Academic Bowl

First African American admitted to the Florida Bar Exam since Reconstruction

Who was the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

CEO of Bridgewater Interiors

From IHOP, to the Art Institute of Houston, to "Top Chef"

CEO of Darden Restaurants, Inc.

First African American nurse

Formerly known as Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church.

First AA president of US

First AA to have a daily television show on public television.

Who was released from Robben Island Prison after 27 years?

Who is the Attorney General of the US?

CEOs of MV Transportation, Inc.

This institution was a co-ed high school before it became a university

Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy and practice was drafted into a manifesto...

CEO of Loop Capital

What movie is about the first AA competitive swimming team in Philadelphia?

First African American to serve in the US House of Representatives

The study of the animal kingdom and animal life

12 yr old chef that promotes the importance of food and health to children.

CEO of The RLJ Companies

Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools across the USA

As part of this movement, 9 African-American students were denied entry into Central High 

CEO of TIAA-CREF

Civil Rights leader that advocated self-defense and Black Nationalism:"by any means necessary."

DNA is made up of...

Who is the founder of the Black Business League and Tuskegee Institute (now university)?

Owns a stake in the Los Angeles Dodges; retired NBA player

What Dallas journalist was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalist?

Which HBCU is the country's oldest west of the Mississippi River?

Located in New Orleans, this institution was partly destroyed during Hurricane Katrina

Cited as the "Father of Black History"

Who starred in the role of Brutus in Shakespeare's play on Broadway?

Chef that defies "black people only eat soul food" stereotype with his Afro-vegan cookbooks

Forged a new understanding of blood plasma that allowed blood to be stored for transfusions.

AA chef with the motto "whatever you do, do it with style"

AA chef known from his long dreads and devotion to sustainable, local ingredients in cooking.

CEO of CAMAC

First AA to be promoted to principal dance in American Ballet Theater's history

First AA that was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination

Organization under JFK that issued a desegregation order eliminating signs labeled "colored"

First AA woman to earn a medical degree

Event undertaken due to voter registration program...met with violence by police

Who is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey

Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard

Known as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"

CEO of Rapier Solutions

Who is featured on a U.S. coin?

Who was the first black president of South Africa?

Jewish-American historian, lawyer, and activist and co-founder of NAACP

First AA to graduate from West Point

University known for training African American school teachers 

The science of drugs

First African-American to serve on the US Supreme Court

What Pittsburgh playwright wrote a play about each decade of the 20th century?

What HBCU is the setting for the movie "The Great Debaters," starring Denzel Washington?

American political scientist that was the first AA to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950

CEO of TAG Holdings, LLC

In what year was the State Fair of Texas desegregated?

Who was the first African American to serve as mayor of the City of Dallas?

4th largest HBCU in the nation, located in Mississippi

First African American woman to become a pilot

Kiswahili is the primary language of what African country?

Social reformer known for his oratory and incisive antislavery writing; consultant to Lincoln

This institution was partly destroyed during a 1974 tornado

AA chef that served a 10-yr prison sentence and turned his life around 

Federal law that eliminated the remaining barriers to voting for African-Americans.

The year of when sit-ins began in the Civil Rights Movement at Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, KS

Movement created after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus

CEO of the Xerox Corporation

CEO of McDonald's

Credited with the first successful open heart surgery

First African-American woman appointed Surgeon General of the US

Civil Rights leader, minister, and author of the "I Have A Dream" Speech

Which Dallas, TX high school was established as the first for AA pupils?

Ship notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported to Cuba

Was one of the first AA men to serve in the Texas Senate

Speech that attempted to bridge the gap between civil rights and economic justice

CEO of JMA Solutions

CEO of World Wide Technology, Inc.

CEO of ACT-1 Group

Date of MLK's assassination.

First African American woman to earn a PhD from MIT

The "father of chemistry."

What city in Texas operated the first elementary and high school for AA?

Who is the first environmentalist to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Revolutionized Neurosurgery

Described as "a Princeton PhD and a child of the streets.."; author of 18 books dealing with AA

Author of "The Equation: Applying the 4 indisputable Components of Business Success

Author of 3 New York Times bestsellers; interest in writing about mental health

Creative application of "scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, etc."

Who won the Tony Award for Topdog/Underdog starring Jeffery Wright and Mos Def?

First African American woman to serve in the US House of Representatives

First AA woman to travel to space 

CEO of American Express

Created after the University of Texas Law School denied entry to Herman Marion Sweatt

Event when 4 African-American students planned a sit-in in Woolworths store in North Carolina

Captured by Mexican troops, the song Yellow Rose of Texas was written in her honor

The study of medicine and natural history

First African American woman to serve as President of the New York Cancer Society

Television's greatest female personality

CEO of Bridgeman Foods, Inc.

National Correspondent for The Atlantic; nominated for 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction

What country in the New World has the largest population of people of African descent?

What year did Huston-Tillotson College change to Huston-Tillotson University?

Legendary cowboy that was a rodeo star and came up with "bulldogging."

Chef that kicked off FLOTUS initiative; travels country talking about healthy inexpensive food

AA author that featured African-American characters in her romance novels.

Federal law that prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing

Who is the only AA quarterback to win a Super Bowl

Where will the 2016 Summer Olympics be held?

What public high school was the first to serve AA in Ft. Worth, Texas?

First AA to become a US Air Force general and commander of the WWII Tuskegee Airmen

First field secretary for NAACP and civil rights leader; murdered  on June 12, 1963

African American abolitionist, humanitarian and spy for the Union Army

Otherwise known as the Black Panther party...advocated political education.

Location of MLK's death

First AA to earn a medical degree

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita affected people living in what area of the U.S.?

The study of matter and its properties

Federal law that eliminated legalized racial segregation in the US.

MLK Jr. was elected President of this organization that promoted civil rights.

Involved traveling around the South to challenge segregation laws of interstate travel

CEO of Merck & Co., Inc.

Thousands of people converged at National Mall in Washington D.C to call for jobs and freedom.

First AA District Attorney for Dallas County

Who is the scientist that created over 300 by-products from the peanut?

CEO of ZeroChaos

This piece of technology of served as the catalyst for change in the civil rights movement.

Founder of the LAUPR, he is author of 9 books about African American experience.

What artist founded the art department at Texas Southern University in Houston?