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Who was the first major league baseball player to steal more than 100 bases in a single season?
Maury Wills
Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what year?
2005
P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in U.S. history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S. Senate. What state did he represent?
Louisiana
How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write?
5
What was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II?
6888th Central Postal Battalion or
“Six Triple Eight”
What Black American cowboy invented bulldogging?
Bill Pickett
How many Black Americans received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War?
23
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What is the name of the first all black peacetime regiment in the regular US Army?
Buffalo Soldiers
What was Harriet Tubman's nickname?
Moses
Who was the first Black mayor of a major US city?
Carl B. Stokes
Where was the first “sit-in” at a segregated lunch counter?
Greensboro, North Carolina
What Black American educator also served as an advisor to five U.S. presidents?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Kwanzaa describes what African celebration?
Fall Harvest
How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to rescue Black slaves?
19
Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space?
Bernard Harris Jr.
Who was the first Black American four star general in US military history?
Daniel James Jr.
Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what country?
Egypt
Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her work in entertaining the Work War II allies?
Josephine Baker
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
Bishop Desmond Tutu
What amendment forbids the federal government and states from using a citizen’s race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting.
15th amendment
Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval officers were known as what?
The “Golden 13”
Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones?
Thermostat
What HBCU did Mrs. Terry graduate from?
Thee Alabama State University
Go Hornets!!