Arts
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
In what TV series was a character named "Buckwheat" one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
Stokely Carmichael
Where was George Washington Carver born?
Diamond, Missouri
Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
WC Handy
Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker‟s best-selling book, The Color Purple ?
Whoopi Goldberg
During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black soldiers in the Steward‟s Branch where they worked as what?
Cooks and waiters
Which two black churches emerged from the Free African Society?
the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and the St. Thomas‟s African Episcopal Church in 1794
What Black American developed a treatment for arthritis?
Dr. Percy Julian
What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender?
Ulysses and Robert Poston
What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You, ”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”?
Whitney Houston
In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white abolitionist?
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
The “Middle Passage”
Who was the first Black American member of the National Academy of Sciences?
David H. Blackwell
Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an African American father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A Red Death , White Butterfly , and Black Betty?
Walter Mosley
Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Platters
What author of My American Journey commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY in 1976?
Colin Powell
What was the name of the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else‟s land and received a split of the season‟s crop?
Sharecropping
What doctor attended President James Garfield after he was shot?
Dr. Charles Purvis
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and the Indianapolis Ledger ?
William Alexander Chambers
Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came You with a popular male group and it went gold as well. What is the name of the group?
The Spinners
Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?
Buffalo Soldiers
What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to the North?
Sojourner Truth
What physicist and Morehouse College graduate received the first Professor Arturo Miolati Prize for outstanding scientific achievement for his work on fragment molecules known as free radicals?
Dr. Dolphus Milligan