Black History Trivia

What African American boxers original name is Cassius Gray?

What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini series in 1977 and 1979?

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

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

Where was Malcolm X killed?

Who was the first famous black singer?

Besides helping to free slaves, what else did Harriet Tubman accomplish?

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

Who was the first African American president of the American psychological association?

Who was the first African American US Senator?

Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American to become what?

Who was the first African American major league baseball player?

Who organized the Million Man March on October 16, 1995?

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

Who published the first Black American Women's newspaper in the US?

Who founded PUSH?

Who wrote, "Clotel, or the President's Daughter" the first published novel by a black american?

What year did segregation end in Virginia?

Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?

Who was one of the first African Americans to attend an all white school?

What primarily black female college was founded by two white women in Atlanta, Georgia?

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Whose screenplay, Georgia,Georgia was the first original script by a black woman to be produced?

Whose autobiography is entitled, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

In 1993, this woman became the first African American to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for 6 novels

After 40 years, who became the 2nd black actor to win an Academy Award for best actor?

This African American volleyball player helped the US team win the 1st medal at the 1984 Olympics...

Who wrote "Racism 101"?

Who wrote "Their Eyes are Watching God"?

Which fourteen year old African American boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?

Who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the Surgeon General of the US?

What former slave published the newspaper, "The North Star"?

Who was the first African American representative to be seated in the US House?

Who was the 44th President of the US?

Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany?

What is the estimated number of slaves that Harriet Tubman helped save?

What was the first African American owned and operated newspaper?

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?

Who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Who was the first African American actress to win the Triple Crown of Acting?

Who was the first known black hairstylist?

Who became the first African American female billionaire?

In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?

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

What year did Rosa Parks get arrested for not giving up her bus seat?

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?

Which Black Panther Party member also worked as a professor at UCLA?

Whose quote is this? "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom"