BHM Trivia '25

For which of the following products is inventor-businessman Garrett A. Morgan known?

Which two universities have an ongoing feud over which one was the first ever HBCU in the nation?

Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” was written/performed to honor which event?

Which civil rights leader said, “Truth does not change, only our awareness of it"?

What year did the Black Lives Matter movement officially begin?

Three Black women have earned EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, & Tony). Who has NOT reached EGOT status (yet)?

Who said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own”?

Kamala Harris was a member of which Black Greek organization in undergrad, and what were their official colors?

Only 4 Black women have won Album of the Year in the Grammy’s 66-year history. Who are they?

Which NBA player has won the most championships?

Who was the first Black woman to go to space?

Alexa Irene Canady was the first ______________ in 1981.  

Where was Black Wall Street, a thriving community for Black businesses in the 20th century, located?

Which of the following is Maya Angelou’s, civil rights activist and author, first body of work?

Who was the first Black Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Who was the first Black woman to serve in Congress?

Who was the first Black woman to headline Coachella?

Which type of clothing did NOT originate in the Black community?

When was the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) founded?

Which singer-songwriter’s album What’s Going On (1971) addressed themes of police brutality and environmentalism?

Chinua Achebe, an award-winning Nigerian writer, wrote one of the most-widely read books in history. What is the title?

Which civil rights leader said “Give light and people will find the way”?

Which rapper became the first and only musician, outside of classical and jazz genres, to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music

Who said, “For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate — our actions matter”?