Sports
How many times did Kobe Bryant win the NBA Championship?
5 times
What was Black History Month previously known as?
Negro History Week
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
Who wrote the autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass
What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Who was the second Black player to play in Major League Baseball, debuting for the Cleveland Indians in 1947?
Larry Doby
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech?
1963
In what year did amateur night at New York’s famous Apollo Theater begin?
1934
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American woman astronaut?
Mae Jemison
Who won the Ladies’ World Figure Skating Championship in 1986?
Debi Thomas
What year was the 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
What was the only Southern state to permit slave enlistments in the military in 1780?
South Carolina
Who is known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"?
Rosa Parks
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
Booker T. Washington
Who was the first African American heavyweight boxing champion?
Jack Johnson
Who signed Executive Order 9981, ending racial discrimination in the U.S. armed forces?
President Harry S. Truman
What phrase that became a mass social movement was coined by Alicia Garza in 2013?
Black Lives Matter
Who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights?
Bayard Rustin
Which Black writer was granted a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020?
Ida B. Wells
NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal began his career with which team?
Orlando Magic
What year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Maya Angelou
What was the purpose of the Black Panther Party?
To protect Black communities and promote self-defense, social programs, and equality
Jordan Peele is the first Black person to win which Academy Award?
Best Original Screenplay (Get Out, 2017)