Business & Education
Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first black radio station in Detroit, in 1964?
William Venoid Banks
Who built San Francisco‟s first hotel and opened California‟s first public school?
William Leidesdorff
Who was the first African American appointed to the executive board of the Hopkinsville Chamber of Commerce and also the first to chair the Area Development District in Kentucky?
Walton N. Smith
What is the real name of Famous Amos?
Wally Amos
What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans to be imported to the Americas?
Tobacco
What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry?
Prince Hall
What was Madame C.J. Walker‟s real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance Corporation?
Robert Moton
Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?
Modeling
What company‟s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald‟s voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
Who was the first Black network television anchor?
Max Robinson
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed its name to what?
Indiana Herald
Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship?
Hugh Mulzac
During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
Holland and Portugal
What is the name of Oprah Winfrey‟s TV production company?
Harpo Productions
Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type of business?
Grocery store
What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom‟s Journal
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
What company was the largest slave-trading operation in the south?
Franklin and Arnold
What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
Flooding
What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in 1713?
England
What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes?
Ed Bradley
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
Cotton
What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson‟s gospel music to a large audience?
Columbia Records
Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station?
CNN
In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio program. On what radio network was the show aired?
CBS
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
What was the name of Marcus Garvey‟s shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks?
Black Star Line
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Black Newspaperwoman
n 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel The Fire in the Flint , which covered what subject?
Bigotry
Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine?
Beverly Johnson
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world's first living trademark as the image what product?
Aunt Jemima pancake mix
What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well as technicians?
American Negro Theatre
Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine that focuses on black history and culture.
American Legacy
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive at Jamestown, Virginia?
1619
Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor union for black train porters, approximately how much money were these workers paid per day?
$2.00
Who was the first Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?
United Negro College Fund
“Bullet” Bob Hayes and tennis great, Althea Gibson, attended which HBCU?
Florida A&M University
Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce University in Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of what church?
the Methodist Episcopal church
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?
the Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University)
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
How many historically black colleges and universities are there today in the United Sates?
105
What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door- to-door?
Hair care preparation products