for Life".
a. Laila Ali
b. Sugar Ray Leonard
c. George Foreman
Who is Laila Ali?
This American author and historian was responsible for starting Black History week.
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Carter G. Woodson
c. Frederick Douglass
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This aerospace engineer and inventor holds more than 80 U.S. patents, but it is his invention of the Super Soaker toy that is perhaps his most endearing claim to fame.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
This was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year.
a. Da Brat
b. Foxy Brown
c. Lauryn Hill
Who is Lauryn Hill?
They were the black soldiers who primarily fought in the West following the Civil War.
a. Buffalo Soldiers
b. Black Calvary
c. Volunteer Infantry
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
In 1992, Dominique Dawes and Elizabeth Okino became the first Black Athletes to compete in what Olympic sport?
a. Tennis
b. Gymnastics
c. Track
What is Gymnastics?
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black person, free or enslaved, could be a U.S. citizen.
a. Fergusson case
b. Roe vs. Wade case
c. Dred Scott case
What is the Dred Scott case?
This inventor transformed the internet with Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
a. Marie Van Brittan Brown
b. Dr. Marian Croak
c. Dr. Jane Cooke Wright
Who is Dr. Marian Croak?
This person was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a supporting role.
a. Hattie McDaniel
b. Danny Glover
c. Sidney Poitier
Who is Hattie McDaniel?