General Black History Month Trivia
What month is Black History Month Celebrated?
February
Who is Alexander Miles
Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front, self-identified drag queen and one of the prominent figures of the Stonewall Uprisings
Marsha P. Johnson
He wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Which month is Black Catholic History Month?
November
What is the 2021 Black History Month Theme?
1) The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
2) African Americans and the Vote
3) The Crisis in Black Education
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
Since 1975, every US president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.
Who invented hair products that led her to become one of America's first self-made millionaires?
Madam C.J. Walker
Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. Most notably known for organizing marches on the American South, one of which became known as Bloody Sunday.
John Lewis
Maya Angelou
Who served as the first Executive Director of the National Office for Black Catholics?
Which President Officially Recognized Black History Month?
President Gerald Ford
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
1) J.P. Knight
2) Garrett Morgan
3) Morgan Freeman
2) Garrett Morgan - entrepreneur and business man who also invented the gas mask.
In 1969 this person became the first Black Woman elected to Congress
Shirley Chisolm
UCLA Historian who wrote Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Robin D.G. Kelley
The first community of Black Catholic Nuns organized in the South and the second in the United States
The Sisters of the Holy Family
Which historian is credited with creating Black History Month?
1) Stephen G. Hall
2) Barbara Ransby
3) Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
The first Black Woman to receive a doctorate from MIT and led the research that developed caller ID and call waiting
1) Marie Van Brittan Brown
2) Shirley Ann Jackson
3) Sarah Boone
Dr. Angela Y. David
This author references the work of Octavia Butler in their book Emergent Strategy
adrienne maree brown
What year did American Bishops denounce racial prejudice as immoral for the first time?
1958
What year did Black History Month become nationally recognized?
1) 1976
2) 1979
3) 1966
1976
A scientist from North Carolina who led the effort to create the Moderna vaccine
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
Which Black mathmatician was a surveyor who helped plan the District of Columbia?
1) Benjamin Banneker
2) David Blackwell
3) Melba Roy Mouton
Benjamin Banneker in 1790 - Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught.
The Combahee River Collective
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