Black History Bowl, part 2

In what year was the AA celebration call Kwanzaa created?

Name the first AA to win the Nobel Peace prize.

Name the six year old female who in 1960 became the first AA child to attend an all white school in New Orleans.

Name the first AA astronaut.

Who was the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize in literature?

Name the AA surgeon and medical researcher famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation.

Who was the founder of the first society specifically devoted to the professional study of Black History (1915)?

Who was the first AA to win an Oscar Award in film?

Thomas Edison’s elite scientist team included on AA engineer and scientist. Who was he?

Name the female activist who, in 1887 (71 years before Rosa), refused to give up her seat in the women’s car on a train.

Who was the first AA General?

Name the 6 ft, short tempered pistol and shotgun carrying former slave who became the first AA female US mail carrier.

Who was the author of the book pictured below.

Name the document that allowed blacks to enlist and fight in the Civil War.

Pictured below are AA relocating the bodies of Union Soldiers buried in mass graves in Confederate camps. What present

Name the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States (1864).

Name the sculptor of the following.

Name the first woman and AA to graduate with a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii.

Name the actor who played the role of Madea.

What is the official name of the museum pictured here?

Name the escape slave who spoke and wrote against slavery for the Anti-Slavery Society.

Name the first AA to hold a patent.

Name the first AA woman elected to US Congress.

Who was the first AA woman to graduate from law school in the US?

What sport is Althea Gibson known for?

Name the entertainer who is famous for wearing one sequined glove and housing a wild life refuge in his backyard.

The Executive Order called the Emancipation Proclamation was issued 157 years ago on January 1st of what year?

Name the first AA female judge in the US.

Name the first Black College in Texas established in 1872.

Name the slave who was actually a Union Spy who infiltrated the Confederate presidents household.

What was the first nationwide labor union led by an AA (1925)?

At 14, this enslaved female published her first story. Who was she?

Name the famous educator and scientist who was known as the young “plant doctor”.