Black History Month Quiz Bowl

What did the 15th amendment do for Africans in America?

Lana Michele Moorer aka MC Lyte burst on to the Hip Hop Scene with "I Cram to Understand You" in what year?

She ran for President in 1972 and was the first black female representative in Congress. Who is she?

Marcus Garvey founded the United Negro Improvement Association and the Black Star Line shipping company in what year?

Straight outta Mali, this King is the wealthiest person to ever live. He is ...

Who is the French born Haitian writer of the classic book,The Count of Monte Cristo? He also wrote the Three Musketeers.

The youth led rebel music of Hip hop started in which of these NYC boroughs?

Considered by many as the father of Gospel Music, he wrote over 3,000 songs. He is...

According to Bob Marley the Buffalo soldier came from...

What song is this by the iconic R&B group Earth Wind and Fire?

This Historian started Negro History Week and wrote a scathing critique of the American Education system entitled ____.

Who was the First black Billionaire?

Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, & Opal Tometi est. this org. to address the police shootings of unarmed black people.

This Georgia born man told black folks they were Asiatic. He referred to the first Adam and the original Eve as African

This African Leader defeated Italy 125 years ago, at the Battle of Adwa. This kept Ethiopia from being conquered.

He led the largest mass slave escape in history and founded free Black settlements in OK & Mexico

The term Black Power was coined by

How many current black US senators are there in Congress?

Which one of these black LGBT icons was one of the most central figures in the Stonewall Riots of 1969?

The dope remix for the song Feeling Good; features the vocal of the incomparable Jazz vocalist known as...

Born 1856 during slavery and forced to drop out of school at age ten, this inventor still created over 1000 inventions

In 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith was one of two track stars who protested by raising their fists in which host city?

Lauryn Hill was the first black woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year. What was her first released song?( Fugees)

Muhammad Ali refused to enlist in the U.S. Army and was stripped of his boxing title in what year?

This black scientist greatly contributed to creating a vaccine for Covid-19.

During increased racial tensions, what year did James Brown released "I'm Black and I'm Proud" ?

Paul Roberson was an actor, athlete, and activist. He traveled the world and spoke out against Jim Crow. He also lived..

Chuck Berry had a unique performance style. What is the name for his "Signature move" called?

During Kwanzaa, we use this to symbolize the foundation of our African tradition and history.

On May 17, 1954, what was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

This country had leaders named Menelik and Haile Selassie. It's the only African nation never to be colonized.

Who was the First African American to travel into outer space?

This famous leader said , "Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

Before becoming the 44th U.S. President Barak Obama was a U.S. Senator for how many years?

What event in the 1920s ushered in a intellectual and cultural revival of Black music, literature, politics, and arts.

This event in 1965 was the catalyst for Maulana Karenga to create the Pan African Holiday known as Kwanzaa.

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball while this Black man of science broke it in Chemistry. Who is...

This powerful black woman led the Maroons of Jamaica to freedom in the 17th Century. She is...

Who was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University and become U.S. senator?

How old were Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas when they were appointed to the US Supreme Court.

This country had leaders named Menelik and Haile Selassie. It's the only African nation never to be colonized.

The first African American author to write and published a book of poetry was an enslaved woman named

1993's Poetic Justice featuring Tupac and Janet Jackson directed by the late John Singleton was his______ movie.

When we spend our money in the Black community, what Kwanzaa principle are we practicing?

W.E.B DuBois said "the problem of the 20th century will be the problem of the color line." What is his best known work?

Born into slavery, which of these did Robert Smalls not do?

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

This descendent of Africa is the Father of Russian Literature. aka The Russian Shakesphere -He lived from 1799-1837.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka is of African descent by way of what nation?

He Co-founded the Black Panther Party and sponsored free breakfast, food, & school programs for kids.

At fourteen she became a teacher and raised her siblings. She later started a newspaper that condemned lynching.

What music style started in African American communities in New Orleans?

The first black woman to publicly speak out against the horrors of Slavery she also wrote the speech Ain’t I a Woman?

At 19, she became the youngest woman and person of color to run for public office in Georgia, losing by only 22 votes.

In 1804, Toussant L'ouverture lead the 1st successful slave revolt against the French. This event is known as...

What racially charged event in Black History was depicted in the new HBO series Watchmen?

The founder of Kwanzaa studied tribes in Africa to help create Kwanzaa. Which is not a African tribe?

What was the first historically Black college in America?

Which of the following is NOT a book written by the phenomenal Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston?

The digital phone industry makes 355 billion dollars annually. What African American invented the digital cell phone?