Black History Month Trivia Night

Who is an Olympic Gold Medalist holding a world record in the 4 x 100 free style relay (long course)?

True or False: Simone Biles was the first Black gymnast to become All-Around World Champion

Who wrote the autobiography "I know why the caged bird sings"?

True or False: Bessie Coleman was the first Black female aviator pilot in 1921

Which came first, the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment?

Who discovered uses for the peanut?

What boxer's original name is Cassius Clay

The unanimous Supreme Court decision, ruling public school segregation was unconstitutional

Who is the author of "Mama" and "Waiting to Exhale"?

What is Ruby Bridges famous for?

Who was the first African American woman NASA astronaut in space in 1992?

Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

What is an HBCU?

Who was an attorney at the NAACP w/ Thurgood and the first African American woman federal judge?

When did the first Black President take office?

True or False: Althea Gibson was the first African American woman to win the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

Before Barack Obama became president, he served as what?

When was the Civil Rights Act passed?

True or False: Barack Obama was the First Black President

With the 15th Amendment in 1870, African American's got what right?

Most gold medals won by a female gymnast was accomplished by who?

When did the celebration of Black History month begin?

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

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

Which author created the Black Panther comics?

What was the first state to abolish slavery?

What is Frederick Douglas famous for?

When was the first African American woman nominated to the House of Representatives?

Who was the founding president of The King Center, and one of the most celebrated champions of Civil Rights?

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Who escaped slavery in 1851 and gave a speech without using any notes called "Ain't I a Woman?"

Who was the first African American Nobel Prize winner?

The first Black person to be U.S. Secretary of State (to George W. Bush) and is also a 4-star general

Nicknamed "Lady Day" she was a Harlem jazz singer for 30+ years and sold-out Carnegie Hall

Who helped form the Civil Rights students into the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?

Where was Black Wall Street located?

True or False: Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to congress?

Who is the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?

First Black mayor of Atlanta, GA and of any major city in the south?

True or False: Rosa Park's bus boycott happened in September 1955

True or False: Gladys West mathematics helped develop stop lights

True or False: The NAACP's official journal is called "The Crisis"

Who was the first African American woman who was a millionaire? (because of hair care products)

Who was the first African-American Major League Baseball player?

Who was the first black woman to serve as a US senator?

Who wrote the play "A Raisin in the Sun" named after a line in a poem by Langston Hughes?

Who is the TV producer, screenwriter and author of Grey's Anatomy, Scandal & How to Get Away with Murder?

Jessie Owens won 4 Gold Medals in Track and Field events in the 1936 Olympics in Germany

What is 'the ____ book' written by a New York City mailman that helped Black Motorists in Jim Crow South?

Carter G. Woodson was a scholar on African-American history and is often regarded as the father of black history?