History
I WAS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO HAVE HER OWN TELEVISION SHOW (1986) I AM ALSO ONE OF RICHEST WOMEN IN AMERICA.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
What is the Underground Railroad
Which amendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th amendment
Who delivered the speech "Ain't I Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth
I WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO SERVE AS A MAYOR OF A MAJOR WASHINGTON, DC
Who is SHARON PRATT KELLY DIXON?
In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
What is the Nation of Islam
This landmark case desegregated public schools
What is Brown vs Board of Education
Who helped secure the freedom of at least 300 slaves and served as a spy and scout for the Union Army?
Who is Harriet Tubman
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
What is Woolworth's
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale are the founders of this organization?
Who are the Black Panthers
In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called?
What is Jim Crow
She is the first published African American poet (Hint: she was also a slave)
Who is Phillis Wheatley
What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War?
Reconstruction
I WAS THE FIRST BLACK SECRETARY OF STATE
WHO IS CONDOLEEZA RICE?
The meaning of the acronym NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
the Amendment which granted African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th?
Who was first woman of color to go into space on the shuttle Endeavor in 1992?
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Who is Emmet Till
I WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWYER ADMITTED TO THE BAR
WHO IS CHARLOTTE RAIN?
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), was from where?
Where is Jamaica?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage
Who is Mary Church Terrell?