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Important facts, figures, people, places and times in #African-American history
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1
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
first African American woman astronaut
first African American physicist
first African American woman doctor
first African American woman to serve on the Supreme Court
2
This person was the inspiration behind naming the "Underground Railroad".
Barack Obama
Maya Angelou
Tice Davids
Harriett Tubman
3
Who was the first published African American female author?
Gloria Naylor
Maya Angelou
Phillis Wheatley
Toni Morrison
4
How old were Condoleezza Rice and Martin Luther King Jr. when they started college?
17
12
18
15
5
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Clarence Thomas
John Roberts
Thurgood Marshall
William Henry Hastie
6
He was the first African-American man to be the World Heavyweight Champion in 1908.
Jack Johnson
Joe Louis
Muhammad Ali
Sam Langford
7
Which is not true about former first lady Michelle Obama?
She graduated from Princeton Univ. & Harvard Law School.
She created a national campaign against childhood obesity.
She is skipped 2nd grade because she was so smart.
She has two brothers.
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Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Dorothy Dandridge
Hattie McDaniel
Kerry Washington
Halle Berry
9
Which famous Supreme Court Case led to the desegregation of schools?
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
10
Where did W.E.B. Du Bois receive his Ph.D. from?
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale
Princeton
11
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
1st
19th
15th
16th
12
Who's shares a birthday with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination?
Maya Angelou
Taylor Swift
Jennifer Lawrence
Michelle Obama
13
Who is this?
Frederick McKinley
Malcolm X
Frederick Douglass
Garrett Morgan
14
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ralph Bunch
Albert John Lutul
Nelson Mandela
15
Who is this famous author from the Harlem Renaissance?
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Rudyard Kipling
Langston Hughes
Percy Thomas
16
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Octavia Spencer
Kerry Washington
Viola Daivs
Halle Berry
17
What is the name of the first surgeon to separate twins conjoined at the head?
Scott Whitaker
Ben Carson
Rovenia "Ro" Brock
Andrea D. Willis
18
Who wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," about the moral duty to disobey unjust laws?
Martin Luther King
Eric Holder
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
19
This case said segregation was legal, as long as the facilities were "separate but equal".
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
20
Who was the first African American major league baseball player?
Babe Ruth
Jackie Robinson
Satchel Paige
Willie Mays
21
Who was the first professional baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Jason Kipnis
Kris Bryant
Ernie Banks
22
Who holds the Guinness World Record (For men) for the most Grammy Awards won in a year?
Prince
Michael Jordan
Michael Jackson
Jay-Z
23
Who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General?
Loretta Lynch
Condoleeza Rice
Coretta Scott King
Harriet Beecher Stowe
24
Which one of these famous soldiers was actually a women?
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
William Cathay
Crispus Attucks
Lemuel Haynes
25
What amendment gave Blacks the right to vote?
19th
1st
13th
15th
26
Who was the 1st Black president?
Martin Luther King
Shirley Chisolm
Ralph Abernathy
Barack Obama
27
The NAACP was formed in 1909 due mostly to race riots in what U.S. city in 1908?
Springfield, IL
Nashville, TN
Birmingham, AL
Atlanta, GA
28
What year did recognizing Black History start?
1926
1958
1999
1976
29
Who invented the gas mask?
Garrett Morgan
Frederick Douglas
Ralph Abernathy
Eli Whitney
30
What year was the NAACP founded
1965
1927
1909
1973
31
What amendment abolished slavery?
1st
5th
13th
10th
32
Which of these was
NOT
invented by an African American?
3-D Graphics Technology
Pacemaker
Elevator
Ironing Board
33
Which one of these actions did Barack Obama
NOT
do?
Be Nominated for a Kid's Choice Award
Be the First African American President
Win a Grammy
Play on the basketball Team at Harvard
34
Who was the first African American women inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Aretha Franklin
Donna Summers
Darlene Love
Billie Holiday
35
Who was the first Black women to refuse to give up her seat to a White man?
Sarah Keys
Rosa Parks
Ida B. Wells
Claudette Colvin
36
This is the first African American female pilot. Who is she?
Bessie Coleman
Lucille Bluford
Rosa Parks
Madame C. J. Walker
37
Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Paul Roberson
Frederick Douglass
38
Who is Arthur Ashe?
Tennis Player
Doctor
Scientist
Basketball Player
39
Who was the first African American mayor of Kansas City?
Alvin Brooks
Sly James
Buck O'Neil
Emanuel Cleaver
40
Who has the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?
Wilt Chamberlain
Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant
Lebron James
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Who holds the Guinness World Record (For women) for the most Grammy Awards won in a year?
Whitney Houston
Beyoncé
Aretha Franklin
Jennifer Hudson
