It's the 1st!
Who is the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era?
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Who separated Siamese twins at the cranium in 1987?
Dr. Ben Carson.
What is the name of the Harlem theatre that showcases for African American Talent?
The Apollo
At the tender age of six, who advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
Ruby Bridges.
She is 67 now.
Who Lives Matters?
Black Live Matter
Who is the first African American Female Millionaire
Madam C. J. Walker
What was the first hospital of it's kind to aid in the medical treatment of former slaves?
Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, DC.
Now known as Howard University Hospital!
How many Black artists have won an Oscar?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 50
Only 20 Black artists.
(Fun fact, Haley Berry is the only black woman to win Best Acrtess)
How many HBCU (Historically Black Colleges or Universities) are there?
101 HBCU's in 19 states!
What amendment to the constitution banned slavery?
13th amendment
Who is the first African American to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel (best Supporting Acrtess, Gone with the Wind)
Who Performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Which of these artists have NOT won album of the year at the Grammys?
a. Stevie Wonder
b. Outkast
c. Beyonce
d. Whitney Houston
Beyonce?!
Out of the Divine Nine: Which Greek Organization was first to establish?
a. Alpha Phi Alpha
b. Alpha Kappa Alpha
c. Phi Beta Sigma
d. Zeta Phi Beta
Alpha Phi Alpha, Founded in 1906 at Cornell University
Who was the Black Spy who infiltrated the Confederate White House?
Mary Bowser.
She was formerly enslaved and spied on the President of the Confederate (loser) Jefferson Davis. She had a photographic memory and while she swept and dusted she read the plans and documents that were laid out or hidden in desks
Who was the First African American and second woman to publish a book of poems?
Phillis Wheatley (born in 1753, brought to America in 1761)
Who was a pioneer researcher in blood plasma for transfusion and in the development of blood banks.
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
What was the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
1. Telfar
2. BET Black Entertainment Television
3. Oprah Winfrey Network OWN
4. AJ Crimson Beauty
BET Black Entertainment Television
Which of these schools is not an HBCU.
a. Hampton University
b. Savannah State University
c. Virginia Union University
d. Winchester University
Winchester University, fictional university from Dear White People
Who is known as the mother of the Civil Rights Movement?
Ella Baker
Who was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a 'queen of drag'?
William Dorsey Swann (1858 - 1925)
Who never consented to having her cervial cells taken and cultured in a lab, but her cells were the first known human immortal cells used in medical research?
Henrietta Lacks.
Her cells have been used in research for AIDS, cancer, gene mapping, and other scientific work.
Between 2017 - 2021: 1330 movies were released in America. How many were black leads or predominately black cast?
a. 138
b. 42
c. 307
138 movies. And about 42 of them were about black trauma
What year was the last school desegregated?
2016.
The case to desegregate the school originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader, Diane Cowan. They were 57 once the school was finally desegregated.
What was one of the first Black Activist Feminist publishing houses?
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press