Black History Elimination Quiz Bowl

Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?

What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy master diver Carl M. Brashear?

Who was the first female Black American to enter the medical profession?

Who organized the first Black History week?

What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?

Which soldiers were the first all black members of the U.S. Army's 19th Cavalry?

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

For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947?

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces?

In 1975, who became the first African-American to operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit.

Which group of black and white volunteers traveled on bus trips in the South to test desegregation?

The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson, stands for what?

Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?

In 1972, Gordon Parks received what prestigious award presented by the NAACP?

Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?

In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?

In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a white only lunch counter to protest discrimination?

In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?

Which fourteen year old black boy was murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi?

What does Juneteenth signify?