FAMOUS BLACK MEN
What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”
Ernie Banks
In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
Where was Jesus born?
Bethlehem
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
Ebenezer Baptist
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Cassius Clay
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Run-DMC
What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promoted racial pride and self improvement?
Universal Negro Improvement and Association and African Communities League
Who wrote many of the letters to churches in the New Testament?
Paul
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?
Stokely Carmichael
Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White House?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
The “Middle Passage”
Who wanted to kill Jesus when he was a baby?
Herod
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
Woolworth's
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play?
Piano
What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit?
Thurgood Marshall
What disease did Jesus heal ten men of?
Leprosy
Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs to raise money for their college. What was the name of the choir?
Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University)
Who was the first Black American to graduate from college?
John Russwurm
What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016?
Soul Train
What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who went on missionary journeys to preach to the Gentiles?
Paul
From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate?
Morehouse College