Black History Month Quiz

Who is the youngest A. American boxer to win a World heavyweight title?

Who is the first person in history to win four gold medals in track and field?

NBA Rookie of the Year, five-time regular-season MVP, 3 All-Star MVPs,& winner: 6 championships

Who was the first A. American woman to write/read her poem at President Clinton's inauguration?

TN. slave escaped to freedom& became an abolitionist, creating Kansas settlement for A. Ams.

This African general fought to make Haiti the world's first all-black free country.

What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?

First African-Am. Arctic explorer,credited as the first man to reach the North Pole, in 1909.

Who invented over 300 products from the peanut?

An African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion.

Set records in high school& at Ohio State& won 4 golds at the Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler

Invented a wooden clock in 1753 & helped survey the original boundaries of the DC in 1791.

9 mos before R Parks she famously refused to surrender her seat in the whites section of a bus.

Who became the first black player in Major League Baseball in 1947?

American rapper whose sold more than 75 million albums&died as a result of coastal rap dispute.

Who is the first A. American woman to own her very own television production company?

44th president of the United States, who was born to Kenyan father and English mother?

The first black-American Justice of the Peace & 1st to pass the Bar exam and practice law.

Who was the first African-American woman to become the First Lady of the United States?

Who is the founder of Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan?

What is the oldest civil rights organization in America?

Who is the first A. American to win the Masters golf tournament?

What holiday did Professor Dr. Maulana Karenga create?

This HOF bball center steered the Celtics to 11 titles over his 13year career. Retired in 1969.

Who is the only African-American honored by a national holiday?

This gangsta rap pioneer found success w-rap group NWA founded Beats Electronics made &millions

This versatile actor has played villains &heroes in all types of films &UN goodwill ambassador.