Black History Month Quiz Bowl

What is Malcom X's birth name.

Mike Tyson was the youngest African American boxer to win the World Heavyweight Title.

Who was the 1st African American male Tennis Player to win singles title at Wimbledon?

Who was the first American American to win the Nobel prize for Literature.?

Was Alex Haley the First African American author who wrote 'Roots" and "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"?

Hattie McDaniel the second African American women to win an Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actress"?

First athlete since 1936 to win 4 gold medals in one Olympic game.

The act of uniting or bringing people together, especially people of different races?

Althea Gibson was the first African American female to brake the color barrier of the game of tennis.

Freed the Slaves?

Who was the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court ?

What year did the first African Americans arrive at Jamestown. They were considered Indentured Servants

First African American to win Miss America--1983?

Condoleezza Rice was the first African American female to serve as a Secretary of State.

Who was the first African American female doctor in the city of New York, and third in the Nation?

Sojourner Truth was the first African American women with a Bust (statue) in U.S. Capitol ?

The first African American to set foot on the North Pole in 1909?

Who was the First African American Billionaire & Founder of B.E.T. ?

Who was the 1st African American Female in Space?

Who was the first African American business woman, hair care entrepreneur and philanthropist?

Is a person that opposes the practice of slavery an Abolitionist?

Who was the First Black President of Tuskegee Institute?

Who was the first African American abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Who was the Spiritual Mentor to Malcom X, and founder of the Nation of Islam?

What is the Atlanta, Georgia HBCU for females?

Who was the African American Novelist and Playwright who worked during the Harlem Renaissance

Who was the the 44 th President of the United States?

Was Lorraine Hansberry the first African American Playwright that wrote "A Raisin in the Sun".

What was the large political rally in support of Civil and Economic Rights for African Americans (1963)

W.E.B. DuBois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Who counseled First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and advised President Eisenhower to desegregate schools?

Who developed over 300 products from the peanut?

Who sang "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" in Martin Luther King Jr. 's funeral procession?

Who was the creator of Ebony and Jet Magazine

Believe that one race is superior to another

Who was the First African American Male to play Major League Baseball?

The Freedom Riders were Civil Rights Activists that rode on interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States.

Who was the first African American female Senator.

Who was the only African American NBA Player to score 100 points in a single game?

Was the Rosewood Massacre a violent, racially motivated conflict that caused Rosewood, Florida to disappear off the map?

Madam C.J. Walker was an Anti-lynching crusader and published "The Red Record" a pamphlet against lynching.

Who was the first Black doctor ever to operate on a human heart?

Underground Railroad

What theory states that if a person has as little as one drop of black blood in their heritage they are black?

Who was the an African American T.V. Hostess, and Greatest African American Philanthropist in American History?

What is the name of the state/local laws in America between 1876 and 1964 that segregated public places?

What is the annual award given by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an African American?