BSMBC -BHM Quiz Bowl

Who started Negro History Week, which became Black History Month in 1976?

Who became a civil rights advocate early in his career as a Baptist minister and won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Who was the first person of color in the world to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Who was a founder of the first major interracial church with a relative at Barraque Street Missionary Baptist Church?

Who wrote the lyrics to what is known as the Negro National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”?

Who became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title on the world tennis tour, at the French Open in 1956? 

Who is most famous for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Who was the first woman to become vice president of the United States?

Which amendment of the United States Constitution gives all citizens the right to vote

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

She had polio, won three gold medals in track & field in a single game and was fastest woman in the world in 1960's.

Who was the first African American poet to win a Pulitzer Prize?

In what year did Barack Obama become the first African American  President?

Who holds the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?

Who was the Underground most famous conductor who led over 300 slaves to freedom?

Who was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

The famous landmark 1954 Supreme Court Case ruled racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional?

Who was one of the pioneers in the chemurgy movement (prepares industrial products from agricultural raw materials)?

Who broke three track and field world records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?

Who was an inventor, mathematician and lay astronomer chosen to help lay out the new capital in Washington D. C.?

Who discovered how to bank blood?

Who was the founding father of Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Tuskegee, Alabama?

Who was the first African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Who was the first African American woman to open a chartered bank in the United States?

Who pioneered a technology called telegraphony (combined features of the telephone and telegraph)

Who was a chemist and entrepreneur that developed a chemical to straighten African American hair?

Who became the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968?

Who was instrumental in the battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957?

Who was the world’s first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license?

Which amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery in 1865?