NAACP BHB QUESTIONS

What year was Benedict College founded in?

Convicted for trespassing, sat at a “Whites Only” lunch counter, men had convictions reversed.

"Go Down, Moses" is most commonly known as an example of what musical genre?

Where was writer, director, and producer Spike Lee born?

James Brown was born in what city?

Why is Brown vs. Board of Education such an important court case

What is the oldest Christian country on the face of the earth?

What is an abolitionist

Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

Tony Fisher was the was the first African-American to become police chief of what city?

What does felony disenfranchisement mean

Who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to train Black Teachers?

Which African American invented the straightening comb

What country has the highest rate of incarceration in the world?

What does the Church Acronym NBCUSA, Inc stand for?

Sarah Breedlove was the birth name of what black millionaire?

Which African American invented the thermostat control

Who founded Operation Push and the Rainbow Coalition?

James Brown is often referred to as "The Godfather" of what?

1st Afr. Am. tennis player compete at US Natl Championship 1950, 1st black compete at Wimbledon

Born in Barnwell, SC, an Am. singer/dancer. The Godfather of Soul. His career was 6 decades

First Afr. Am. actress star in a Broadway play; name the play and year she played the role?

Born in SC in 1977, played the role of Jackie Robinson in the movie “42” and "Black Panther"?

Served as a founding member of the SNCC and founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

What is the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's published work of 1852

Black SC student had a library named after death on the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger

Althea Gibson is the first female player to break the color line in what sport

Who became the first black U.S. District Court Judge in South Carolina?

What year did Shirley Chisholm run for President of the United States of America?

Actress and comedian who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award (EGOT)?

What does the Church Acronym AMEZ stand for?

When did Dr. Martin L. King deliver his "I have a Dream" Speech

College founded in 1869 after Civil War by missionaries to educate freedmen and their children

Attended Carver High School. Chief designer of Mattel’s Barbie fashions and doll concepts.

Tyra Banks obtained what degree from UCLA?

Founded in 1869 in Orangeburg, SC. #8 best HBCU in nation by US News and World Report in 2015.

After the Civil War, African Americans were arrested and imprisoned for what minor crimes?

2016 what percentage of the US population was incarcerated

The film that was widely heralded as a catalyst for the rebirth of the Klu Lux Klan

What is the birth date of James Edward Talley?

What kind of surgeon was Dr. Ben Carson

held meetings at home to collect arms for uprising he planned for 9,000 African Americans in SC

What chapter in Deuteronomy speaks to the blessings and cursing of God’s chosen people

author of the 1852 book The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People

Who were the "Little Rock Nine"?

What does the Church Acronym AME stand for?

Who played Professional Baseball as the first woman pitcher from 1953 to 1955?

Who is the only African-American honored by national holiday?

Mother - slave, father -Confederate soldier. 1st black man admitted to Johns Hopkins University

appointed to US Court of Military Appeals by Pres Ford. 1st black US District Court Judge in SC

The mailbox was invented by this African American?

What does CORE mean?

Stokely Carmichael was the first to use what popularized slogan?

What are the largest contributors to health inequities?

HBCU founded on 110-acre plantation in Columbia, SC, by the American Bapt. Home Mission Society

Born in Bennettsville, SC, activist during Civil War, 1st Afr Am. woman to pass bar Mississippi

jr Senator for SC appointed as Senator in 2013, filled the US Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint

Wrote play Trouble in Mind and the young adult novel A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich.

The poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” name 3 African rivers the author has images of

Example why equality is not enough

chapter and verse in the Bible instructed Joseph Jesus dad to take his family to Egypt and hide

Ta-Nehisi Coates attended what HBCU?

Which African American invented the tricycle

Why is Plessy vs. Ferguson such an important court case

In 2015, how many Americans had diabetes?

What does the Church Acronym GUF stand for?

Afr.-Am. member of the US House of Rep from SC from 1871-874. Ran for SC Att Gen in 1876.

Who wrote "Souls of Black Folk" in 1903?

Which African American invented the folding bed

Henry Aaron is best known for being what

Explain the Emancipation Proclamation?

areas of fertilization, cell division, and ultraviolet carcinogenic radiation effects on cells

What was Mamie Johnson's nickname?

Where did Barack Obama obtain his bachelor's degree in political science?

Born April 5, 1839, in Beaufort, SC, he personally recruited 5,000 soldiers for the Union Army?

What do most scholars consider Kemet to be?

What year was the March of Washington?

In the last line poem “I, Too,” Langston Hughes claims what about his American identity?

The SC Dept of Corrections reports that in 2017, there were 6,000 new admissions. Stats are

Gwendolyn Bennett’s long life began in 1902. What was the year of her passing?

What is the oldest and most noted statue in the world that bears the face of a black African?

What year did the Voting Rights Act become law

Born in Charleston, SC, educator and civil rights act. Worked with Thurgood Marshall for pay

Where was Kemet Located?

Langston Hughes’ poem asks the reader to reflect on different roles Afr. Am. held in history

Dr. Carter G. Woodson is known as holding what title?

Born in Maysville, SC, founded Daytona Normal and Ind. Inst., which is Bethune- Cookman College

What holiday did Professor Dr. Maulana Karenga create

Who is the founder of the United Negro College Fund?

What was Mamie "Peanut" Johnson's batting average between the years 1953 to 1955?

Sarah Boone is an African American who invented what device and in what year?

What is the difference between Equity and Equality

Served as Secretary of State and assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

1 of the most decorated regiments in WW I stationed at Camp Wadsworth located in Sptbg, SC

Which African American invented the fire extinguisher

Who is the richest human being of all history

African American born in Sptbg, SC, an educator, radio host, and former mayor of the Sptbg, SC

Space Jam (1996) starred which Olympic Gold Medalist in basketball?

Argued that African Americans could better themselves economically by accepting race separation

Actor “born and raised” in Philly starred in Ali, and The Pursuit of Happiness?

What were Jim Crow laws?