BKB 2025 April 2024

What is the name of the Book that won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953?

In what year did Dr. King deliver his sermon in Ghana?

Who became the first African American woman mayor in the United States?

What is the name of Tina Pullums first book?

What was the name of May Angelou's seventh and final book called?

In what year was Tina Pullum's first book published?

In what year did historian, writer, and activist Arturo Schomburg immigrate to New York City from Puerto Rico?

In what year was a historical marker at the site where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers erected?

Whose record did Hank Aaron break in 1974?

In what year did Pfc. Milton L. Olive, III become the 1st AA to earn a Medal of Honor from Vietnam?

When was Mayor Harold Washington's first day in office as the mayor of Chicago?

In what year did Civil rights activist, and leader Fannie Lou Hamer co-found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party?

Who was named a distinguished fellow by the American Economic Association?

Lelia Foley was the first African American mayor in what city and state?

What court did Freedom fighters Dred Scott and his wife petition for their freedom?

When was Black Panther activist, and journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal born in Philadelphia, PA?

When was Dennis W. Coleman, Sr., one of NASA's first African American consultants for the European Space Agency born?

Who was the Hall of Famer and one of the 50 Greatest Players in basketball history born in Chicago, Illinois?

Who became the youngest Hollywood executive director when her film Little debuted in 2019?

In what year did Sidney Poitier become the first African American to win the Academy Award?

In what year was Isiah Thomas, III born in Chicago, Illionois?

In what year was Invisible Man first published?

What is the name of the 1st protest against the enslavement of Africans made by a religious body?

In what year was Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander named a distinguished fellow by the American Economic Association?

What was the name of the sermon Dr. King delivered in Ghana?

In what year did the Harlem Hellfighters enter the combat trenches of France in WWI?

What battalion known as the Black Panthers was activated in WWII 1942?

Who lead a student strike for equal education in Virginia schools?

What was the 369th Infantry better known as?

Who was one of NASA's first African American consultants for the European Space Agency?

Who co-founded

What team did Chuck Cooper sign his NBA contract in 1950?

Who was Chicago's 1st African American mayor?

In what year did Barbara Rose Johns lead a student strike for equal education in Virginia schools?

In what year did Lelia Foley become the 1st African American mayor?

Who was the first African American NBA player?

When did Radio Golf, the final play in August Wilson's 10part series, premier?

In what year did Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George, engage in an epic fencing match with a French spy?

When was Mom & Me & Mom, the 7th and final book in Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies published?

In what year did Freedom fighters Dred Scott and his wife petition the St Louis court for their freedom?

Charles Dutton and Theresa Merritt stared in the world premier of what play?

What pioneering chemist received more than 130 chemical patents?

Kareem Abdul-Jabar scored the 31, 420th point of his career, breaking the NBA's all-time scoring record in what year?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot on the balcony of what Hotel?

In what year did the Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery begin?

When did pioneering chemist Percy Julian pass away?

In what year did Jackie Robinson sign his first National League contract?