Black History Month
Who was first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
This amazing man is the self-proclaimed "greatest boxer of all-time" was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th Century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who was the first self-made African American Millionaire through selling hair products?
What movie tells the true story of how the US Space program really got off the ground?
Hidden Figures
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the southern farmers and brought an economic depression?
Cotton
In what year were the first Africans brought to the Americans to work as slaves?
1619
Who was the first African American Olympian to win the all-around title in gymnastics?
A) Gabby Douglas
B) Serena Williams
C) Simone Biles
A) Gabby Douglas
Who was the first African American man to hold the World Heavyweight Championship boxing title?
A) Muhammad Ali
B) Joe Lewis
C) Jack Johnson
D) Max Baer
C) Jack Johnson
What recent movie chronicles the death of a teenage boy from Chicago in Mississippi?
Till
Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
A) Denzel Washington
B) Hallie Berry
C) Sidney Poitier
D) Cicily Tyson
C) Sidney Poitier
Who was the first major party African American candidate to run for the Presidency in 1972?
Shirley Chisholm
Which movie is based on the American classic Reconstruction novel written by Alice Walker?
The Color Purple
What's the Swahili word for "First Fruits"?
Kwanzaa
Who invented the traffic signal?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) Garret Morgan
C) George Washington Carver
B) Garret Morgan
What music genre emerged for three heavily populated black isolated areas: The Mississippi Delta, The Piedmont, and East Texas?
The Blues
Who was the first African American to publish a book of poetry?
A) James Baldwin
B) Langston Hughes
C) Phillis Wheatley
C) Phillis Wheatley
Name the movie: "You got fired on your day off!"
Friday
Which slave sailed himself to freedom during the Civil War? Went on to become a US Congressman?
A) Frederick Douglas
B) Booker T. Washington
C) Robert Smalls
D) John Brown
C) Robert Smalls
What holiday created in the 1960's celebrates African Harvest traditions the last week of the year?
Kwanzaa
Who is the African American entertainer to win a Grammy Award, Golden Globe Award, MTV Video Award, and the NAACP Image Award?
Prince
Name the two current African American Supreme Court Justices?
Clarence Thomas , Ketanji Brown Jackson
What movie chronicles the life and death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton?
Judas and the Black Messiah
What was the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921?
Black Wall Street