Altamont Black History Bowl 2023

What New York City neighborhood saw a flowering of Black Artists in the 20th century?

Who was the first black female awarded a medical degree?

The name of Marcus Garvey's shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks

What is Little Richard known for? (There are two right answers)

Who scored 47 points in the final game of the NCAA chamionship and lead Texas Tech to the national championship?

What is Vanessa Williams known for?

Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what nondenominational religious association and mutual aid society?

What is Gabby Douglas known for? (There are two answers)

"Go Down, Moses" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" are known as what type of songs?

What did J.L Love invent?

What percent of the black labor force was employed in the industry of agrulture

Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first Broadway theater to bear the name of an African American in 2005?

Stephen Bishop, the first African American cave explorer made a published map of what cave?

Who was the 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard?

What was the name of the first Gloria Naylor novel that was turned into a movie?

What singer performed in front of a televised audience in Boston the day after Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated?

What is Granville T. Woods known for?

Who helped form the "American Moral Reform Society," which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves?

Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine?

Ollen Hinnant was the first African American inducted into what law school's Hall of Fame in 1997?

On April 15th 1947, he became the first African American to play major league baseball.

More than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were known collectively as...

What laws were denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War?

Who invented the ironing board?

Who is the controversial director, screenwriter and actor that pushes racial boundaries?

A 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights

What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas?

Most famously known for his role as the Black Panther, he also starred as famous icons in biographical films

Who was a prominent organizer in the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement?

What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard before starting his solo career?

A World War II-era effort of black Americans to gain "a Victory over racism at home as well as Victory abroad."

Who helped establish an orphanage and the first YMCA for African Americans in Philadelphia?

What is Major Frederick D. Gregory known for?

Who was the first Black American female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court?

What track and field athlete won nine gold medals during their career?

What is William Carney known for?

What is Margaret Murray Washington known for? (There are two right answers)

Which three heavily populated Black isolated areas did the musical genre "The Blues" emerge from?

A Black pilot who sailed a Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina and delivered it to the Union Navy

This heavyweight fighter threw his Olympic medal into the river in protest for being denied service

Who was the first accredited Black American physician in the United States?

What black female inventor patented a home security system?

Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine?

Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject?

Movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to Urban Northeast, Midwest, and West

The first African American to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000

Who wrote the books Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, and Black Betty?

Who created ice cream?

What is Jesse Stahl known for?

What is Toni Morrison most known for? (There are two answers)

Classic blues singer, lberta Hunter was a womaan who came out of what performance tradition?

What is the name of Oprah Winfrey's TV production company?

This self-taught engineer is the creator of the video game cartridge.

Which artist first attracted attention for his graffiti in New York City in the late 1970s, under the name SAMO?

What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber and etc?

What was the name of a protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama?

The Crucifixion is a tribute for what?

What is Willie Mays known for?

What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?

What is Booker T. Washington known for?

In what year was the first all-Black medical school Meharry Medical College established?

The first African-American artist to make a blues record and sell a million copies in less than a year?

Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington's leadership and organized the Niagara Movement in Canada

What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors

What state was the first to abolish slavery?

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal

In 1988, what basketball player became the first NBA player to reach 37,000 career points?

Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for their writing?

This actress was the first African-American woman to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and an Oscar

In what 1984 movie did artist Prince have a starring role?

George Washington commended what Black American woman for her literary achievements?

Founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind."

What are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale known for?

What film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

A group of black and white volunteers who traveled in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants.

What did Ozzie Williams develop?

What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965?

What team played against Biddle College in the first Black American college football game?

Who was A. Phillip Randolph?

What is Otis Boykon known for?

Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her work in entertaining the Work War II allies?

Who was the first Black American woman doctor?

Who created the potato chip?

A young woman who at the age of 15, in March 1955, refused to give up her seat on a Montegomery bus (before Rosa Parks)

Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?

African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote

What is Shirley Chisholm known for?

What did Harry Hopkins invent?

What was the name of Wilma Rudolph's relay team, which finished first at the 1960 Olympics?

The first African American recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950

What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund?

Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball league?

Jackie Robinson played for what Negro League team?

For what type of music was Bob Marley famous?

What is Phil Brooks known for?

Bill Russell was the first Black American player in what professional sports league?

Who was the first black woman to serve as guest host of The Tonight Show?

In what state did Nat Turner organize a four-day rebellion of enslaved and free Black people?

Who became the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor?

Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia?