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What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Who was the first Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee?
Morehouse College
Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to become the first African American to win the Kentucky Education Association President's Spelling Bee?
jodhpurs
Xavier University was the first black Catholic college. It opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high school. In what year was the college department added?
1925
In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman was known as "The Richest Negro in the South?"
Peter Postel (or Postell), Sr.
What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in 1713?
England
Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was originally named the State Normal School for Colored Persons?
Kentucky State University
Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and member of the Kentucky Board of Education served in the U.S. Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught foreign languages?
Dr. Clyde B. Akins, Sr.
In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black woman president of what major university?
California State University at Fullerton
Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing company. Name it.
Johnson Publishing
Company
Elaine Farris became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school district?
Shelby County
In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university?
Howard University
The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 to provide financial support to students who are enrolled in what educational institutions?
Historically black colleges and universities (or HBCUs)
What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Black Newspaperwoman
What US federal government agency founded over 4000 schools, including Howard University?
Freedmen‟s Bureau
Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia?
Benjamin E. Mays
How did Barney Ford make his fortune?
As a hotel and restaurant owner
What company has a successful series of television commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby?
During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
Holland and Portugal
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
What are the nine Greek Letter organizations that African Americans join known as?
The Divine Nine
Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was founded in what year?
1837