BLACK HISTORY
What is the name of the first black Greek fraternity for college students?
Alpha Phi Alpha
One of my paintings sold for $110.5 million, which is the highest priced work by an American artist, who am I?
Who is Jean Michel Basquiat
This RnB crooner with hits like "Pretty Wings" and "Sumthin Sumthin" was born in raised in ENY?
Who is Maxwell?
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
In November 1945 was the date this well-known black magazine went on sale. Name the magazine.
What is Ebony Magazine
In what city was the NAACP founded?
What is New York City?
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?
What is the Dred Scott case?
First Black woman to enter space
Who is Mae Jemison?
This East New York Park is named after the first Black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Political activist and revolutionary co founder of the Black Panther Party for self-defense in 1966. Allied for freedom, full employment and decent housing, education, and military exemption for African-Americans. Killed August 22nd 1989
Who is Huey P. Newton, Ph. D?
The first Black owned and operated hospital in America, was founded by whom in 1891?
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
He started the "Back to Africa Movement" and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA
What is Hidden Figures?
The youngest person to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
Who is Quvenzhane Wallis?
First African American to hold a seat on the Surpreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
What was the emancipation proclamation?
What is "In 1863, nearing the third year of the Civil War, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In it, he declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Ironically, it did not technically set free any slaves in northern states—Lincoln reportedly didn’t want to alienate any slave states that were still loyal to the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed Black soldiers to fight in the Union army. "
What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
What is BET Black Entertainment Television?
First African American to win a nobel prize for literature?
Who is Toni Morrison
This is what HBCU stand for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
What Park in East New York Brooklyn name is the Ghanaian Twi word for "looking back to go foward"?
Sankofa Park
The first African American to serve as president
Who is Barack Obama?
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?
Tuskegee Institute
The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?