Gator University Black History Trivia

What African-American won an Academy Award for playing the role of Ray Charles in, "Ray"?

Who wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”?

What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?

Who was the first African American Major League baseball player?

What African-American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus?

Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?

What African-American led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships?

Who is  the first African American female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre?

Who is named the Queen of Soul?

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

Who became the first black woman millionaire and invented hair care products for black women?

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

In what city did the first AA owned newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, begin publishing in 1827?

Who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 to become the conductor of the Underground Railroad?

He is best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut.