Black History Month Quiz

Who was the first black model to be on the cover of American Vogue?

In 1987, who became the first player to play in both MLB and the NFL since the 1960's?

Ronald McNair, Charles Bowden, and Frederick Gregory pursued what profession?

How many African-Americans have served in the US Senate since it first convened in 1789?

Who helped hundreds of slaves in the south escape to freedom?

Who was the first black millionaire?

Who holds the record for most points scored in a single basketball game (100)?

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Who is the first black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre?

What movie tells the story of three black women who helped astronaut John Glen into orbit?

What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

Who was the first African-American head coach in the NFL?

Who was the first black Miss America?

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Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?

Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the PGA circuit?

Who triggered a boycott by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?

Who was the first black president?

What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?

Who was the first black baseball player in Major League Baseball?

Who is the first black women to be ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association?

Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what organization's blood bank?

Who was the first African American to travel in space?

Who was the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Olympics?

What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?

Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts?

Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that upheld "separate but equal?"

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun?

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

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?

Who was the first African American justice on the Supreme Court of the United States?

Who gave the " I have a dream speech"?

What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

Who started the "Back to Africa Movement"?

Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?

Who was credited with setting up the first blood bank in England and the United States?

Who developed mathematical formulas to calculate weather and astronomical events?

Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp

Who was the first Black American to graduate from medical school in 1847?

What famous athlete is known for this saying, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."