Black History Month

Who was the first African American Inventor to receive a patent for their dry cleaning process?

What is the meaning of liberation?

What year was Malcolm-X assassinated?

What did Louis Armstrong do for a living?

Martin Luther King, Jr., later renamed Martian, was born in which Southern city?

Black History Month is in Feb. due to 2 birthdays of famous abolitionists.  Who are they?

An abolitionist is someone who...

Who was the first African American in space?

Wilma Rudolph did not learn to walk until she was 8 years old. At age 20, she was called:

Who was the first African American judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court?

Who was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad?

Who is named the "Queen of Soul"?

When was Black History Month celebrated for the first time?

Who is the only African American honored with a National holiday?

Who founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to educate black teachers?

Who helped make peanuts nationally recognized?

Fannie Lou Hamer is responsible for which of these famous quotes?

What year was it when Mae C. Jemison became the first African American woman in space?

Which was the first state to abolish slavery?

What is the name of the all African American WWII Airforce unit?

What was the informal system that helped slaves escape to the North during the mid-1800's?

What African American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat to a white man?

What was the total number of slaves that escaped to freedom using the Underground Railroad?

Who was the first black president?

Which boxer heavily supported the civil rights movement. His birth name was Cassius Clay.

How do you spell this person´s name?

In 1989, Douglas Wilder became the first black governor of which state?

Who is the father of Black History Month?

What court case overturned the separate but equal decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1954?

Who was the first male African American country music star?

Who was the first African American Miss America?

What year was slavery abolished?

Who wrote, "A letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

Who led the largest slave rebellion in history?

Who invented over 300 products from the peanut?

When was Black History Month established?

Who is the first person in history to win four gold medals in Track and Field?

Shirley Chisolm was the first black woman elected to

Who was the first African American Women to run for President?

Where did MLK Jr. receive his doctorate from?

What was Jackie Robinson’s baseball number?

Which president signed the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery?

What was the name of the first black Barbie?

What was Maya Angelou famous for?

What Constitutional Amendment gave all citizens the right to vote?

Which was the first to have a higher African American population than Caucasian?

Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I have a dream..." speech?

Who became the first black player in major league baseball in 1947?

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson played for which team?

Which African American athlete won 4 fold medals at teh Berlin Olympics in 1936?

When did the NAACP celebrate its 100th anniversary?

Who was the first African American star of a network TV show?

In what year did Harriet Tubman flee Maryland?

From 1973 - 1976, this famous singer won 3 out of 4 Grammy awards for best male pop vocalist:

First African American to earn a PH.D from Harvard University?

What year did the Voting Rights Act become law?

She was an African American jazz/pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

She was the first mega-star of her time. Paving the way for the Beyonce's of today.

In 1940, who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

What is Rosa Parks famous for?

Who was the first African American gold medal olympian? 

In what year did the first enslaved Africans arrive in North America?

Who is this woman and was her title?

In the year 1513, Who was the first documented African to arrive in America?

What did Marie Maynard Daly accomplish first as an African American woman?

What famous book stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the U.S. prior to the Civil War?

Who was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer?

Who is Madame CJ Walker

Which was the first historically black college/university (HBCU) that was established?

Besides the U.S., what other two major political powers celebrate Black History Month?

What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the underground railroad?

When was Black History Week first celebrated?