Black Heritage Trivia Game

Which Black actor portrayed "Ike Turner " in the film What's Love Got Do With It?

Which three colors compromise the Black Liberation Flag?

Which group of workers approached A. Phillip Randolph to help them organize a union?

Who was the first African American to pilot NASA's space shuttle?

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

How many products did George Washington Carver create from sweet potatoes?

What sport did Berry Gordy participate in before founding Motown Records?

Among the 380 battalion commanders in Vietnam in 1967, how many were African American?

What did Angela Dais earn her graduate degree in at the University of California?

Who was New England's 1st Black woman mayor?

Name the actor/football star/Valedictorian of Rutgers with a law degree at Columbia University?

Which Black author's most famous book shares a title with an H.G. Wells novel?

Where did Black inventor Elijah McCoy study mechanical engineering?

Actor Sidney Poitier grew up on Cat Island/Bahamas. How did he lose his West Indian accent?

Who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

What do the colors of the Black liberation glad represent?

How many Blacks Americans joined the Back to Africa Movement?

Berry Gordy had a brother-in-law who became one of Motown's most famous stars. Who was he?

Which Black baseball player often had to dress, sleep, and dine apart from his teammates?

Martin Luther King said, "If Blacks could vote there would be no Jim Clarks." Who was Jim C.?

When did Blacks earn the right to serve on juries?

What was Malcolm X's given name?

The law that banned the literacy tests, understanding clauses to keep Blacks from exercising…

What famous scientist was honored with a postage stamp in 1949?

What is Colin Powell's middle name?

Nme the African American counterpart to the American Medical Association?

What Black inventor joined Thomas Edison's research team after inventing light bulb filaments?

What does the name "ragtime" come from?

Where was John H. Johnson, founder of the world's largest Black-owned publishing company, born?

For how much money did Black inventor Garrett A.Morgan sell the patent for the traffic light?

Which Black astronaut lost his life in 1986 when the shuttle Challenge exploded?

John Henry died while working on the construction of the Big Bend Tunnel in what state?

When did Congress pass the Civilian Pilot Training Act?

What was the purpose of the National Urban League?

Who resigned from his ministry in 1959 to become a full-time activist for the S.C.L.C?

What was the first military ship named after an African American called?

How many people participated in the 1963 March on Washington?

Dynamite Hill was the name for the frequent bombing of black houses by white racists…Where?

Who was the first Black astronaut accepted by NASA in 1967?

What was the result of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Virginia?

What was the Buffalo Soldiers' motto?

Where did the underground Railroad lead?

Which Black politician was responsible for opening the House press gallery to Blacks?

Who started the "Back to Africa" movement?

The number of blacks registered to vote in Selma, Alabama, went from 10% to more than:

Who sang "Ol' Man River" in the 1936 Hollywood musical Showboat?

During WWI, how many Blacks served in the American armed forces?

Name the form of music blending west African/European musical forms, popular i the 1890s.

What court case upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" in public facilities?

What inspired Garrett Morgan to invent the traffic light?

Which company was the largest private employer of Black workers in America in the 1920s?

"I can't rest while there's a single Negro boy or girl lacking a chance to prove their worth."

Which Black officer did President George Bush appoint to the nation's highest military job?

Why did Madame C.J. Walker go into the hair products business?

Who made lynching a federal crime?

Who was called in to stop the "Little Rock Nine?"

Who won a landslide victory to become the first African American mayor of St. Louis, Missouri?

How long did Elijah McCoy spend developing his automatic lubricating device?

Who was America's first African American scientist?

Which Republican President nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court?

When did Garrett Morgan invent the traffic light?

Who invented the berthing hood that became the modern day gas mask?

Who called himself "the first bad nigger in Congress?"

Black and White volunteers protested segregated interstate buses by riding together called...

What book inspired comedian Richard Pryor to focus on his own goals?

The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Assoc. and 1st mass Back-to-Africa Movement...

"How to Grow The Peanut & 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption" was Bulletin # what?

Who was an outspoken leader of the religious group called the Nation of Islam in the 1960s?

Who pressured the government to end discrimination against African Ameircans in war industries?

The first task of what organization devoted itself to the passage of anti-lynching laws?

When did Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt ban discrimination against Blacks in war industries?

Who was the first Black police lieutenant of Los Angeles?

How old was MLK, Jr. when he was recruited by Alabama activists to lead a boycott?

Which Black politician made a serious bid for the Democratic Presidential Nominee in 1988?

Who was the first Black self-made female millionaire in the US?

Name the Black attendant who shot down many Japanese planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

What purpose did G.W.C use a heavy teacup, a horseshoe, and a kerosene lamp?

Who was the first African American honoree in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame?

Where is the Black American West Museum?

Who invented the traffic light?

Between 1926 and 1935, Stepin Fetchit appeared in how many films?

What form of music was fundamental in shaping the solo and ensemble improv of early jazz?

Approx. how many Whites were killed during the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in VA in 1831?

What was the first year after 1881 that no lynchings were recorded?

Who said, "My life belongs to the struggle."

Where was Colin Powell born?

Who was the 1st Black man to serve a full term in the US Senate?

Who was the greatest ragtime musician?

What college did Dr. Charles R. Drew attend?

Who offered George Washington Carver a job as head of the Tuskegee Institute's Dept. of Ag?

When did Martin Luther King deliver his famous "I have a Dream" speech?

What was Scott Joplin's most famous ragtime composition?

Where were most of the African slaves captured?

What group's purpose was to give African Americans a powerful voice in U.S. policy?

When did the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters become an American Federation Labor Affiliate?

What father's on duo organized a church relief effort that fed and clothed 1000 people a day?

What were work songs?

Who was the first Black to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

How old was Black entertainer Dorothy Dandridge when she died?

Who was one of America's 1st photographers?

Why did Black Soldiers face a greater risk in the Civil War than White soldiers?

How did Adam Powell Jr., persuade the all-White bus system to hire 210 Black drivers/mechanics?

By the end of the Civil War, what percentage of soldiers in the Union Army were Black men?

Name a railroad worker whose strength inspired a famous song about workers against machines.

How long did the rioting last in the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965?

Name the society founded in 1817 dedicated to sending all slaves back to Africa?

During the 1968 Summer Olympics, who are the 2 Black athletes suspended from the U.S. team?

Which Black politician was elected mayor of Detroit 5 times?

Dearfield was the first all Black community in what state?

"I made films when the only other black on the lot was the shoeshine boy?" Who said this?

What was the Black actor Stepin Fetchit's real name?

When were the 1st slaves sold in America?

When did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

Why did TransAfrica leader Randall Robinson stage a sit-in at the S. African embassy in D.C.?

When was the slave trade officially prohibited by Congress?

Which member of the Jackson family starred in the John Singleton's 1993 film Poetic Justice?

Which U.S. President established the Fair Employment Comm. to investigate discrimination?

How did Dred Scott finally win his freedom?

DP MH Reeves brought in outlaws by disguising himself, How many fugitives managed to elude him?

Name the town Col. Allen Allensworth built in central California.

Name the record corporation that was founded in a low-rent Detroit building in 1949.

In the 1968 Presidential election, how many votes did white supremacist George Wallace receive?

Who was the 1st Black woman poet to be published in America?

Name the school that 9 teens were the 1st Black students to attend in Little Rock, Arkansas.

About how many slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad?

Who was the first Black graduate of Iowa State College?

How long did some Texas plantation owners take to inform their slaves of the Emancipation Pro?

What female activist risked her life to investigate the lynching of Black men?

Who taught new practical farming techniques at the Tuskegee Agricultural Experiment Station?

Who nonviolent beliefs inspired Martin Luther King, Jr?

Henry Lewis became the 1st Black to lead an American symphony orchestra after appointed to….

What was Dr. MLK's dream as describes by his speech at the March on Washington in 1963?

Who convinced Berry Gordy to start making and distributing his own records?

When did the 1st Black man come to America?

By 1860 there were approx. 4 million slaves living in the U.S. How many were free Black people?

What did C.J Walker add to her name to give it a Parisian flair?

George Washington Carver, America's best-known scientist, originally wanted to be what?

During what war did Dr. Charles R. Drew create practical procedures for the blood bank?

The 1st Black owned radio station broadcasted out of what city?

How did millionaire Madame C.J Walker earn her money before inventing her hair conditioner?

Which Black Inventor was instrumental in the creation of trolleys?