First African Americans
Who was the first golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
A. Tiger Woods
B. Charles Sifford
C. Bill Spiller
Who is Charles Sifford.
This person invented a 100 products using peanuts, not peanut butter.
A. Charles Drew
B. James Baldwin
C. George Washington Carver
Who is George Washington Carver.
One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, he is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
A. Langston Hughes
B. James Baldwin
C. Alex Haley
Who is Langston Hughes.
What state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the southern united states?
A. Separate but equal
B. The three-fifths clause of the United States Constitution
C. Jim Crow
What is Jim Crow.
Who said this....I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.
A. Aretha Franklin
B. Harriet Tubman
C. Saeed Jones
Who is Aretha Franklin.
Who was the first male tennis champion?
A. Arthur Ashe
B. MaliVai Washington
C. James Blake
Who is Arthur Ashe.
She and her husband invented the first home security system in 1966.
A. Marie Van Brittan Brown
B. Sarah Breedlove
C. Shirley Chisholm
Who is Marie Van Brittan Brown.
She was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist.
A. Zora Neale Hurston
B. Maya Angelou
C. Nella Larson
Who is Maya Angelou.
In 1954 he won the Brown vs. The Board of Education case.
A. Jesse Owens
B. Thurgood Marshall
C. Sarah Boone
Who is Thurgood Marshall.
Who said this.......“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” “A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” “Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
A. Martin Luther King Jr.
B. Muhammad Ali
C. Malcolm X
Who is Malcolm X.
Who was the first to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
A. Jesse Jackson
B. Barack Obama
C. Colin Powell
Who is Colin Powell.
Who invented blood banks during WWII?
A. Garrett Morgan
B. Robert H. Lawrence Jr.
C. Charles R. Drew.
Who is Charles R. Drew.
She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.
A. Maya Angelou
B. Jacquelyn Woodson
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks.
She was the first black woman to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1972, she declared her candidacy for the office of president of the United States.
A. Shirley Chisholm
B. Barbara Jordan
C. Fannie Jackson Coppin
Who is Shirley Chisholm.
Who said this......“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.”
A. Nina Simone
B. Jackie Robinson
C. Ella Baker
Who is Nina Simone.
Who was the first to have his likeliness portrayed on a U.S. postage Stamp?
A. Booker T. Washington
B. Frederick Douglas
C. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
She invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Laserphaco Probe, which was patented in 1986.
A. Patricia Bath
B. Henrietta Lacks
C. Ida B. Wells
Who is Patricia Bath.
Which author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for literature. (Hint: her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye").
A. Toni Morrison
B. Alice Walker
C. Nikki Giovanni
Who is Toni Morrison.
In 1964 she was a part of organizing "Freedom Summer" which allowed college students to help with voter registration in the segregated south.
A. Stacey Abrams
B. Angela Davis
C. Fannie Lou Hamer
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer.
Who said this......“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
A. Ruby Nell Bridges
B. Billie Holliday
C. Mary McLeod Bethune
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune.
Who was the first millionaire?
A. Oprah Winfrey
B. Madam C.J. Walker
C. Mignon Francois
Who is Madam C.J. Walker.
This person invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light.
A. W.E.B. Du Bois
B. Langston Hughes
C. Garrett Morgan
Who is Garrett Morgan
This American author and historian was responsible for starting Black History week.
A. Carter G. Woodson
B. Benjamin Banneker
C. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Who is Carter G. Woodson.
She founded "Fair Fight Action" in 2018 which is an organization to fight voter suppression. She also served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007-2017.
A. Stacey Abrams
B. Maxine Waters
C. Kamala Harris
Who is Stacey Abrams.
Who said this......When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
A. Mamie Till
B. Rita Pierson
C. James Baldwin
Who is James Baldwin.