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100

The recognition of Black history began as

A. A week

B. A day

C. It was always a month

What is a week

100

What year was the first Tuskegee Airmen squadron formed?

When was 1941

100

What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

What is BET Black Entertainment Television

100

NAACP stands for this



What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

100

This historian started Negro history week, later renamed Black History Month in 1976.  He was also notably the second African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree.

Carter G. Woodson

200

This 6 year old is responsible for desegregating schools in 1960.


Who is Ruby Bridges

200

Who is the 44th president of the United States?

Who is Barack Obama

200

Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of what educational institution?


Tuskegee Institute

200

Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?

Who is Maya Angelou

200

The first African-American woman to win the academy award for best actress

Who is Halle Berry? In Monster Ball

Interestingly, Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress in 1939), was not allowed to attend the national premiere of Gone With The Wind, the film featuring her award-winning performance, because she was black.

300

What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?

What is 1863

300

Which president ended racial segregation in the U.S. using armed forces in 1948?

Who is President Harry Truman

300

The first black woman to own a TV studio.

Who is Oprah Winfrey

300

What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?

What is "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"

300

This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 total)



Who is Beyonce?



400

He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks.  Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...

Who is Malcom X


400

What year did the first black men graduate from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)?

When was 1963



400

This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA

What is Hidden Figures?

400

When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?

What is Aug. 28, 1963



400


Laws that created a system of legal segregation.




What are Jim Crow Laws?

500

The inventor of peanut butter.

Who is George Washington Carver


500

The first African American woman Supreme Court Justice and an honorary Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. member.

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson



500

The first group of students integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.

Who are the Little Rock Nine


500

Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017), he served as what?

What is U.S. Senator

500

He was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and a great poet, activist, novelist and playwright.  One poem he wrote is, "Dream deferred"

Who is Langston Hughes?



600

In America, enslaved Africans used this hairstyle as a map on their journey to freedom. 



What are cornrows



600

First Black woman to enter space

Who is Mae Jemison?

600

Black History month began as a week, when did it begin

What is 1926

600

Which person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'?

Who is W.E.B. DuBois

600

The year Loretta Lynch become the first African American women to be a U.S Attorney General.





What is 2015?

700

This Constitutional Amendment gave Black people equal protection under the law....



What is the 14th amendment

700

A woman of Delta Sigma Theta, she was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. congress and as a major-party U.S. presidential candidate. She also survived three assassination attempts.

Who is Shirley Chisholm

700

What council was established on May 10, 1930

What is the National Panhellenic Council (NPHC)

700

This fraternity is the first intercollegiate Greek-letter organization founded for Black men in the United States 

What is Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.?

700

As of January 20, 2021, there have been 1,994 members of the United States Senate, This many were African American.

What is 11?