Total Life Black History Trivia

  Who created “Negro History Week” and when did it become “Black History Month”? 

Which person attended Hampton University, founded the Tuskegee Institute and gave the 'Atlanta Compromise' speech?

Which one of these inventors help with the creation of home security systems

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter

Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?

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

What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”

The Freedom Journal was first African American newspaper what year was its first publication?

Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

She earned a patent for her invention, the first synthetic hairbrush in 1898 made it easier to clean out the hairbrush

In what year was the Congressional Black Caucus organized?

What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?

She was a mathematician and physicist who performed her duties with the NASA space agency

This person breakthrough work on the storage of plasma helped save lives?

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

Known as "Black Edison," this inventor made key contributions to the development of the telephone, streetcar and more?

Garrett Morgan invented the three light traffic light in what year?