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He was the first African American named chair of the Joint Chief of Staff of the United States military
Who is (General) Colin Powell
Name the African-American man who was the first to give his life in the skirmish later known as the Boston Massacre, which touched off the American Revolution
Chrispus Attucks
Civil Rights activist Stokley Carmichael, leader of the
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee was the first person to popularize this phrase as a slogan for black liberation.
What is "Black Power"
In 1890 Mississippi enacted a poll tax for this purpose.
What was to prevent Blacks from voting
On September 25, 1957, President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division and 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen to Little Rock, Arkansas to do what.
Escort nine black students to Little Rock Central High School.
He was the first African American to serve as the U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Who is Andrew Young
Name the African-American poetess, who in 1950, became the first African- American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Gwendolyn Brooks
An African American scientist, he created a drug that is used to treat glaucoma, a disease that results in blindness.
Who was Percy Julian
n 1905, in New York, 129 African- American intellectuals from 14 states met and organized the Niagara Movement, which became the forerunner of this important civil rights organization, which still exists today. Name the organization.
NAACP
She was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm
His name is Guion "Guy" S. Bluford, Jr.
Who was the first African American in space
One of the earliest novels written by an African American and published was entitled Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States in 1853 in Boston. Who wrote this novel?
William Wells Brown
Congress passed this law in 1807.
What was to ban the importation of slaves into the US
In 1912, he founded the American Colonization Society that grew to become one of the largest and most influential organizations in the African world. At its height, this organization claimed four million dues- paying members, a daily newspaper, a shipping line, and many other impressive enterprises.
Who was Marcus Garvey
She was the first female African American U.S. Senator.
Who is Carol Mosley- Braun
In 1621, William Tucker became the first black child born in the American colonies. Name the place where the first "African American" was born.
January 3, 1624 in Jamestown, VA
She was the first African American to serve as Surgeon General
Who is Dr. Joyce Elders
For six days in August 1965, looting, burning, and rioting plunged this predominantly African-American section of Los Angeles into a state of anarchy, which resulted from the mistreatment of an African-American youth by a white policeman. Name this section of Los Angeles.
Watts
In 1967, Carl Stokes became the first African-American mayor of this major American city.
Cleveland (Ohio)
The effort to coordinate the "sit-in" protest of the Civil Rights Movement led to the founding of what organization?
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
In 1772, Jean Baptiste du Sable was the African-American man who established a small settlement, that later grew to become one of America's greatest cities. The establishment of this Midwest juncture opened new doors to the West and North. Name the city.
Chicago
She was the first African American woman pilot
Who was Bessie Coleman
He was the first African American to bid for the Presidency of the United States of America.
Who is Jesse Jackson, Sr.
In May 1966, this prominent African- American activist spokesman was named as the head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), charting a new course for the "Black Power" doctrine. He is now known as Kwame Tur of the All African People's Revolutionary Party. Who is he?
Stokley Carmichael
This European Nation was the first to stop trading African American slaves to the United States in 1794.
What is France
In 1862, Mary Patterson became the first African American woman to earn a master's degree. What Ohio college awarded her this degree?
Oberlin College
What is the name of the first African- American university founded in the U.S. in Pennsylvania in 1853? It was originally named the Ashmum Institute.
Lincoln University
He was the first African American Mayor of Chicago.
Who was Harold Washington
In what year did President Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves held in rebellious areas be freed?
1863
This was the first state to abolish slavery.
Pennsylvania
In 1892, the first Black college football game was played. Biddle College emerged victorious with a score of 4 to 0. What is the name of the college which lost this historic game?
Livingston College
Who was the first African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby? In 1875 at Churchill Downs he rode to victory on a horse named Aristides.
Oliver Lewis
Who was the first African- American New York City mayor
David Dinkins.
Kwanzaa is celebrated during these dates.
What is December 26 to January 1
What amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave African-Americans the right to vote?
15th Amendment
In 1894 in Cambridge, MA, this important scholar, writer, and philosopher became the first African- American male to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
W. E. B. Dubois
Who was the first African-American to achieve the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army in 1940?
George D. Eastes
n 1817, the American Colonization Society was founded to transport free African-Americans to their ancestral homeland. This organization built a colony in West Africa that became, in 1847, this independent country.
What is Liberia
Name the 1896 court case in which the U.S. Supreme Court gave its approval to segregate public facilities, known as the infamous "Jim Crow" laws?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What is the name of the Florida Indian nation that offered refuge to fugitive slaves, intermarried with them, and fought along with them against the U.S. government in a series of wars in the mid-1800s?
The Seminole Nation
In 1939, Jane Matilda Bolin became the first African-American woman judge. Appointed by the mayor to the Court of Domestic Relations, she achieved her judgeship in what city?
New York
In 1900, he was the first African American Civil War Hero to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
Who was Sergeant William H. Carney
In 1866 Congress passed this law, which confers citizenship on African Americans and grants them equal rights with whites.
What is the Civil Rights Act/The 14th Amendment
On February 1, 1960, African- American college students staged a sit-in at a "white's only" lunch counter in a southern city.
Nashville (Tennessee)
This was the first all-Black religious denomination in the United States
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
Leo Pinckney, an African-American, was the first draftee of World War I. He was notified to appear for a physical examination by Local Board
#44 on August 2nd of what year?
1917
An African American scientist, he created a drug that is used to treat glaucoma, a disease that results in blindness.
Who was Percy Julian
In 1889, Frederick Douglass was appointed U.S. Minister to this Caribbean nation.
Haiti
On September 15, 1963 four young African-American school girls were killed in the bombing of a church in Birmingham. What was the name of the church where these martyrs died?
16th Street Baptist Church
What organization, founded in 1977, was the first African-American political lobbying organization?
Trans Africa