Black History Trivia

What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini series in 1977 and 1979?

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

Who wrote "Racism 101"?

Where was Malcolm X killed?

Who founded PUSH?

Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?

Which Black Panther Party member also worked as a professor at UCLA?

Who was the 44th President of the US?

Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American to become what?

Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?

What was the first African American owned and operated newspaper?

Who was the first African American actress to win the Triple Crown of Acting?

What African American boxers original name is Cassius Gray?

In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

After 40 years, who became the 2nd black actor to win an Academy Award for best actor?

What is the estimated number of slaves that Harriet Tubman helped save?

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

Who was the first African American major league baseball player?

Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?

What year did segregation end in Virginia?

Who was one of the first African Americans to attend an all white school?

This African American volleyball player helped the US team win the 1st medal at the 1984 Olympics...

Who published the first Black American Women's newspaper in the US?

Who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Who wrote, "Clotel, or the President's Daughter" the first published novel by a black american?

Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany?

Who was the first famous black singer?

Whose autobiography is entitled, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

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Besides helping to free slaves, what else did Harriet Tubman accomplish?

Who organized the Million Man March on October 16, 1995?

What primarily black female college was founded by two white women in Atlanta, Georgia?

Who was the first African American woman chosen as Miss America?

Who wrote "Their Eyes are Watching God"?

Who was the first African American US Senator?

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

Which fourteen year old African American boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who was the first African American representative to be seated in the US House?

Whose quote is this? "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom"

In 1993, this woman became the first African American to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for 6 novels

Who was the first African American president of the American psychological association?

Who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the Surgeon General of the US?

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

Whose screenplay, Georgia,Georgia was the first original script by a black woman to be produced?

What former slave published the newspaper, "The North Star"?

Who was the first known black hairstylist?

What year did Rosa Parks get arrested for not giving up her bus seat?

Who became the first African American female billionaire?

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?