Black History Month Trivia Night 1

Oprah Winfrey inspired this writer-producer

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that overrulled segregation in the school system?

Writer, director, actor, and producer Ossie Davis was in the

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man which Southern City?

This man was the first African American to play baseball in the MLB. Who was he?

March 2, 1955, this 15 yr old girl refused to move to the back of the bus.

What was the most profitable crop on a southern plantation (after 1793)?

Alice Coachman-Davis was the first African American woman to

What were the laws called that upheld segregation in the South?

This iconic cartoon character was inspired by "Baby Ester" a regular in the 1920s Cotton Club.

In 1957 Martin Luther King Jr. founded which organization to work for full equality for blacks?

Thurgood Marshall argued which case