Arts & Entertainment
The Four Tops, the Tempataition, Martha and the Vandellas, and Mary Wells came from what major city
Detroit
Who was known as Dr. J?
Julius Erving
Carol Moseley-Braun was the first African American woman elected to the U.S.
Senate
Where was George Washington Carver's lab?
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
What amendment to the Constitution states "Slavery shall not exist in any part of the U.S.
13th amendment
Who founded the magazine Ebony
John H. Johnson
For what baseball team did Ernie Banks play?
Chicago Cubs
What internationally renounced actor had his U.S. passport revoked for his activities in left-wing unions, the Progressive Party, the Council on African Affairs, and the National Negro Congress?
Paul Robeson
Wilt Chamberlain scored a record-setting 100 points in 1962 while playing for what team?
Philadelphia Warrirors
Who founded an economic program called "People United to Save Humanity" also known as Operation PUSH
Jesse Jackson
Who was the first black woman to own a TV studio
Oprah Winfrey
On May 25, 1935, who set world records in three different track events?
Jesse Owens
Who was elected to Congress in 1944 and became the first congressperson to represent the district of Harlem?
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in what year?
1863
What African American union organizer helped open the door for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation outlawing job discrimination?
Philip Randolph
Mary Leontyne Price is famous for being
An opera Singer
What professional boxer was stripped of his title by the World Boxing Association after he was convicted of draft evasion?
Muhammad Ali
What were the black soldiers who primarily fought Native Americans in the West after the Civil War called?
Buffalo Soldiers
Who was the first African American to win a medal in the Winter Olympics?
Debi Thomas
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Who wrote the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
James Weldon Johnson
Who became the first black player to quarterback a Super Bowl to victory?
Doug Williams
What African American revolutionary led colonial forces during the Boston Massacre in 1770, becoming "the first to defy, and the first to die."
Crispus Attucks
Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution
Tuskegee Institute
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest ranking military officer- and first African American and the youngest man to hold this post?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff