Black History Review #1

This composer and bandleader led the first band to play jazz at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.

Who was the first Black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Who lost her teaching job due for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked “Whites Only”?

His findings include the prediction of a solar eclipse, publishing their almanac, and the surveying of Washington, DC.

What Supreme Court case ruled racial segregation legal and Constitutionally protected?

Quotes: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

In what year was the first National Black Political Convention held?

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Who was the first Black woman in America to earn one million dollars?

In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?

Who was the first Black US Senator?

Who was the first Black woman to serve as mayor of a major US city?

The commander of the World War II military group known as the Tuskegee Airmen

What amendment to the Constitution made the use of poll taxes in elections illegal?

He founded the Algebra Project, an education program which helped the next phase of the civil rights struggle

In what year was the Stono Rebellion held?

This Washington, D.C. school was one of the five schools represented in the Brown versus Board of Education.

Author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Who was the first Black American head coach to win the Super Bowl?

This five-time NBA MVP won 11 league championships and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

Who invented the modern-day home video system?

This race massacre occurred in 1919 lasted 13 days with 38 people dead and at least 1,000 Black families homeless.

What is the name of the oldest known holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States?

The activist and WWII Vet who was murdered in front of his home for registering Black people to vote in Mississippi.

A research chemist and pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

Who was the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice?

What current politician, lawyer, and author launched a voter protect initiative in 2020 called “Fair Fight”?

Who invented the laser cataract surgery?

On 12,/ 15/ 2021, the juvenile court records of her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up a seat were expunged following

“I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter... Our lives matter.”

An abolitionist and anti-slavery activist who served as a writer for Freedom’s Journal.

Her show, Insecure helped change the perception of the South Los Angeles highlighting Black businesses and landmarks.

Author of Between the World and Me

Who wrote Clotel, or The President’s Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1853?

Mount Zion Cemetery is recognized a National Historic Site and & served this city’s African American population

Quotes: “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I’d be crunched in to other people’s fantasy for me and eaten alive”

n what year was the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama bombed?

What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?

This athlete gained became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games.

What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping company