Black Greeks
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Air Force History
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100

This is what HBCU stand for.

What is "Historically Black College and University?"

100

The recognition of Black history began as

A. A week

B. A day

C. It was always a month

What is a week

100

What year was the first Tuskegee Airmen squadron formed?

When was 1941?

100

Invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal


Who is Garrett Morgan ?

100

 When did Rosa Parks’ bus boycott happen?

What is December 1955

200

Where was the Black Greek Male Fraternity: 

Kappa Alpha Psi founded?  

 Where is Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana

200

This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960.


Who is Ruby Bridges?

200

First Black woman to enter space

Who is Mae Jemison?

200

What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

What is BET Black Entertainment Television?

200

When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?

What is Aug. 28, 1963



300

The first black sorority was formed on this campus?

What is Howard University?
300

This 1963 march brought over 250,000 people together in support of human civil rights and is where Martin Luther King Jr gave his now iconic "I Have a Dream" speech

What is the March on Washington

300

Which president ended racial segregation in the U.S. armed forces in 1948?

Who is President Harry Truman?

300

Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?


Tuskegee Institute

300

What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?

What is "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"

400

What was the first black Greek sorority?



What is Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. established in 1908.


400

What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?

What is 1863?

400

What year did the first black men graduate from USAFA?

When was 1963?



400

The first black woman to own a TV studio.

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

400

Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?

Who is Maya Angelou

500

What is the name of the first black Greek fraternity for college students?

Alpha Phi Alpha

500

This is the first African American to attempt enrollment into Southern Miss in the late 1950s.

Who is "Clyde Kennard"?

500

Who were the first black graduates from the class of 1963?

Who are Roger Sims, Charles Bush, and Isaac Payne?

500

This African American 16-year old girl led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia

What is Barbara Johns?

500

Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?

What is U.S. Senator

600

A woman of Delta Sigma Theta, she was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. congress and as a major-party U.S. presidential candidate. She also survived three assassination attempts.

Who is Shirley Chisholm

600

He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks.  Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...

Who is Malcom X


600

What was Charles Bush’s self-appointed nickname?

Who is BG1, or Chuck?

600

This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA

What is Hidden Figures?

600

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

Who is Jackie Robinson

700

She once served as California’s attorney general and this AKA is the first female African-American and Asian-American to hold the post. She later became the first African-American and Asian-American woman to hold her current job.

Who is Kamala Harris?

700

The inventor of peanut butter.

Who is George Washington Carver?


700

Who was the first African American USAFA graduate to pilot a spacecraft?

Who is Col. (Ret.) Frederick Gregory ‘64?

700

The first Black governor of Virginia


Who is Douglas Wilder

700

Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955?

Who is Rosa Parks

800

What is the largest HBCU?

What is North Carolina A&T?

800

In 1857, this thriving community of predominantly African-American homeowners were forced to move after the city of New York acquired the land through eminent domain to build what we now know as Central Park. 

What is Seneca Village or Seneca Falls Village?


800

Who was the first African American female pilot in the US Air Force?



Who is Theresa Claiborne?

800

The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.

Who are the Little Rock Nine?


800

Which person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'?

Who is W.E.B. DuBois

900

What was the first Black owned & operated HBCU established in Ohio?

What is Wilberforce University?

900

In America, slaves used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom. 



What are cornrows?



900

Who was the first African American female F-16 fighter pilot in the US Air Force?

Who is Rochelle Kimbrell '98?

900

When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?

What is 1926

900

The name that makes up all of the Black Greek Letter Organizations. 

*Hint* There are 9

What is the Divine 9?

1000

What was the first degree-granting HBCU established in Pennsylvania?

What is Lincoln University?

1000

This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law....



What is the 14th amendment

1000

Who is the first black superintendent of the USAFA?

Who is Lt Gen Richard Clark '86?

1000

The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature

Who is Toni Morrison?

1000

NAACP stands for this



What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?