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This is first black Greek fraternity for college students.
a. Phi Beta Sigma
b. Alpha Phi Alpha
c. Omega Psi Phi
What is Alpha Phi Alpha?
She was the first African-American chosen as Miss America.
a. Misty Copeland
b. Dominique Dawes
c. Vanessa Williams
Who is Vanessa Williams?
This President recognized Black History Month in 1976.
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
Who is Gerald Ford?
In 1940 this person became the first African- American to be on a US postage stamp
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Langston Hughes
c. Harriet Tubman
d. Duke Ellington
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This person was the first African American billionaire.
1. Jay-Z
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Tyler Perry
4. Bob Johnson
Who is Bob Johnson, co-founder of BET?
This person invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light.
a. J.P Knight
b. Garrett Morgan
c. Benjamin Franklin
Who is Garrett A. Morgan?
This person invented hundreds of products using peanuts, but not peanut butter.
a. Garrett Morgan
b. George Washington Carver
c. Booker T. Washington
Who is George Washington Carver?
She was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
a. Halle Berry
b. Hattie McDaniel
c. Whitney Houston
Who is Halle Berry?
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this educational institution.
a. Spelman College
b. Morehouse College
c. Tuskegee Institute
d. Wiley College
What is Tuskegee Institute?
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls.
a. Angela Bassett
b. Jennifer Hudson
c. Halle Barry
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
This Harlem theater is a showcase for African- American talent.
The Apollo
This 1865 amendment to the constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
She was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
a. Dominique Dawes
b. Janet Jackson
c. Misty Copeland
Who is Misty Copeland?
In 1991 this became the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
a. UPN
b. BET-Black Entertainment Television
c. Oprah Winfrey Network OWN
d. Johnson Products
BET- Black Entertainment Television
Jackie Robison was the first African-American to play major league baseball for this team.
a. New York Mets
b. New York Yankees
c. Brooklyn Dodgers
d. New York Giants
What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?
He was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
a. Sidney Poitier
b. Danny Glover
c. Sammy Davis, Jr.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
He was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard, which now has the oldest institute for Afro-American studies named after him.
1. W.E.B. DuBois
2. Marcus Garvey
3. Louis Farrakhan
4. Elijah Muhammad
Who is DuBois?
This American author and historian was responsible for starting Black History week?
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Carter G. Woodson
c. Frederick Douglass
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This was the nickname of the Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighting Group that was renowned in WWII for its 1,578 combat missions and the highest safety record for bomber escorts.
a. Blue Aces
b. Red Tails
c. Black Angels
d. Wings of Destruction
What are the Red Tails?
This person holds the highest lifetime number of Grammy Awards with 32.
a Quincy Jones
b. Stevie Wonder
c. Kanye West
d. Beyonce
Who is Beyonce?
They were the black soldiers who primarily fought in the West after the Civil War.
a. Buffalo Soldiers
b. Black Calvary
c. Volunteer Infantry
Who were Buffalo Soldiers?
This controversial 1857 case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black - free or slave, could be a US citizen.
a. Fergusson case
b. Wade case
c. Dred Scott case
What is the Dred Scott case?
I was a surgeon and pioneer in the field of blood transfusions. I directed the blood plasma of the US and the UK during WWII and am considered "the father of the blood bank."
a. James Baldwin
b. Charles Drew
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Ben Carson
Who is Charles Drew?
In 1968 I was the first African American woman in Congress and in 1972 I was the first woman and the first African American to seek the nomination for President of the United States.
a. Althea Gibson
b. Constance Baker Motley
c. Shirley Chisholm
d. Maxine Waters
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
In 1887 this man invented automatically opening and closing elevator doors after his daughter fell down an elevator shaft and was seriously injured when someone forgot to manually close the shaft door.
a. Alexander Miles
b. James West
c. Benjamin Banneker
Who is Alexander Miles?