Black History 1
What state was Barack Obama the senator of before his presidency?
Who made history with the first rap song to win Grammy Awards for Song and Record of the Year in 2019?
Childish Gambino - This is America
Who was the first rapper to win a Grammy?
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
This woman was the first to win five Grammy Awards in one year.
Lauryn Hill
Who was the first black NBL player?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Halle Berry
What was the name of the Fourteen-year-old who was murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Emmett Till
In 1953, First black bus boycott was in what city and state?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Who was the first African American Woman to host a television show?
Oprah Winfrey
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
Plessy v Ferguson
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first African American female pilot?
Bessie Coleman
In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?
1619
What did Union General, William Sherman's, issue freed African American families in 1865?
40 acres and a mule
Who was the first African American to hold a seat in the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
What was the first degree granting HBCU?
Lincoln University
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
The North Star
This African American woman is recorded as the first black self-made millionaire in the U.S. Who is she?
Madam C. J. Walker
This musical genre emerged for three heavily populated black isolated areas: The Mississippi Delta, The Piedmont east Texas?
Blues
What was the first black sorority to be founded?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Achievements of Colored People
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford
In 1942 What branch of the US Armed forces became the last to admit blacks?
US marine corps