Civil Rights
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I Have A Dream“ speech?
What is Washington, DC.
What is the name of the first black-owned broadcast company?
What is Black Entertainment Television?
Who is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court?
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Which Black American baseball player broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
Who is the first Black woman to win Miss America?
Who is Vanessa Williams.
What year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is 1955?
Who was the first artists to win a Grammy for Hip-hop/Rap?
Who is DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Who is the 2023 AP Most Valuable Player Award for the NFL?
Who is Lamar Jackson?
Which Black woman was refused to sing at Constitution Hall because she was Black?
Who is Marian Anderson?
Name five current African-American billionaires?
1. Michael Jordan
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Sean (Jay-Z) Carter
4. Robert Smith
5. LeBron James
6. Tyler Perry
7. Tiger Woods
8. Rihanna
Which Black woman became the first major-party Black candidate for President of the United States in 1972?
Who is Shirley Chisholm.
Who is the first Black person to win an Academy Award?
Who is Hattie McDaniels?
What is the name of Maya Angelou’s first published book?
What is “I know why the caged bird sings”
As the first Black aviators to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, these Black men broke through a massive segregation barrier in the American military.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
What is the name of the first Historically Black College (HBCU)?
What Cheyney University.
What landmark piece of civil rights legislation, aimed to eliminate barriers to voting for Black Americans?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is the first Black female sports anchor on a nationally televised show?
Who is Jayne Kennedy.
What is the name of the Black artist who painted the Obamas portraits for the National Portraits Gallery?
Who is Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald?
This Black inventor developed 300 derivative products from peanuts. He is widely known for inventing peanut butter but developed other products from cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics.
Who is George Washington Carver?
What state/colony was the first to ban slavery?
What is Vermont?
These nine children were the first to integrate an all white high school following the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education. What city did this take place?
What is Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was the first Black woman to host her own syndicated talk show?
Who is Della Reese.
Who was the first Black female Gold medalist?
Who is Alice Coachman?
At the turn of the 20th century, African Americans founded and developed the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This community grew and flourished as a Black economic and cultural mecca—until May 31, 1921. What is the name of this community?
What is Black Wall Street?
Who is the first Black person to argue in front of the Supreme Court?
Who is Sam Lowery?