Black History Month 2023

Alongside Melvin Charles, who designed the Black Heritage Flag in 1967?

Who was the first Black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl?

What was the full name of the event where Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech?

Which form of literature did Frederick Douglass popularize?

This "human calculator," who worked for NASA, was asked to double check the computer calculations

What is the Black History Month theme for 2024?

What is the name of the 2016 film based on the true story of 3 Black female mathematicians who worked at NASA?

Who was the first Black musician to appear on a TV show?

Which state was the first to elect a Black governor, doing so in 1989?

Before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama serves as a US senator of which Midwestern State?

Which US President officially recognized Black History Month?

Who broke the color barrier in baseball?

Which Supreme Court decision gave interracial couples the right to marry?

In which year did Black History Month become an annual, month long celebration?

The Tuskegee Airmen are primarily known for what?

Shirley Chisholm of New York was the first Black woman to be elected to congress, in what year did this happen?

Who was the first Black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

This fictional TV show is credited with having the first Black woman as a commander & the first interracial kiss.

What is the name of the church that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr preached at?

This labor leader was the mastermind of the March on Washington.

This woman is widely considered the first Black millionaire, selling hair-care products and other cosmetics.

Who was the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor?

Which Ivy League College was the first to employ a Black president?

What Holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in America?

What is the name of the legislation that outlawed racial discrimination during voting?

Black soldiers make up which percentage of the Union army?

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

Which actress made history in 2015 by becoming the first Black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress?

Who is the first Black, openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States?

Members of what labor union helped to build the nation's Black middle class & civil rights movement?

Who was the first Black woman to win 5 Grammy Awards in one year?

What can you do to be a good ally?

Who was the first Black actor/actress to win an Academy Award? What year?

Which African-American was the first astronaut?

This pre-Civil Rights leader was among the first Black women to be invited to the White House in 1864.

Starting in the 1940's, which Billie Holiday song was prohibited from her sets due to it being deemed "controversial" ?

Fifteen jockeys rode in the very first Kentucky Derby. How many of the fifteen were Black?

Who was the only Black American to be present at the Seneca Falls Convention?

Which amendment abolished slavery "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" ?

The all-Black Regiment 369TH Infantry Division achieved what in WWI?