African American quiz bowl

Who became the first African American running back to rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season?

He became the first African American male to play in the National Football League in 1902.

What musical instrument does jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr. play?

What college was the first black greek lettered organization for men founded?

Maj. Gen. Granger overthrew the slave owners and pronounced slavery was over in 1863, what is this?

Her hair products led her to become the first African American female millionaire?

Who was the first African American female singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera in New York?

Name the famous demonstration that took place at our nation's capital in 1963?

Which president ended slavery?

Who was the first African American female awarded a medical degree?

He became the first African American head coach to win a Super bowl?

What state has the most black institutions of higher learning?

Who was the first African American to pitch for the Cleveland Indians at the age of 42?

Baltimore's newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded by what former slave?

In 1848, who was the first African American male to run for President of the United States?

What 14 year old boy was lynched and murdered after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's store?

Who invented the street sweeper truck?

What northern city in Pennsylvania was home to the first National Negro Convention?

Benjamin Bradley invented this part of a battle ship to help them run faster.

What is the longest syndicated television program from Oct. 1971 to March 2016 that highlights black entertainment?

Which Amendment ends slavery?

Ernest Green becomes the first person to graduate from what school?

This college is the sister school of Morehouse college and it resides in Greensboro, NC.

He is the first African American to qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500.

In 1877, this was the first attempt of freed black men to create a university west of the Mississippi in Arkansas?

In 1982, he became the first African American to win a national Rodeo competition for bull riding, who is he?

Who was the first black network television anchor?

What is the oldest black college for African American women in Greensboro, NC?

This person is the first black female engineer.

Frederick Douglas was a famous abolitionist who founded this anti-slavery newspaper, what was it called?

What famous woman was born a slave, became a teacher and later founded the National Council of Negro Women?

Who was the first African American to earn the Rhodes Scholarship in 1940?

Who is known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights" struggle in California?

This person is credited for writing the negro national anthem, who is he?

She became the first female mayor of Washington, D.C.

What female athlete track star has held records in the 100 and 200 meter dash since 1988?

Who was the first black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962?

These two individuals, with first raised on the medal podium of injustice for blacks in the US to symbolize black power?

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940's

What is the official year that Black History month began?

On January 1, 1863 President Lincoln declared all slaves shall forever be free. What is the name of this speech?

Whitney Young was an advocate for civil rights reform for black people; what was the organization he helped?

Who is the first African American player from Kentucky drafted in the WNBA?

Which month was chosen to celebrate Black History?

Which amendment allows African Americans the right to vote?

Which amendment says African Americans are citizens?

What year was the first black greek lettered organization founded for men?

This basketball player was famous for the skyhook and played with the Lakers for 20 seasons.

Who was the first black american female doctor in the U.S. Navy?

This athlete won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany?

This University was founded in 1867 for black men in Augusta, GA?

Who was the first African American to lead a successful expedition to the North Pole in 1909?

Name the federal holiday celebrated on the 3rd Monday in January every year?

This person still holds the record with the most NBA championships?

This person is known as the King of the blues who plays a guitar named "Lucille"?

Meharry Medical College is one of the nation's oldest HBCU for training black doctors, where is it located?

In 1924, she became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold in the Broad Jump.

In 1918, she created a heating furnace that could be used to heat an entire living space?

John Albert Burr created this device to help individuals farm better.

In what sport did Doug Williams become the first African American to win a championship?

Who invented the gas mask?

What was Sojourner Truth's name when she was a slave in New York?

What is the name given to the process of helping slaves escape the south?

Who is the first black female president of Spelman College?

Marquette Frye, a black motorist on parole for robbery was stopped for reckless driving. This stop sparked what riot?

How did Malcolm X die?

This person patented lubricant for steam engines.

In 1969, who founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first professional all black classical ballet company?

Booker T. Washington purchased 100 acres of land to create an HBCU in Alabama for freed slaves, what is the name?

Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?

Who was the second black actor to win an Academy Award for best actor?

In 1988, she became the first African American to win a medal in the winter Olympic games in Ice Skating?

Charles Drew developed this life saving device for patients.

Who is the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Who organized the Negro National League, the first black baseball league in 1920?

What black american invented the telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph?

This black male is the first to play in the Masters golf tournament?

Who founded the the publication, Black Enterprise in 1970?

In 1960, there were four college students who sat at a segregated lunch counter. What city and state did this occur?

In 1983, who became the first black mayor of Chicago, Illinois?

Arthur Ashe played what sport?

What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?

Who was the first black president of the school board in Atlanta, GA?

Name the first person to die in the American Revolution.

Name the chief justice that replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court?

On September 2, 1941, who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone?

Who was the first Black to graduate from a largely segregated school district in Little Rock, AR Central HS?

He was the first African American elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1890?

He is credited with being the first to hold a patent issued in 1821 for the dry cleaning process.

Referred to as the "God Father of soul", who also wrote, "I'm black and I'm proud?"

Who created the hand cranked pencil sharpener?

He is credited for developing the process for making a carbon filament burn for longer hours.

Who became the first African American woman to travel into space?

Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?

What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War as the process for seeking equal rights?

Name the Abolitionist who published the North Star newspaper?

To ensure food could be transported across long distances this African American invented a refrigerator truck?

Who founded the magazine, Ebony?

Who successfully separated a pair of twins born joined together by the head in 1984?

Who is the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion?