The Firsts
In what Year
The Famous
Film & Culture
Prominent People
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What is the first black secretary of the state
Colin Powell
100
What is the year that the National Association for the Advancement of colored people founded
1909
100
What is the author of the "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
Martin Luther King
100
What is the name of the film that was based in antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery
12 Years a Slave
100
What is the name of the prominent women who is Dubbed the "Mother of the modern-day Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa parks
200
What is the first black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
200
What is the year that slavery was abolished
1865
200
What is the name of the music composer and producer that is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time
Quincy Jones
200
What is the film that shows the story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball
42
200
Aaron Douglas What is the name of a painter in geometric design who was influenced by jazz music and folk traditions during the Harlem Renaissance period
Aaron Douglas
300
What is the first black female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
300
What is the year that the emancipation proclamation signed
1863
300
What is the singer/songwriter that set the 2006 Guinness world Record for the most awarded female artist of all time
Whitney Houston
300
What is the name of the film that features Denzel Washington that a rookie cop goes on a 24-hour training course with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Training Day
300
What is the name of the black artist who painted the Hudson River landscape and the Floral still lifes
Robert Scott Duncanson
400
What is the first black miss america
Vanessa Williams
400
What is the year that Malcolm X was assassinated
1965
400
What is the name of the black actor that played a main character in the movies Radio, Men of Honor, and Boyz n the hood?
Cuba Gooding Jr.
400
What is the film that was a dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Roots
400
What is the name of the first black women who had solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York, was an activist for modernist art, art education for blacks, and the needs of the young people in Washington DC
Alma Woodsey Thomas
500
What is the first black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
500
What is the year that MLK delivered his famous "dream" speech
1963
500
What is the author of the famous quote "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything"
Malcolm X
500
What is the name of the film that showed true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit
Remember the Titans
500
What is the name of this dominant figure in African-American history from 1890 to 1915; he did much to improve the friendship and working relationship between the races
Booker T. Washington