History in Accounting & Finance
Who became the first Black CPA in the United States in 1921?
John W. Cromwell Jr.
What historic Black community in Oklahoma was known as 'Black Wall Street'?
Greenwood District (Tulsa)
Who became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history?
Amanda Gorman
Who is NABA's current national president?
Guylaine Saint Juste
What Chicago mayor appointed the city’s first Black female Chief Financial Officer in the 21st century?
Lori Lightfoot
Approximately what percentage of CPAs in the United States identify as Black?
Roughly 1–2% (varies slightly by year, consistently underrepresented)
Who was the first Black female self-made millionaire in America?
Annie Malone.... not Madam C.J. Walker
Who is known as the Queen of Soul?
Aretha Franklin
Where was NABA founded?
New York City
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881?
Booker T. Washington
What major barrier prevented many Black accountants from becoming CPAs before the 1960s?
Segregation - Inability to obtain supervised experience under white CPAs due to segregation
Who founded FUBU?
Daymond John
Who founded BET and later became the first Black majority owner of an NFL team?
Robert L. Johnson
What year was the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) founded?
1969
Who became the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company in 2001?
Kenneth Frazier
Before desegregation, many Black accountants built careers serving what type of clients excluded from white accounting firms?
Black-owned businesses, churches, fraternal organizations, and segregated institutions
What Black-owned brokerage firm, founded in 1982, became the largest minority-owned investment bank in the U.S.?
Loop Capital
Who became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Toni Morrison
Who was one of NABA’s co-founders and its first president?
Frank L. Ross
Who was the first Black American to win an Olympic gold medal (1904)?
George Poage
Who was the first African-American woman to be a certified public accountant in the United States and in what state did she pass the related exam?
Mary T. Washington in Chicago, Illionis
What 1865 order promised formerly enslaved families “40 acres and a mule”?
Special Field Orders No. 15
Who was the first Black EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) set winner?
Whoopi Goldberg
Who was the founder of the NABA Chicago Chapter?
John Adams
Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968?
Shirley Chisholm