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Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played with the accordion?
Zydeco
Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Zora Neale Hurston
Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986?
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City?
Wynton Marsalis
Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?
Writers
Who wrote Clotel, or The President’s Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1833?
William Wells Brown
Who published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American?
William Wells Brown
What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy?
William Christopher Handy
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies:the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman, and the Indianapolis Ledger?
William Alexander Chambers
Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?
Westerns
Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous syndicated comic strip?
Wee Pals
Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
WC Handy
Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers‟ workshops at her home in what city?
Washington, D.C.
Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an African American father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A Red Death, White Butterfly , and Black Betty?
Walter Mosley
Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple, what award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels?
Walter Mosley
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
US Delegate to the United States
Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author Ephraim Poston?
Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston
What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender?
Ulysses and Robert Poston
Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative?
2
Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists of a collection of ten stories?
Tropic Death
In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
US Delegate to the United States
Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author Ephraim Poston?
Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston
What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender?
Ulysses and Robert Poston
Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative?
2
Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists of a collection of ten stories?
Tropic Death
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Nameher.
Toni Morrison
Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums Your Daddy's Doggin' Around and Blues for the Red Boy?
Todd Washington Rhodes
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what group, representing a younger generation of jazz musicians?
The Young Lions
This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television movie. What is the name of the novel?
The Women of Brewster Place
What New York library houses rare collections of Black works?
the Schomburg Center
In the 1930s and early 1940s many female gospel groups were founded. Which group started as a male gospel ensemble but added female voices in the1940s?
The Roberta Martin Singers
What was the name of Charles W. Chesnutt’s final novel?
The Quarry
For what work did August Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama?
The Pittsburgh Cycle
Sallie Martin was the “mother of gospel music.” She and Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933?
the National Convention Of Gospel Choirs and Choruses
Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine?
The Nation
George Shirley was a tenor and member of what
opera company?
the Metropolitan Opera
What Broadway show became the longest running
one-person show in the history of Broadway?
The Lady and Her Music
What was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chesnutt?
The House Behind the Cedars
What Ted Poston work was published after his death in 1974?
The Dark Side of Hopkinsville
What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963?
The Crucifixion
What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?
The Crisis
What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?
The Cotton Club
Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild, what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina?
the Charleston
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
The blues
Ain't No Stoppin’ Us Now , a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in 1979?
the Black National Anthem
Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in 1936 with which band?
the Benny Goodman Quartet
Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her personal
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first Broadway theater to bear the name of an African American in 2005?
the August Wilson Theatre
What Harlem theater is a showcase for Black talent?
The Apollo
What author promoted her first novel, Mama, by contacting colleges and universities?
Terry McMillan
Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to Exhale?
Terry McMillan
What is the name of the Grammy award winning gospel a cappella sextet whose hits include Spread Love and David & Goliath?
Take 6
“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen” are known as what type of songs?
Spirituals
Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music?
Spiritual
This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company. Whether working with a low-budget and
unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries. Name him.
Spike Lee
Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm's aftermath affected African-Americans?
Spike Lee
In 1938, who was the first gospel singer to record for a major record label, Decca Records?
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
For what talent did Elizabeth Taylor-Greenfield
receive worldwide acclaim?
Singing in a range of
27 octaves
Porgy was a black musical play that had its debut in 1927. It became a film in 1959 entitled Porgy and Bess and had an all star black cast. Name two of the actors/actresses that performed in this film?
Sidney Poitier,
Dorothy Dandridge,
Pearl Bailey, Sammy
Davis, Jr.,
Brock Peters,
Diahann Carroll,
Ivan Dixon,
Clarence Muse
Currently the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh, North Carolina, this well-known female singer worked with the gospel group The Caravans established by Albertina Walker. Name her.
Shirley Caesar
Born in Christian County, KY, in 1944, who later became executive producer for the film, The Eye Can Story , a 30- minute documentary created to promote the self-esteem of teenagers and to deter early sexual involvement?
Shirley A. Bacon Nwangwa
Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker. For what other type of work is she best known?
Sculpture
Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem
Renaissance arts educator Augusta Savage was what type of artist?
Sculptor
Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag?
Scott Joplin
The operas A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha were written by whom in the early 1900s?
Scott Joplin
What musical instrument does jazz musician
Grover Washington, Jr. play?
Saxophone
What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music?
Sarah Vaughan
In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part harmony. In 1950 what singer joined this group?
Sam Cooke
Roots, the miniseries, was aired eight nights in 1977 with nearly 130 million viewers. Its 1979 sequel was named what?
Roots: The Next Generation
Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley book?
Roots
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?
Roots
What one-time Negro League professional baseball player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of blacks in the 1960s?
Romare Bearden
What artist‟s painting is entitled After Church?
Romare Bearden
Who was the first Black American painter to win
national recognition?
Robert Scott Duncanson
What famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph Ellison‟s efforts to become a writer?
Richard Wright
What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry?
Rap
Published in 1982, Alice Walker's novel The Color
Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards?
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
Joshua Johnson made his living in the early 1800s with what profession?
Portrait painter
For what style of music were the Ward Singers famous?
Po-Gospel
Published in 1771, what book brought Phillis Wheatley wide acclaim?
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, and Moral
Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument?
Piano
What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe
Black Americans deprivation and racial
discrimination?
Photography
Julian Abele was involved in the design of what museum?
Philadelphia Museum of Art
In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What was it called?
Philadelphia Concert Orchestra
In what city was Marian Anderson born?
Philadelphia
What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925?
Paul Robeson
Who was the first Black American poet to be
nationally recognized for his writing?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Creators of bebop known today as modern jazz, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played what musical instruments?
Parker (alto saxophone); Gillespie(trumpet)
What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring?
Painter
The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He composed how many songs?
over 1000
For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?
Opera Singing
Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American novelist, born?
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Who is the controversial poet and author of My House Is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English?
Nikki Giovanni
In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company.
New York City Ballet
What city known for jazz music had great influence on Mahalia Jackson?
New Orleans
“Bentwa” was a musical instrumental unique to Africa. What kind of instrument was it?
Musical Bow
Ralph Ellison turned to writing after his career in what field was not successful?
Music
What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X?
What Black American cartoonist created the world famous “Wee Pals”?
Muhammad Speaks Morrie Turner
In 1969 this photojournalist became the first black male and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Who was he?
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography?
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
In what state was Langston Hughes born?
Missouri
In 1963, Katherine Dunham became the first Black
American choreographer to work at what New York City Theater?
Metropolitan Opera House
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced?
Maya Angelou
This multifaceted author started her career as an entertainer. She is also a poet who delivered her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. What is her name?
Maya Angelou
What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
Marian Anderson
Who portrayed “Ulrica” in the Musket Ball, was named to the US Delegation to the United Nations, and was awarded the Freedom Medal?
Marian Anderson
Who was the first Black American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York?
Marian Anderson
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in 1939. Who was she?
Marian Anderson
What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins sculpture that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Award in 1951?
Man of Sorrow
She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a
million copies in 1945. What was her name?
Mahalia Jackson
Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic strip?
Luther
Five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his name?
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television mini-series Roots in 1977.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun ?
Lorraine Hansberry
On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great Performers series?
Lincoln Center
Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six Claybron Merriweather books?
Light and Shadows
Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working for what popular magazine?
Life
Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?
Leontyne Price
Who is the author of Before the Mayflower ?
Leone Bennett, Jr.
This pastor and journalist was the religious editor at the Hopkinsville Globe Journal for six years. Name him.
Leonard S.Grooms
Under what name did poet Amiri Baraka publish some of his books?
Le Roi Jones
What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?
Langston Hughes
What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty?
Kente Cloth
What city is known as the “jazz capital of the Southwest?”
Kansas City, Missouri
Robb Armstrong is the creator of what cartoon strip which features the trials and tribulations of Joe and Marcy?
Jump Start
What Black American was acclaimed for his involvement in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
Julian Abele
Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the 1949 Broadway stage production of South Pacific?
Juanita Hall
Playwright August Wilson had two Broadway plays run at the same time. Namethem.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Fences
What was the name of the first publication of
jazz arrangements?
Jelly Roll Blues
What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?
Jazz
What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation's first highly popular Black art form?
Jazz
What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s?
Jazz
What is the name of the main character in the Zora Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God ?
Janie Crawford
This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer who worked with many groups and large choirs in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound. Name him.
James Cleveland
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
James Baldwin
In 1972 Kathleen Battle made her professional debut as an opera singer at the Spoleto Festival in what country?
Italy
In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book?
Invisible Man
The collection of William Alexander Chambers, writer for the Indiana Herald and editor of three African American weeklies, is housed where?
Indiana Historical Society
The first work authored by a black female former slave, what was the name of Harriet A. Jacobs' 1861 work?
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Angelou's first autobiography?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Who was the author of Black Metropolis written in 1945?
Horace Clayton
Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin Cabin ?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , whose 1861 work was the first to be authored by a black female former slave?
Harriet A. Jacobs'
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what?
Harlem Renaissance
What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American Culture?
Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Harlem Gwendolyn Brooks
Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry Annie Allen in 1949?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Who won a Tony Award for his performance in the
Broadway musical Jelly’s Last Jam ?
Gregory Hines
What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway cars in the 1970s that was a phenomenon among the urban youth?
Graffiti
Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie
Hummingbirds?
Gospel Quartets
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film?
Gone With the Wind
Who penned the 1982 novel The Women of Brewster Place later made into a 1989 television miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Larenz Tate, Moses Gunn, and Leon?
Gloria Naylor
Who made the stainless steel sculpture of two wing-like shapes framed by neon lights at the entrance of the Miami International Airport?
Frederick Eversley
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?
Frederick Douglass
Pulitzer Prize winning Black American playwright,
August Wilson was born with whatname?
Frederick August Kittel, Jr.
Who was the first Black American woman to have a full length novel published?
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
for colored girls made its dramatic debut in 1974 and was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced
En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay). What is the full title of this essay?
for colored girls who have considered
suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Who was the first Black American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer?
Florence Price
Who wrote the play All God’s Chillun Got Wings starring Paul Robeson?
Eugene O’Neill
What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planters Peanuts?
Elmer Stoner
Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a sculptress?
Edmonia Lewis
What Black American cartoonist became famous for the cartoon “Cuties”?
E. Simms Campbell
What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie in 1989?
Driving Miss Daisy
Who founded the DuSable Museum of
African-American History, located in Chicago,Illinois?
Dr. Margaret Burroughs
Frequently called The Fire Next Time, what was the name of James Baldwin‟s 1963 bestseller, which electrified both Black and White Americans?
Down at the Cross
A painting of what African American performer was unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII and exhibited at the Paris Expo?
Dora Dean
After over forty years, who became the second black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Denzel Washington
What is the name of the opera singer who sang at
President George W. Bush's inauguration in 2005?
Denyce Graves
She is a dancer-choreographer who is also a director and producer. She was involved with the television show Fame. Name her.
Debbie Allen
Appeal , a book of anti-slavery literature, was written by what Black American?
David Walker
What was the name of the movie that was based on the life of Stephen Bantu Biko, a South African freedom fighter?
Cry Freedom
Who wrote The Lost Zoo, a classic children's book?
Countee Cullen
What was the name of the first published novel written by a Black American, William Wells Brown?
Clotel (or The President's Daughter)
Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them was born in Jamaica?
Claude McKay
Alice Walker‟s Meridian is a novel about what?
Civil Rights Movement
James W.C. Pennington was a slave narrator born on the eastern shore of Maryland. His story shows the
consequences of slavery on whom?
Children
Who wrote The African Origin of Civilization in 1969?
Cheikh Anta Diop
Performing in evening attire, these stars of The Creole Show were the first African American couple to perform on Broadway. Name them.
Charles Johnson and Dora Dean
Who is the author of “The Destruction of Black Civilization”?
Chancellor Williams
In 1982 what Kentucky State University museum became a major repository for the collection of artifacts, books, and records related to its history of educating black citizens?
Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans (CESKAA)
For what 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress ?
Carmen Jones
Beauford Delaney liked to paint what subjects?
Black writers and artists
Go Tell it on the Mountain , the first novel of James Baldwin written in 1953 was about what?
Black ghetto life
Name at least three national renowned 20th Century tap dancers.
Bill Bailey
Charles “Honi” Coles
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Savion Glover
Gregory Hines
Maurice Hines
Fayard Nicholas
Harold Nicholas
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Who wrote the book Born to Rebel ?
Benjamin Mays
What prolific writer published twenty-three articles, hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg Against Tide & Patterns in 2005?
Benjamin Arthur Quarles
In 1988 Black American author Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel?
Beloved
What Hopkinsville native penned the children's books Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz?
bell hooks
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s?
Bebop
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, graduated from what high school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky?
Attucks High School
In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first professional all-black classical ballet company?
Arthur Mitchell
What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry written by Gwendolyn Brooks?
Annie Allen
In 1982, Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film?
An Officer and A Gentleman
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, what poet and playwright is nicknamed LeRoi Jones?
Amiri Baraka
Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living poet," what controversial writer, college professor, and political commentator lost his position as New Jersey's poet laureate after fallout from his controversial 9/11-related poem?
Amiri Baraka
This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations, one of the best known, most often seen modern dance performances. Name him.
Alvin Ailey
What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the
TV miniseries Queen?
Alex Haley’s paternal grandmother
Who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”?
Alex Haley
This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his
seven-generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Name him.
Alex Haley
In 1979, Katherine Dunham received what prestigious award?
Albert Schweitzer Music Award
What type of dance rhythm and movements did
Katherine Dunham introduced in America?
African and Caribbean
Moneta Sleet, Jr., became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for what picture?
a photo of Coretta Scott King and her daughter,
Bernice, at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral
Director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee has released over 35 films since 1983 through his production company. Name it.
40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor of what popular magazine?
Jet
Historians report that there are about how many published slave narratives in book length, newspapers, or transcribed from interviews?
6,000
In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York?
1959
In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first Black American singer at the Metropolitan Opera?
1955
The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year?
1864
The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year?
1852
The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man. In what year was it
published?
1760
How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published?
19
How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write?
2
Miles Davis was a trumpeter of cool jazz, modal jazz, and jazz rock. He served as a bandleader for how many classic quintets in his career?
2
In 1975, who became the first African American to own and operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first black radio station in Detroit, in 1964?
William Venoid Banks
Who built San Francisco's first hotel and opened California’s first public school?
William Leidesdorff
What is the real name of Famous Amos?
Wally Amos
What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans to be imported to the Americas?
Tobacco
What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted Poston, New York Post reporter/author?
Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Post on
What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed in Nicaragua?
The United States Hotel And Restaurant
While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily African American newspapers?
The Negro World and The New York Contender
In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded a radical monthly magazine called what?
The Messenger
Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded as journalism’s “Father Of Minorities”?
Ted Poston
What Hopkinsville native was the first African American reporter for The New York Post and covered many of the race disputes in the South?
Ted Poston
Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro Newspapermen”?
T. Thomas Fortune
Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company?
Ship building and shipping
What was Madame C.J. Walker’s real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
Who was the founder of the National Negro
Finance Corporation?
Robert Moton
Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
Whose career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET) began in 1997 with the launch of the first statewide minority affairs program and continues as producer of KET's longest running public affairs program, Comment on Kentucky?
Renee Shaw
What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry?
Prince Hall
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States ?
Philadelphia Tribune
In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman was known as "The Richest Negro in the South?"
Peter Postel (or Postell),Sr.
Patricia Garrison-Corbin, was the founder, chair, and chief executive officer of what company, which became the first African American female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation?
P. G. Corbin & Company
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a journalist for the Indianapolis Recorder and Hoosier Herald?
Opal L. Tandy
Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff?
One of the first Black American millionaires
Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black newspaper in 1864. Name it.
New Orleans Tribune
Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication similar in form to Reader‟s Digest was later replaced by Black World?
Negro Digest
What was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson?
Negro Digest
Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually,how many black-owned businesses were there in the United States in 2002?
nearly 1.2 million
What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
National Negro Network
What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?
Modeling
What company’s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
Who was the first Black network television anchor?
Max Robinson
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
Who published the first Black American women’s newspaper in the US?
Josephine Ruffin
Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?
Joseph L. Searles
Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing company. Name it.
Johnson Publishing Company
Baltimore’s newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded by what former slave?
John H. Murphy
The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in Chicago in 1945 by what person?
John H. Johnson
Who founded the magazine Ebony?
John H. Johnson
Freedom's Journal , the first black newspaper published in America, was founded in 1827 in New York City by whom?
John B. Russwurm and Samuel E. Cornish
What company has a successful series of television commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby?
Jell-O
In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to control which mainstream daily publication?
Ithaca Journal
Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?
Isaac Myers
Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed its name to what?
Indiana Herald
Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship?
Hugh Mulzac
During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
Holland and Portugal
What is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s TV production company?
Harpo Productions
What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door to-door?
Hair care preparation products
Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type of business?
Grocery store
What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom’s Journal
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
What company was the largest slave-trading operation in the south?
Franklin and Arnold
What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
Flooding
What was the name of Bill Cosby’s first bestselling book?
Fatherhood
What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s Black Woman”?
Essence
What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in1713?
England
What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes?
Ed Bradley
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
Ebony
Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970?
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
Who was the founder of the first African-American female owned Wall Street financial services corporation.
Patricia Garrison-Corbin
Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of what song in 1920?
Crazy Blues
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
Cotton
What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music to a large audience?
Columbia Records
Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station?
CNN
This person was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1874, was the son of former slaves, saved enough money to attend school, became a school teacher, founded three newspapers, was a painter, a poet, and a lawyer. Who was he?
Claybron W. Merriweather
Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the newspaper Hopkinsville Contender , born?
Clarksville, TN
For what is Wally Amos famous?
Chocolate chip cookies
In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio program. On what radio network was the show aired?
CBS
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks?
Black Star Line
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Black Newspaperwoman
Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine?
Billy Eckstine
Name at least two black 1980s television show producers.
Bill Cosby, Tim Reid,
Debbie Allen, Quincy
Jones, and Keenan Ivory Wayans
In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel The Fire in the Flint, which covered what subject?
Bigotry
Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine?
Beverly Johnson
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world's first living trademark as the image of what product?
Aunt Jemima pancake mix
What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well as technicians?
American Negro Theatre
Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine that focuses on black history and culture.
American Legacy
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen, trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did the majority of slaves perform?
Agricultural labor in the Southern colonies (They worked in the fields.)
What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on
Washington?
A. Philip Randolph
In the agricultural field some former slaves were
sharecroppers. What was meant by this term?
A tenant farmer would give his share of crops raised to the landlord as rent
Blues vocalist, song writer, and guitarist John Brim also owned what businesses in Chicago?
a dry cleaning business and a record store
Ed Bradley was a member of what news team?
60 Minutes
What was the name of Eddie Murphy's first movie which grossed over 100 million dollars and propelled him into movie stardom?
48 hours
By 2002, revenues for black-owned businesses rose to what amount, accounting for 5% of all nonfarm businesses in the United States?
$88.6 billion
In what year did A. Philip Randolph organize the
union, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
1925
One of the first black organized labor unions, the
Associated Colored Employees of America was formed in what year?
1917
Northern industries experiencing an economic boom during World War I contributed to the Great Migration beginning in what year?
1915
In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Black American woman bank president?
1903
Born a slave in North Carolina, Peter Postel, Sr.'s estate was later valued at $500,000 as owner of a merchant business in Hopkinsville. In what year was he born?
1841
In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive at Jamestown,Virginia?
1619
Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor union for black train porters, approximately how much money were these workers paid per day?
$2.00
Who was the first Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
What organization helps fund over forty Black
American colleges?
United Negro CollegeFund
What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskegee Institute
What Austin Peay State University building was named for a civil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN?
the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Culture Center
Under what name was North Carolina Central
University founded in
1910 by James E. Shephard?
The National Religious Training School of
Durham
Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce University in Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of what church?
the Methodist Episcopal church
Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs to raise money for their college. What was the name of the choir?
the Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University)
In 1995 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Ruth J. Simmons became the first black president and black woman president of two top ranked colleges. One is a “Seven Sisters” school, and the other is an Ivy League school. Name the institutions.
Smith College
(Northampton,
Massachusetts -
1995)and Brown
University
(Providence, Rhode
Island 2001)
Elaine Farris became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school district?
Shelby County
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?
Spelman College
Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would enable Black Americans to control education, business, and social services within Black American communities?
Roy Innis
Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a will from what Philadelphia Quaker in 1832?
Richard Humphreys
Who was the first Black American to receive a degree from Harvard University?
Richard Greener
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee?
Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel
Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University?
Patrick Healy
In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
Nashville, Tennessee
Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. Under what name does it operate today?
Morgan State University
The University of the District of Columbia was organized by free black women in 1865 under what name?
Miner Normal School
In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born in Trigg County, KY, what first African American student at Murray State University had to be escorted to class by the police and the university president?
Mary Ford Holland
Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first land grant for a black college was made in 1871 in what in city?
Lorman, Mississippi
Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was
originally named the State Normal School for Colored Persons?
Kentucky State University
There is one Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Kentucky. Nameit.
Kentucky State University
In 1993, what 13-year old from Sturgis, KY, became the first African American student to win the
Kentucky Education Association President's Spelling Bee in Frankfort, KY?
Josh Brown
Who was the first Black American woman president of Spelman College?
Johnetta Cole
Who was the first Black American to graduate from college?
John Russwurm
Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to become the first African American to win the Kentucky Education Association President's Spelling Bee?
jodhpurs
Who was the first black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962?
James Meredith
Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him to class?
James Meredith
Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs was the first African American graduate from what university's School of Education?
Indiana State University
Where did young Dr. Carter G. Woodson learn his ABC‟s?
In farm fields
In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university?
Howard University
What is the name of the famous Black college in Washington, D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine?
Howard University
Who was the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville Law School?
Hortense Houston Young
Receiving a doctorate in education in 1960, who was the first African to Earn a Phd. at the University of Kentucky?
Horace E. Tate
The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 to provide financial support to students who are enrolled in what educational institutions?
Historically black colleges and universities (or
HBCUs)
W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. from what prestigious university?
Harvard University
Rhodes Scholar and Hopkinsville native Raymond
Burse attended law school graduating in 1978?
Harvard Law School
Hampton University in Virginia was originally established under what name in 1868?
Hampton Normal And Agricultural Institute
What state has the most black institutions of higher learning?
Georgia
What US federal government agency founded over 4000 schools, including Howard University?
Freedmen's Bureau
Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland was established in 1900 and named after what slave who became one of the leading black women educators of the nineteenth century?
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Born in Falmouth, KY, what man developed the Black Man Think Tank and is the national president of the John D. O'Bryant Think Tank for Black Professionals in Higher Education On Predominantly White Campuses (JDOTT)?
Eric P. Abercrumbie
What Christian County native was a founding member of Kappa Alpha Psi, established in 1911, served as the fraternity's president during the first six years and was awarded the organization's first Laurel Wreath in 1924?
Elder Watson Diggs
At age 49, she became the first African American
school superintendent in Kentucky. Name her.
Elaine Farris
Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and member Board of Education served in the U.S. The Army as a multilingual interpreter foreign languages?
Dr. Clyde B. Akins,Sr.
In 2009, who became the first African American male school superintendent in Kentucky?
Donald Smith
In 2009, who became the dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Law, making him the state's first African American law school dean since the desegregation of Kentucky higher education?
David A. Brennen
Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americans in higher education in the United States.
Clark Atlanta
University, Spelman College,
Morehouse
College,and
Morehouse School of Medicine
What county had the first school libraries for Kentucky Negro children in 1892 and the libraries first for Negro teachers in 1898?
Christian County,KY
In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black woman president of what major university?
California State University At Fullerton
Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver?
Booker T. Washington
Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational education for black people?
Booker T. Washington
What great Black American educator influenced
Marcus Garvey‟s commitment to self improvement?
Booker T. Washington
Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of what prominent educator?
Booker T. Washington
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary
McLeod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library in Kentucky and the South?
Berea College Library
What Kentucky college was integrated with black and white students in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix in 1904?
Berea College
Angus A. Burleigh was the first adult African American to attend and graduate from what Kentucky college?
Berea College
Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia?
Benjamin E. Mays
This, the first and only black college consortium, was founded in 1929. Name it.
Atlanta University System
This graduate of Howard University Medical School was the first African American woman to pass the medical boards and become a doctor in Kentucky. Name her.
Artishia Garcia Gilbert
Born free and later sold into slavery after his father's death, who became the first adult African American to graduate from Berea College?
Angus A. Burleigh
Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early Civil Rights measures including what Act which provided funding for African Americans to seek higher education out of state because Kentucky enforced higher education segregation laws?
Anderson-Mayer
State Aid Act
In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?
Alpha Kappa Alpha
In what state is Tuskegee Institute located?
Alabama
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, originally named Ashmun Institute in honor of the first governor of Liberia, was founded by a pastor of what church in 1854?
a Presbyterian Church
In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school integration?
1955
Xavier University was the first black Catholic college. It opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high school. In what year was the college department added?
1925
In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark, Claflin, Dillard, and Tougaloo Founded?
1869
The African Methodist Episcopal Church founded
Edward Waters College in Live Oak, Florida in what year?
1866
Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as a liberal arts institution in what year?
1865
Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was founded in what year?
1837
How many historically black colleges and universities are there today in the United States? Page 17 of 72
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How did Barney Ford make his fortune?
As a hotel and restaurant owner
What American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader,and composer was the leader of the first Black American band to play in Carnegie Hall?
William "Count" Basie
Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker‟s best-selling book, The Color Purple?
Whoopi Goldberg
What Black actress won a Academy Award for her
supporting role in the movie Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
The Best Supporting Actress award for this 1990
thriller/fantasy film went to a comedian who had a one-woman show on Broadway in the mid-1980s. Who is she?
Whoopi Goldberg
What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You, ”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”?
Whitney Houston
Classic blues singers, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, and Alberta Hunter, were women who came out of what performance tradition?
Vaudeville
Who is the award-winning recording/performing/video artist who recorded the platinum album called The Comfort Zone?
Vanessa Williams
In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Training Day
Harry Belafonte became the first black to receive an Emmy for what show in 1959?
Tonight with Belafonte
The Guinness Book of World Records lists what
Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all times?
Thriller
What was Chubby Checker's longest running hit song on the Top 40 charts?
The Twist
Boasting twelve number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, what female singing group was the most successful American vocal group of all time?
The Supremes
The first rap song to achieve commercial success was “Rapper‟s Delight.” What was the name of the group who recorded this single in 1979?
The Sugar Hill Gang
Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I'll Never Love This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came You with a popular male group and it went gold as well. What is the name of the group?
The Spinners
In the 1920s the Lindy Hop was made famous at this Harlem dance venue.
The Savoy Ballroom
Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Platters
What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history?
The Oprah Winfrey Show
James Bland wrote “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” which is the theme song for what group?
The Mummers
In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
In what motion picture did Bill “Bojangles” Robinson teach Shirley Temple the famous Stair Dance?
The Little Colonel
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, who recorded the song "Twist and Shout"?
The Isley Brothers
Name three dance steps from the Disco era?
the Hustle, the
Bump,and the Bus Stop
“Boogie Wonderland” was Earth, Wind & Fire‟s only Disco song. What was the name of the group of ladies that sang with them on this record?
The Emotions
Lena Horne began her career as a singer and dancer in what New York entertainment club?
The Cotton Club
What producer/songwriter originated the New Jack Swing?
Teddy Riley
In 1941, what jazz piece performed by Duke Ellington and his orchestra became an instant hit?
Take the A Train
On the TV series Magnum, P.I., what was Roger
Mosley's nickname?
T.C.
Who was the second black woman to be crowned
Miss America?
Suzette Charles
In his role in the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Sidney Poitier practiced what profession?
Surgeon
What was the first record company to market rap music to the national audience?
Sugar Hill Records
Alice Walker advised what movie director during the film production of her bestselling book, The Color Purple?
Steven Spielberg
Who became Hollywood's first Black millionaire actor?
Stepin Fetchit
Actress Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role in what television series?
Star Trek
What is MC Hammer's real name?
Stanley Kirk Burrell
In 1972, Cicely Tyson was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in whatfilm?
Sounder
What will be the longest, continuously running,
first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016?
Soul Train
In 1989, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees included The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and this gospel quartet that once featured Sam Cooke. What is the name of the gospel group?
Soul Stirrers
What was the name of the music and dance television show hosted by Marilyn McCoo?
Solid Gold
These artists helped create the Funk music style were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Name the group.
Sly & the Family Stone
During Paul Robeson‟s appearance in Emperor Jones, he was asked to whistle, but he did what instead?
Sing
Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the movie Do the Right Thing?
Shelton Jackson
"Spike" Lee
What TV comedy show made Eddie Murphy a
household name?
Saturday Night Live
What was Louis Armstrong's nickname?
Satchmo
What multifaceted entertainer and 1960s star of Broadway's Golden Boy began his career on the vaudeville stage at age three?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the
White House?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The popular sitcom Amos 'n' Andy originally aired as a radio program with whatname? Page 19 of 72
Sam 'n' Henry
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, who recorded the number one 1957 hit "You Send Me"?
Sam Cooke
This hip-hop mogul has a record label, clothing line, beverage and movie production companies. He initiated the careers of LL Cool J and Will Smith. Who is he?
Russell Simmons
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Run-DMC
In 1986, Dexter Gordan was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in whatfilm?
Round Midnight
What actor and stand up comedian warned others of the dangers of drug abuse after his own near death experience?
Richard Pryor
What is Little Richard‟s given name?
Richard Pennington
For what type of music was Bob Marley famous?
Reggae
What was John Elroy Sanford‟s stage name?
Redd Foxx
Howard Rollins received an Oscar nomination for what movie?
Ragtime
What is the stage name of female rapper and actress Dana Owens?
Queen Latifah
In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is she?
Queen Latifah
Which rap artist founded Flavor Unit Records and
Management that handles rap and new-style rhythm and blues groups?
Queen Latifah
In what 1984 movie did artist Prince have a starring role?
Purple Rain
Name the hip-hop group that created the theme song “Fight the Power” to Spike Lee's film Do The Right Thing.
Public Enemy
What instrument did Count Basie play, while leading his group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”?
Piano (oregon)
What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play?
Piano
What is the name of Debbie Allen's sister who appeared on the Cosby Show?
Phylicia Rashad
Bill Cosby, Will Smith and Kobe Bryant were born in “the city of brotherly love.” What is the name of the city?
Philadelphia
What song has become Count Basie's theme song and was later recorded by many different music groups?
One O‟clock Jump
What was the name of the famous jazz band Louis Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922?
Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
In 1950 Sidney Poitier made his film debut in what movie?
No Way Out
Who was the first Black American master of ceremonies of a nationally televised show?
Nipsey Russell
The Cotton Club, The Savoy, and Small's Paradise were major among what type of social venue during the Harlem Renaissance?
Nightclubs
In what city was Louis Armstrong born?
New Orleans
Who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for “Unforgettable”, a musical tribute to her late father?
Natalie Cole
What was the name of the first successful TV variety show starring a Black American?
Nat King Cole Show
Initially popular with his jazz trio, he shifted to mainstream pop music and achieved international acclaim along with a bit of criticism for that shift and for playing segregated clubs in the South. Name this popular entertainer whose variety show aired in 1956.
Nat King Cole
Influenced by pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, he was interested in music early on and played piano and sang in the church choir. His first hit was "Straighten Up and Fly Right", based on one of his father's sermons. Name Him.
Nat King Cole
Entertainment Who was the star of the 1977 movie The
Muhammad Ali
Originally dubbed Tamla Records in 1959, what highly successful record company did Berry Gordy, Jr. incorporate in 1960?
Motown Records
What is the music-related nickname of Detroit, Michigan?
Motown
What was “Ma” Rainey‟s nickname?
Mother of the Blues
Which rapper known for such albums as Black on Both Sides began rhyming at age nine in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York?
Mos Def
The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin recorded how
many albums?
More than 50
For what film did Halle Berry win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001?
Monster‟s Ball
What is the name of the singer-dancer who performed the “Moonwalk” in the 1980s?
Michael Jackson
Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wiz?
Michael Jackson
What pop rock star devoted much of his life and music to his belief that “children are our future”?
Michael Jackson
In 1984, what Black American singer won eight
Grammy Awards?
Michael Jackson
What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy master diver Carl M.Brashear?
Men of Honor
In 1912, W.C. Handy, father of the blues, published what song, one of the first to be published on sheet music?
Memphis Blues
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
Who was the female lead singer of 5th Dimension, a popular group of the 1960s and 1970s?
Marilyn McCoo
What early 20th century artist was the first blues singer to have a recording contract?
Mamie Smith
What actor played the role of Bill Cosby's son Theo on The Cosby Show?
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
What musical artist released the hit album Power of Love?
Luther Vandross
This trumpet player was also a vocalist and was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What was his name?
Louis “Satchmo”Armstrong
What famous singer hosts the annual Parade of Stars in order to raise money for the United Negro College Fund?
Lou Rawls
What was the given name of popular comedienne and pioneer of African-American vaudeville, Moms Mabley?
Loretta Mary Aiken
James Todd Smith is the given name of what rapper/actor?
LL Cool J
Who played the character of “Denise” in the Cosby Show?
Lisa Bonet
What was the given name of Stepin Fetchit, the first black actor to become a millionaire?
Lincoln Theodore
Monroe Andrew Perry
In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first Black American to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film?
Lillie‟s of the Field
Chic had five records during the Disco era. Three of them went gold. Name the 1978 record that went platinum.
Le Freak
Billie Holiday's life was the subject of what famous film?
Lady Sings the Blues
What does the nickname of rapper and actor LL Cool J stand for?
Ladies Love Cool James
Who played the role of Dwayne Wayne on the TV series A Different World?
Kadeem Hardison
Who was regarded as a master guitar player and developed a program for learning the guitar?
Justin Howard
She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. She was a singer,dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the French resistance during World War II. Name this popular entertainer.
Josephine Baker
Who was the leader of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band?
Joseph Oliver
Who was the first Black American musician to perform concert tours?
Joseph Douglass
Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 Fast 2 Furious?
John Singleton
What was the given name of comedian Redd Foxx?
John Elroy Sanford
What was Dizzy Gillespie's real name?
John Birks Gillespie
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, what guitar and harmonica player with "Sonny Boy" Williamson and Muddy Waters?
John Brim
What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard before starting his solo career?
Jimi Hendrix
Cuba Gooding, Jr., a Bronx native, won the award for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for what film?
Jerry Maguire
What was Ferdinand Morton‟s nickname?
Jelly Roll
Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie Star Wars?
James Earl Jones
His style of funk music and dance led the way for Disco and Hip Hop. Known as the “hardest working man in show business” and "the godfather of soul," who is he?
James Brown
What Kentucky native and martial artist starred in the films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones?
James "Jim" Kelly
What is the surname of singers LaToya, Janet, and Michael?
Jackson
What Black American female comic was known as “Moms”?
Jackie Mabley
Entertainment Name the singer whose nickname is “Little Moses.”
Isaac Hayes
Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV
comedy show?
In Living Color
Quincy Jones wrote a full length score for what
Hollywood movie?
In Cold Blood
In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?
Ike and Tina Turner
What Gloria Gaynor hit won her a platinum record in 1979?
I Will Survive
Bill Cosby won two Emmy Awards in the 1960s for
his performance in what TV series?
I Spy
Count Basie won his first Grammy Award in 1963
for instrumental arrangement of what song?
I Can‟t Stop Loving You
What Motown song writer/producer trio was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990?
Holland, Dozier, & Holland
What song recorded by Louis Armstrong became the nation's number on record in 1964?
Hello Dolly
What was the name of the group that sang the platinum record “Boogie Nights” in 1977?
Heatwave
Who was the first Black American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
Entertainment In 1959, who became the first black to receive an
H
What company produced the 1989 television miniseries The Women of Brewster Place?
Harpo Productions
This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career as a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Who is she?
Halle Berry
Musician and Hopkinsville native John Brim taught himself to play what two instruments?
Guitar and harmonica
Sidney Poitier starred in a famous movie about an
interracial marriage. What was the name of the movie?
Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner
What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a Black American Woman?
Georgia, Georgia
This talented blues singer/artist was blind at an early age, raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself to play music. Fusing spirituals with folk music, he developed his
own style of guitar playing with unusual chord progressions– partially due to a hand injury – that became his trademark. Name him.
Gary Davis
Entertainment What actor played Charlie “Bird” Parker in the 1988 movie.
Forest Whitaker
Raised in Detroit's Brewster-Douglass housing project, name two of the founding members of The Supremes, Motown Records' most commercially successful act to date.
Florence Ballard, Mary
Wilson, Diana Ross,
and Betty McGlown
What is Clerow Wilson, Jr.‟s stage name?
Flip Wilson
Nell Carter appeared in the 1980s version of Ain't
Misbehavin' whose title song was composed in 1929 by whom?
Fats Waller
Whose well known songs include “Ain‟t That a Shame, “I'm Walkin”, and “Poor Me”?
Fats Domino
What is the nickname of pianist and singer-songwriter Antoine Dominique Domino?
Fats
What song was the first hit for Gladys Knights and the Pips?
Every Beat of My Heart
What two actress played the roll of Beulah, a housekeeper in the 1950s television spin-off of the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly?
Ethel Waters and
Louise Beavers
What Black American jazz pianist and composer is known for the ballad Misty and 1955 recording Concert by the Sea?
Errol Louis Garner
Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915 with what name?
Eleanora fa*gan
What was Duke Ellington‟s given name?
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Who starred in the box office hit Trading Places?
Eddie Murphy
Who starred in the blockbuster movie Beverly Hills Cop?
Eddie Murphy
Who was a sidekick on The Jack Benny Show?
Eddie “Rochester”Anderson
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson were featured in what dramatic series from 1963 to 1964?
East Side, West Side
What 1989 movie won several Academy Awards, including Best Picture?
Driving Miss Daisy
What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show?
Dr. Cliff Huxtable
Known in vaudeville as "The Black Venus," what Kentucky native cake walk dance with her husband Charles?
Dora Dean
What was the birth name of international vaudeville performer Dora Dean?
Dora Babbage
The uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor‟s records are around fourteen minutes and nineteen minutes, respectively. What are the names of these Disco divas‟ records that lasted so long?
Donna Summer's “Love to Love You” was about fourteen minutes. Gloria Gaynor‟s “Never Can
Say Goodbye” was
about
nineteen minutes.
From 1975 to 1980 this Disco star had eight gold records and two platinum records. Name her.
Donna Summer
Who was the creator, director, and host of the popular television show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006?
Don Cornelius
What famous musician‟s trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward?
Dizzy Gillespie
Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”?
Dinah Washington
What Black American actress had roles in the movies A Raisin in the Sun and Blues for Mr. Charlie?
Diana Sands
What performer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues?
Diana Ross
The film Glory was based on America's first unit of
black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film?
Denzel Washington
What role did Jester Hairston play on the TV sitcom Amen?
Deacon
What Saturday Night Live alumnus co-starred with
Eddie Murphy in the hit motion picture Trading Places?
Dan Akroyd
In the 1950s, Joe Williams's vocals were featured on what band's albums such as One O'Clock Jump?
Count Basie Orchestra
Pianist Duke Ellington was a bandleader and a great composer who played at what famous New York City club from 1927 to 1931?
Cotton Club
Eddie Murphy played an African prince in what motion picture?
Coming to America
The television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman starred what actress who traced her family history from slavery to the Civil Rights era?
Cicely Tyson
Who starred in the movie A Woman Called Moses ?
Cicely Tyson
Who made the song “Johnny B Goode” popular?
Chuck Berry
He got his break on American Bandstand in the 1960s for recording, dancing, and popularizing the twist. Name him.
Chubby Checker
Name the orchestra of which Ella Fitzgerald sang with and eventually became the leader.
Chick Webb Orchestra
Herbie Hanco*ck began studying piano at age seven and performed with what orchestra in a young people's concert?
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra
Evelyn King received gold records for her songs Shame (1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was this artist's nickname?
Champagne
Entertainment Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman series?
Catwoman
Born in Princeton, KY, what jazz pianist played with greats such as Woody Herman, Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane as well as for singers such as Diana Ross, Big Maybelle,and Dinah Washington?
Bross Elvie Townsend, Jr.
In the mid-1970s what form of dancing where the dancer flipped and spinned developed from the Disco scene in the Bronx?
Breakdancing
Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley High Harmony?
Boyz II Men
B.B. King is noted for what type of music?
Blues
What New York City nightclub was named after Charlie Parker?
Birdland
What was the nickname of renowned jazz musician Charlie Parker?
Bird
Who composed Duke Ellington's orchestra‟s theme song, “Take the A Train” in 1941?
Billy Strayhorn
Portrayed by Diana Ross in the film Lady Sings the Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song “Strange Fruit” became her signature piece?
Billie Holiday
What famous female vocalist toured with “The Count Basie Orchestra”?
Billie Holiday
Considered the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what artist was known as the “empress of the blues”?
Bessie Smith
“Ma” Rainey taught what singer how to sing the blues?
Bessie Smith
What non-performer, founder of Motown was inducted into the hall of fame in 1988 with The Drifters and The
Supremes?
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Robert Guillaume starred in what TV series?
Benson
What was the nickname of jazz saxophonist ?
Coleman Hawkins
Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930s in what city?
Baltimore
Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”?
Aretha Franklin
What all-black situation comedy television show started as a radio program in the 1920s to 1950s whose actors were all white?
Amos „n‟ Andy
Vanessa Bell appeared on what soap opera?
All My Children
Who sang the theme song for the hit TV series Moonlighting?
Al Jarreau
What platinum song was called the “Black National Anthem” in 1979?
Ain't No Stoppin‟ Us Now
In 1943, in what film did pianist Fats Waller perform and Stormy Weather portray Lena Horne singing the title song?
Ain't Misbehavin‟
By what other name is jazz musician Fitz Jones known?
Ahmad Jamal
What was Ira Aldridge‟s profession?
Actor
Hazel Payne and Janice Johnson sang the platinum record “Boogie Oogie Oogie” in 1978. What is the name of their group?
A Taste of Honey
Sang by Diahann Carroll, this song was made popular in the film version of Porgy and Bess . Name it.
“Summertime”
What is the name of B.B. King's guitar?
“Lucille”
Name at least three songs recorded by Donna Summer.
“Love to Love You” (1975), “I Feel Love” (1977), “Last Dance” (1978), “MacArthur Park” (1978), “Heaven
Knows” (1979) with
Brooklyn Dreams, “Hot
Stuff” (1979), “Bad Girls” (1979), “Dim All the Lights” (1979), “On The Radio”
(1980), and “The
Wanderer”(1980).
What recording, performed by Count Basie and sung by Frank Sinatra, was played on the moon by US Astronauts on July 20, 1969?
“Fly Me to the Moon”
What hit song made Ella Fitzgerald a national celebrity at the age of 20?
“A Tisket, A Tasket”
Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year?
1994
In what year were Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown and Etta James inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
1993
Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T. and the MG‟s, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Isley Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year?
1992
In what year were musical artists Louis Armstrong and Hank Ballard inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1,990
In What year did Driving Miss Daisy win the Oscar for Best Picture?
1989
In what year did the cartoon strip Herb and Jamaal debut?
1989
In what year were The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
1989
In what year, were artists Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, and Aretha Franklin included into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
1987
Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year?
1986
In what year did Quincy Jones won five Grammy awards?
1983
In what year did the cable network BET begin
broadcasting music videos?
1980
Robert "Bob" Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television Cable
Network (BET) in what year?
1979
The book Roots was made into a movie in what year?
1977
The “old school” rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was formed in what year?
1977
In what year did Lena Horne appear in the movie
Stormy Weather?
1943
In what year was the movie Off to the Bloomingdale Asylum released?
1902
For how many weeks did Chubby Checker‟s hit song, The Twist, stay on the top 40 charts?
33
How many black artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987? Page 26 of 72
12
What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records?
$3.40
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
YMCA
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s executive assistant?
Wyatt Tee Walker
Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?
Woolworth‟s store in
Greensboro, North Carolina
How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799?
Won money in a
lottery and purchased his freedom
This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist
and historian. Name Him.
William Wells Brown
Who was the first black born in colonial America at
Jamestown, Virginia?
William Tucker
Who helped form the “American Moral Reform Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?
William S. Whipper
Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest?
William S. Whipper
Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968?
William O. Dillard, Sr.
The modern Pentecostal movement originated from the Azusa Street
Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black
Holiness Preacher?
William J. Seymour
What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund?
William H. Gray, III
What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois?
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Who was the first Black American to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor?
William Carney
In 1624 what was the first black child born in English America named?
William Tucker
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city?
Washington, DC
Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington‟s leadership and to protest against the lynchings and disenfranchisem*nt of black voters, the Niagara Movement was organized in Canada by what black middle-class intellectuals?
W.E.B. Du Bois and
William Monroe Trotter
What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement?
W.E.B Du Bois
What state's government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661?
Virginia's
In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?
Virginia
Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League?
Vernon Jordan, Jr.
What state was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
The first African American lawyer for a New Jersey State Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first African American inducted into what law school's Hall of Fame in 1997?
University of
Kentucky Law School
What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promote racial pride and self improvement?
Universal Negro
Improvement and
Association and
African
CommunitiesLeague
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
The 1890s was called the “women's era” in black history because of the rise of the black women's clubs and
movement. For what reasons were these clubs and associations formed?
to provide social
services and promote racial and gender equality for women in their communities
What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit?
Thurgood Marshall
Who were the Exodusters?
They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who
settled in Kansas in 1879
In February 1960 four students from Greensboro Agricultural and Technical College in North Carolina sat at a whites-only lunch counter and asked to be served. The waitress refused. What happened next?
The students waited and left at the end of the day. The next two days
students from the college and white
students from a local
women‟s college
formed a “sit-in.” Since That incident many sit-ins were organized throughout the South to protest
segregated seating at
public institutions.
What was the first serious uprising among slaves took place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act, which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in South Carolina to assemble and movefreely?
The Stono Rebellion
In the early nineteenth century many slaves were converted to Christianity during this national religious revival during 1790- 1830 that occurred throughout the plantations of the South.
the Second Great
Awakening
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by
Frederick Douglass?
The North Star
In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what non denominational religious association and mutual aid society?
the Free African
Society Of Philadelphia
Nashville's first ordained African American minister, Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000 members, the largest church in Tennessee during his time?
The First
Colored Baptist Church
Inspired by the Atlanta child murders of the early 1980s, what James Baldwin book-length essay was published in 1985?
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
On January 1, 1863 what significant declaration did President Lincoln issue?
The Emancipation
Proclamation
What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a chief and called him “Bull‟s Robe”?
The Crow
In 1870 the third black Methodist denomination was founded under what name later changed in 1954 to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in America?
the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church in
America
James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500 million to be collected from White churches and synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black Americans?
The Black Manifesto
What was the first learned society specifically devoted to the professional study of black history by Carter G.
Woodson in 1915?
The Association for
the Study of Negro
Lifeand History
Which two black churches emerged from the Free
African Society?
the African Methodist
Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and the St.
Thomas‟s African
Episcopal Church in 1794
Founded before the American Revolution on the William Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River in Mecklenburg, Virginia, the first known black church was of what origin?
the African Baptist or
“Bluestone” Church
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and1860?
The “Middle Passage”
Who was the fourth chairman of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
Stokely Carmichael
In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a whites only lunch counter to protest discrimination?
Staged a sit-in
In 1972, Gordon Parks received what prestigious
award presented by the NAACP?
Spingarn Medal
What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?
Sphinx
Slaves were known to revolt against the slave system. In 1739 the Stono Rebellion occurred in what colony?
South Carolina (twenty miles west of Charleston)
What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in 1851 at a convention on women's rights in Akron, Ohio?
Sojourner Truth
What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to the North?
Sojourner Truth
The black cowboys that came with white landowners who settled in Texas were usually what class of people?
Slaves
Paul Cuffe established a lucrative trade partnership with what African Country?
Sierra Leone
What was the name of the system in which Black
Americans farmed someone else's land and received a split of the season's crop?
Sharecropping
What was the original reason for establishing the Black Panther Party?
Self Defense
What was the first southern city to integrate all of their public facilities?
San Antonio, Texas
Who was known as the “Black Daniel Webster”?
Samuel Ward
What Black American was Associate Director of the Peace Corps?
Samuel Proctor
Who was the first African American woman admitted to the Kentucky Bar?
Sally J. Seals White
What Black American sparked the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”?
Rosa Parks
Who started the first Black American church in Vermont?
Rodney S.Patterson
With whom did the term “Black Power” originate?
Richard Wright
He was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom. He became the founder and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1816. Who was he?
Richard Allen
Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what
scholarship and attended the University of Oxford, majoring in organic chemistry and graduating in 1975?
Rhodes Scholarship
This minister‟s given name is Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I´keren cotter). He established the United Christian Evangelistic Association in 1962 and was the first black minister with a television show. What is the name he is known by?
Rev. Ike
Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in 1843 that made people regard him as one of the most militant abolitionists?
Rev. Henry Garnet
Known as the “dean of black preachers” he became pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948?
Rev. Gardner C.Taylor
The flag representing the Black Movement is comprised of what three colors?
Red, Black, and Green
What term describes the turbulent period of time marked by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of 1919 and lasted until the end of the year?
Red Summer
What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Born in Hopkinsville, KY, the youngest of the twelve children, what student athlete declined football scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored in chemistry and math and graduated in 1973?
Raymond M.Burse
After Martin Luther King Jr‟s death, who succeeded him as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Ralph Abernathy
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the famous “poor people's campaign” in Washington D.C.?
Ralph Abernathy
What did many associate with the term “Jim Crow”?
Racial segregation
During the 1960s, what erupted in Philadelphia, Chicago, and other major cities due to the turbulent social and political climate?
Race riots
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
President Abraham Lincoln
George Washington commended what Black American woman for her literary achievements?
Phillis Wheatley
In what city was the first National Negro Convention held?
Philadelphia
Who were the “Freedom Riders”?
People who
rode segregated buses
and trains
The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev.
Jesse Jackson, stand for what?
People United to
Serve Humanity
What was the name of Father Divine‟s movement,
which emphasized social equality?
Peace Missions
Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the official publication of the National Urban League is called what?
Opportunity
Between 1915 and the mid-1920s approximately how many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the North and the West as part of the Great Migration?
one million
In 1955 who became the first African American graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School?e 30 of 72
Ollen B. Hinnant, II
The Black Panther Party was founded in what California city?
Oakland
Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to win
what prestigious award?
Nobel Peace Prize
What African country has the largest population?
Nigeria
In what city was Malcolm X arrested?
New York City
What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures?
New Orleans
What Kentucky slave freed in 1845 became the first ordained African American minister in Nashville, Tennessee?
Nelson G. Merry
Whitney Young advocated civil rights reform through what organization?
National Urban League
Dorothy Height was the president of what organization?
National Council of
Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder and president of what national association?
National Council of
Negro Women
In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national organization?
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (or
NAACP)
What national organization was founded on President Lincoln's Birthday?
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (or
NAACP)
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
Nation of Islam
In 1841 Frederick Douglass began his career as an abolitionist orator in whattown?
Nantucket
Who was the first African American missionary worker and an organizer of the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the largest African American churches in Chicago?
Nancy Green
Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of what organization in 1909?
NAACP
Who became the first woman to chair the NAACP?
Myrlie Evers-Williams
What famous narrative was written by Solomon Northrup, a fugitive slave?
My Bondage & My
Freedom
By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40, what nickname had he earned from the press?
Mr. Civil Rights
What was the nickname given to Harriett Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves?
Moses
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally of about 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city in 1965?
Montgomery, Alabama
What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
As of July 1, 2007, which state, at 38%, had the
highest percentage black population?
Mississippi
What civil rights leader from Mississippi was slain in 1963?
Medgar Evers
He worked for the NAACP and became the first field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June 1963. Who was he?
Medgar Evers
In what state was Black nationalist Paul Cuffe born?
Massachusetts
Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 after six years of planning?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who was referred to as “Black Mary” or “Stagecoach Mary”?
Mary Fields
Who is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Struggle in California?”
Mary Ellen Pleasant
“Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's first president.
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
What is the name of the memorial center of which Coretta Scott King was Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Center for Nonviolent
Struggle
She helped organize the National Federation of
Afro-American Women in 1896 and was known as the “lady principal”of Tuskegee. Who was this wife of Booker T. Washington?
Margaret
Murray
Who was the founder of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association?
Washington
Marcus Garvey
Who founded the first major Black American Nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to
Africa?
Marcus Garvey
What Black leader promoted a nationalist movement similar in concept to Paul Cuffe‟s?
Marcus Garvey
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965?
March on Selma
After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was he?
Malcolm X
What devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad left the Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group called Muslim Mosque?
Malcolm X
Who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
What Black American allowed Gordon Parks and Life magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim Movement?
Malcolm X
What was Malcolm X‟s given name?
Malcolm Little
The Bible called her “The Queen of Sheba”. What was the African Queen called by her people?
Makeda
What was the name of the Indian leader who became a model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s non-violent and peaceful movement?
Mahatma Gandhi
Many rural black Kentuckians came to what city in
Kentucky after the Civil War to escape white vigilante groups?
Louisville
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot on the balcony of what hotel and city in 1968?
Lorraine Motel
in Memphis, Tennessee
In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in what city?
London
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published what periodical in 1831?
Liberator
Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason?
Leading a slave revolt
Which black town in New Jersey was originally named Free Haven?
Lawnside
Who was the first African-American postmaster in Kentucky and the second in the United States?
Laura Young
Jorno Kenyatta was a leader of what country?
Kenya
Which state was the first in the South to have trained African American librarians and the first to have a library training program for African American librarians in 1912?
Kentucky
What woman, born in Hanco*ck County, KY, became the first African American switchboard operator at the U.S. Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959?
Julia E. Jackson Aikens
What dictator secretly attended one of Marion
Anderson‟s performances?
Joseph Stalin
What indentured servant testified at a trial of a white man in 1624 after proving was a free man because he was baptized in England in 1612?
John Phillip
What Chicago abolitionist led a 12 year campaign to abolish the Ill Laws that denied Black American the right to vote?
John Jones
Who wrote From Slavery to Freedom , a comprehensive book on the history of Black Americans?
John Hope Franklin
What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
Who started the Gold Medal Awards, later named for him, which recognized the highest or noblest achievement by a Black American?
Joel E. Spingarn
In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called?
Jim Crow
Who founded an economic program called “The People United to Save Humanity”?
Jesse Jackson
In 1984, who negotiated the release of Lieutenant
Robert Goodman, a prisoner held captive in Syria?
Jesse Jackson
What famous Black American founded the National Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH?
Jesse Jackson
Who said, “Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst?"
James Weldon Johnson
Who was the founder of CORE, the Congress of
Racial Equality?
James Farmer
Ordained in 1854, who was the first black Roman Catholic priest and bishop in the United States?
James Augustine Healy
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded a monthly magazine entitled Black Man in whatcountry?
Jamaica
Where was Marcus Garvey born?
Jamaica
What is the significance of Fort Huachuca (Hoo´-a-chu´-ka)?
It was the headquarters of all Black regiments
including the Buffalo
Soldiers for 20 years
What was significant about the slave ship “Amistad”?
It was controlled by
slave mutineers
What was “Freedom Summer?”
It was a campaign in
the South to register
black people to vote
during the summer of
1964.
What was the purpose of the 1963 March on Washington?
It demanded
economic and
employment
opportunities as well as civil rights.
What was the significance of the 1944 US Supreme Court ruling in Smith v. Allwright?
It banned the “white
primary” which prevented Blacks in the south from voting
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863?
It abolished slavery in the rebel states but not on the border states
Elijah Muhammad traveled throughout the United
States spreading the teachings of what religious
movement?
Islam
What was Sojourner Truth's name when she was a slave in Ulster County, New York?
Isabella Baumfree
In 1990, Jesse Jackson negotiated the release of 300 hostages held in what country?
Iraq
Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked “Whites Only”?
Ida B. Wells
What Jesse Jackson chant was repeated by his supporters with a feeling of pride?
I Am Somebody
Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party?
Huey P. Newton and
Bobby Seale
As leader of the boycott organization in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his initial civil rights address at what church in Montgomery in 1955?
Holt Street Baptist Church
Which Presbyterian minister delivered a militant speech entitled “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” in 1843 at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, New York?
Henry Highland Garnet
What happened to Denmark Vessey after he was convicted of raising an insurrection against slave owners?
He was hanged
Who is Cornel West?
He is an essayist,
public speaker, social
activist, author,
and professor.
Why was army hero Colonel John Pershing called “Black Jack”?
He commanded a Cavalry Regiment of Negro soldiers
Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she intended to freedom on the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
What New York City neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”?
Harlem
Nat Turner was executed on November 11, 1831, for his participation in a slave revolt. What method of execution was used?
Hanging
In 1961, W.E.B. Du Bois renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of what country?
Ghana
Located on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, what town became the first African American community in Monroe County, KY, in 1846?
Freetown, Kentucky
In 1961 groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants. By what name was this group known?
Freedom Riders
In 1865 Congress established a relief agency to administer to the needs of former slaves. What was it called?
Freedmen's Bureau
What is the given name of Rev. Ike, the first black minister with a television show?
Frederick
Eikerenkoetter
(I´keren-cotter)
“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” was a speech delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by what
abolitionist orator?
Frederick Douglass
Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”?
Frederick Douglass
Born in 1916, who served as the first president of
the Hopkinsville civic group Pioneers, Inc.?
Francis E. Whitney
How many months would a slave ship usually stay on the African coast to wait for available Africans, food supplies, and the health of the Africans and crew?
Four to six months
Who financed and built the “Emancipation Statue”
in Washington, DC‟s Lincoln Park in 1879?
Former Slaves
Who was Joel E. Spingarn?
Former president
of the NAACP
How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write?
Five
For what is Gloria Dean Randle Scott remembered?
First black president of
the Girl Scouts of
America
Frederick Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights and fought for the ratification of what amendment that guarantees all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race?
Fifteenth Amendment
In the 1930s this federal organization compiled testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that were published in the 1970s. Name the organization.
Federal Writers Project
Black History Month is celebrated during what month?
February
Who was the first American born Black man to be ordained a Roman Catholic Priest?
Father Tolton
What religious leader set up “Peace Missions” throughout the country?
Father Divine
Who was recognized as the “First Lady of Civil Rights”?
Fannie Lou Hamer
Kwanzaa describes what African celebration?
Fall Harvest
Who was the first Black American Catholic Archbishop?
Eugene A. Marino
What was the Indian name of Chicago at the time of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable‟s settlement?
Eschikagou
Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by doing what?
Escaping to Chicago
via the Underground
Railroad
Whose series Political Satires were published in the Kentucky New Era from 1908-1912?
Ephraim Poston
The first wife of W.C. Handy, what Kentucky native died of a brain hemorrhage at New York City's Knickerbocker Hospital due to a clerk's hour-long delay in admitting her?
Elizabeth P. Handy
What was Elijah Muhammad‟s given name?
Elijah Poole
He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim
leader‟s Islamic name?
Elijah Muhammad
Who was the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975?
Elijah Muhammad
How many Southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America in 1861?
Eleven
Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what country?
Egypt
What Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The Negro politician, his success and failure ; Martin Luther King: the peaceful warrior ; and The SCLC Story?
Edward T.Clayton
Hartshorn Memorial College was established in the basem*nt of what Baptist church in 1883?
Ebenezer Baptist
Church(in Richmond,
Virginia)
President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 to what great musician?
He became pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem in 1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Who is he?
Duke Ellington
Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950?
Dr. Ralph Bunche
On January 3, 1964, who did Time Magazine name as the first Black American “Man of the Year”?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who founded the Southern Leadership Conference?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate of the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Who was he?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who received the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988?
Dorothy Height
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‟s first church?
Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church
Rodeos were common around the 1880s and black cowboys were a part of it. The most famous of the black cowboys was Nat Love. He was known as who?
Deadwood Dick
What would have been a typical dinner for frontier
explorer James Beckwourth?
Coarse grained buffalo meat
What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King‟s widow?
Coretta Scott King
What led to a significant exodus of African American residents from Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1904?
Collapse of the
tobacco market
What famous Black American woman dedicated her life to finding her lost family, which had been separated by slave owners?
Clara Brown
The word “carpetbagger” was first used during the aftermath of what war?
Civil War
Key provisions of what federal legislation include Equal Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation,
Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of Public Education and Voting Rights?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress. It guaranteed what to the former slaves?
Citizenship and“equal
benefits of all laws”
In 1822, where did Denmark Vesey plan to launch an attack in an effort to release Blacks from bondage?
Charleston, South Carolina
During the transatlantic slave trade, which two cities had the largest slave tradedepots?
Charleston and New
York City
Who founded the Church of God in Christ in 1907?
Charles Harrison Mason
From where did the term “Jim Crow” originate?
Character in popular
minstrel shows of
the19th Century
This historian founded many journals, among them was the Journal of Negro History in 1916.
Carter G. Woodson
Who is known as the “Father of Negro History” documenting African-American stories and achievements through useof innovative research approaches including legal records, diaries and oral histories – methods that have since been widely adopted byhistorians?
Carter G. Woodson
Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black History Month) who also established the first historical society devoted exclusively to research on the black American.
Carter G. Woodson
Who served on the board of directors of the NAACP for 36 years?
Carl J. Murphy
Henry Bibb was a fugitive slave narrator and journalist. He emigrated to what country?
Canada
After uncovering stolen evidence and crusading for justice, Myrlie Evers-Williams was able to see whose sentencing for the murder of Medgar Evers in 1994?
Byron De La Beckwith
During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers of Africans were imported to what three countries?
Brazil, Jamaica, and Haiti
Black revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces during what conflict in 1770?
Boston Massacre
In what city is the Crispus Attucks Monument located?
Boston
Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
A 50 cent coin was introduced in 1946 that honored what famous Black American?
Booker T. Washington
This man presented the speech "Atlanta Exposition Address" at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in 1895. Name him.
Booker T. Washington
What was Marcus Garvey‟s nickname?
Black Moses
Prince Hall was the first Grand Master of what group?
Black Masons
What slogan called for recognition of the cultural achievements of Black Americans?
Black is Beautiful
Who were John Horse and John Caesar?
Black Indians who lived with the Seminole
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of the freed slaves?
Black Codes
What term referred to the large Black population in the Southern cotton growing states?
Black Belt
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
Bishop Desmond Tutu
Who retired as Executive Director of the NAACP in 1993?
Benjamin Hooks
Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual Advisor”?
Benjamin E. Mays
For what were George Washington and Sabrien
Bates remembered?
Being cowboys
who rode with Billy the
Kid
What was the title of W.E.B. Du Bois‟s 1946 address delivered at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature?
Behold the Land
Fugitive slaves from Kentucky crossed the Ohio River and arrived into the town of Ripley, Ohio to do what?
Become free
What were the holding pens which kept the enslaved Africans until they were transported called?
Barracoons
Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Barney Ford
Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal publication Harvard Law Review ?
Barack Hussein Obama,II
What movement did Marcus Garvey believe to be the answer to the problems of Black Americans?
Back to Africa
What date is noted as the day when Western Kentucky African Americans learned that slavery had ended and, therefore, is a day of celebration for families in communities such as Paducah and Crofton,Kentucky?
August 8 (or 8th of August)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in what city in 1929?
Atlanta, Georgia
Who helped to organize the first “Negro Baptist” church in the American colonies in Savannah, Georgia?
Andrew Bryan
How many people attended the historic March on
Washington held on August 28,1963?
an estimated 250,000
people
What is a slave narrative?
What was the name of the first national Black convention that was organized by Richard Allen in 1830?
An
autobiographical account dictated or written
by former slaves
American Society of
Free Persons of Color
This former slave received a degree in Theology. He was also appointed chaplain to the all-black Twenty-fourth Infantry by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. Who was he?
Allen Allensworth
In 1897, an organization called the American Negro Academy started under whose leadership?
Alexander Crummell
Who became the first Black American awarded a
Rhodes Scholarship in 1940?
Alain Leroy Locke
A slave ship called “Clothilde” (Clōtilda) was the last ship to arrive in American. Where did it land?
Alabama
Richard Allen was the first bishop of what is now the oldest Black established church in the United States. What is the name of the church?
African Methodist
Episcopal Church
He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a
congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he?
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Who was the first Black minister ordained in America?
Absalom Jones
It is estimated that how many Africans survived the transatlantic slave trade in the early sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century?
about ten million
What lawsuit, the third filed by the NAACP, was filed in Federal District Court in 1940 on behalf of an African American teacher who received 15% less salary than white teachers?
Abington v Board of
Education of Louisville
Who was Martin R.Delany?
a militant spokesman
for Black liberation
What did Paul Cuffe want to establish for Black Americans in the early 1800s?
a homeland in Africa
Who was “Big Jim” Simpson?
A fiddle playing cowboy
Blacks made up more than one-fourth of the population in how many states by July 1, 2007?
6 (Mississippi 38%,
Louisiana 32%,Georgia 31%, Maryland 30%,
South Carolina 29%,
andAlabama 27%)
How many slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War?
4 million
In what three years was Harlem hit with race riots?
1935, 1943 and 1964
When was Denmark Vesey‟s army of Blacks organized to fight slavery?
1822 (forty years before the Civil War)
Phillis Wheatley came to the US from west Africa at age seven or How long did it take her to learn the English Language?
16 months
“Free at last, free at last; thank God almighty, ….” Complete Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s “I Have a Dream” speech.
“… we are free at last.”
In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther King Day?
1993
Sparked by the state court acquittal of four police officers involved in the Rodney King beating, the Los Angeles Riot were sparked in what year?
1992
In what year was a national holiday proclaimed
commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s birthday?
1983
The Miami Race Riot happened in what year?
1980
In what year did “Black History Month” officially begin?
1976
In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
1968
Atlanta, Newark, Washington, D.C. and Detroit had race riots in what year?
1967
The infamous Watts race riots occurred in what year?
1965
What year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1964
In what year was Civil Rights Leader Medgar
Evers assassinated?
1963
The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what year?
1963
Birmingham had race riot violence in the spring of what year?
1963
What year did Jesse Gray lead 30,000 people to strike for needed apartment repairs in New York City?
1963
In what year did the “Greensboro Four” stage their first sit in?
1960
In what year did the US Supreme Court outlawed segregation of dining cars?
1950
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in what year?
1942
In what year did Alain Leroy Locke become the first Black American to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship?
1940
In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. born?
1929
In what year was the Tulsa Race Riot?
1921
Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Longview, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; and Elaine, Arkansas all faced race riots in what year?
1919
The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was organized in what year with blacks and whites as members?
1909
In what year did Black attorney John Swett Rock practice before the U.S. Supreme Court?
1865
In what year did the United States abolish slavery?
1865
In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation
become effective?
1863
In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law passed?
1850
In what year did Macon B. Allen become the first
Black American Lawyer?
1845
In what year did Congress pass the Missouri
Compromise, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories?
1820
How old was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was assassinated?
3
Carl J. Murphy served on the Board of Directors of the NAACP for how many years?
36
How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to rescue Black slaves?
19
In 1910 the black population made up what percentage of the total United States population of nearly 93.5 million people?
10.70%
What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces?
World War II
President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank Battalion, an all black unit, for fighting in what war?
World War II
In May 1941, the 758th Tank Battalion was the first
African American tank battalion to fight in which war?
World War II
After his service in what war was Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs instrumental in having the
Indianaconstitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard?
World War I
What war led Colin Powell to conclude that an army should not enter into combat unless it had a clear objective?
Vietnam
In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became the last to admit blacks?
U.S. Marine Corps
Inducted into the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2005, Robert Coleman was a veteran of what branch of the U.S. armed services?
U.S. Air Force
Many civil rights leaders were opposed to the war in Vietnam for what reason?
They were distressed over the high rate of casualties among the black troops.
Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were known collectively as what?
the Women's Army
Corps (or WAC)
Born in Kentucky, Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African American Navy master diver, lost the lower part of his left leg in an accident on what naval ship?
the USS Hoist
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces?
the U.S. Army
What was the largest black unit in the Korean War?
The
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Regiment
What black support unit drove supplies by truck to advancing American forces and also performed yeoman service during the Battle of the
Bulge in 1944?
The Red Ball Express
Dorie Miller, a mess man with the Navy, manned a machine gun without experience and shot down four enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action?
the Navy Cross
Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the 332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the ground while never losing a single bomber. They were awarded the honor for the service?
the Distinguished
Flying Cross
What awards did the French government present to the black soldiers and their battalions for bravery and courage?
the Croix de
Guerre,the
distinguished French
decoration, or
Legion Of Merit
During the American Revolution, Black soldiers fought with which two organizations as pilots, gunner's mates, boatswain's mates, and manned the coastal galleys?
the Continental
Navy And the
Continental Army
The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson's administration to establish what officer‟s training school for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa?
The Colored Officers‟
Training Camp (or COTC)
What was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II?
the 6888th Postal Unit
Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval officers were known as what?
the “Golden Thirteen”
What did Pompey Lamb do to help aid the
American Revolutionary War Effort?
Spy
William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his participation in whatwar?
Who was the first Black American admiral in the US Navy?
Spanish American War Samuel L Gravely, Jr.
During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862.
Robert Smalls
Born in Kentucky, who was the first African American to die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines?
Robert H. Brooks
Who was the only accredited Black American
war correspondent in World War?
Ralph Waldo Tyler
The last units of U.S. troops came home from Vietnam in the spring of 1973. Who was the president of the United States at that time?
President Richard M.Nixon
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, was the first black general of the Air Force. He was instrumental in getting what president to end segregation in the armed forces?
President Harry S. Truman
What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?
President Abraham Lincoln
World War II began in Europe when Adolf Hitler invaded what country in September 1939?
Poland
Which black soldiers were with General George
Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776?
Oliver Cromwell
and Prince Whipple
The first African American to die in World War II, Robert H. Brooks passed for white when joining what reserve military force?
National Guard
Who were the first African American women Army
officers stationed in Kentucky?
Myrtle Anderson and
Margaret
Elizabeth Barnes Jones
Who became the first Black American to hold the rank of major during the Civil War?
Martin Delany
What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer?
Major Martin R.Delany
In 1967, who became the first African American
Kentucky graduate from the United States Air Force Academy?
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Thomas
Lee Cunningham
Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775 during the Revolutionary War?
Lord Dunmore
A West Point graduate and 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army, who became the first African American general post commander at Fort Knox in 1993?
Larry Jordan
During what war did PFC William Thompson receive his Congressional Medal of Honor?
Korean War
Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her work in entertaining the Work War II allies?
Josephine Baker
What Black American sailor won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines?
John Lawson
Born in Paducah, KY, who was the first African American To receive commission in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1948?
John E. Rudder
Who was the Confederate president during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
Nominated by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper at the age of 19, who was the first African American from Kentucky to be named to West Point Military Academy?
James Phillips Holland
Transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion after an incident in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian bus, he was one of the more notable members of the first United States Army armored unit to be made up of African American soldiers. Name him.
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to the U.S. Government?
Henry Flipper
Who was the first Black American to attend the US Naval Academy?
Henry Conyers
What US President ended segregation in the US Armed Forces by issuing an Executive Order?
Harry S.Truman
Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army?
Harriet Tubman
Who was responsible for securing equal rights for Black Troops during the Civil War?
George T. Downing
Which Union general is credited with burning Atlanta during the Civil War?
General William T.Sherman
In 1864 President Lincoln appointed this general as commander in chief of all Union forces. Who washe?
General Ulysses S.Grant
Who was the commander in chief of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E.Lee
Although it was immediately disbanded, this general formed the First
South Carolina Volunteer Regiment for blacks in 1862. Name him.
General David Hunter
What was the name of the fort where Confederate
soldiers attacked federal troops on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Who was the first Black American woman doctor in the US Navy?
Dr. Donna P. Davis
American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Navy at the time, for bravery shown during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Doris Miller
What African American naval cook shot down four enemy planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Dorie Miller
Which four states were border states during the Civil War?
Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky, and Missouri
Who was the first Black American four star general in US military history?
Daniel James, Jr.
A casualty of the Boston Massacre in 1770, what was the name of the Boston fugitive slave who was called the first martyr of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attucks
Who was the first Black American to die in the
Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black soldiers in the Steward's Branch where they worked as what?
Cooks and waiters
In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white abolitionist?
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
What author of My American Journey commanded the2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY in 1976?
Colin Powell
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest ranking military officer?
Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Who was the first African American master diver in the U.S. Navy, the only amputee deep-sea diver to attain that level?
Carl Maxie Brashear
On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone?
Captain Benjamin O.
Davis, Jr.
Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?
Buffalo Soldiers
What main parade ground in Fort Knox is named in honor of Robethe first African American to die in World War II?
Brooks Field
In April, 1775, blacks in the military fought alongside their white counterparts in what American Revolution battles?
Battles of Lexington
and Concord
Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in many battles of the Revolutionary War. In June 1775 he shot Major John Pitcairn, a British leader, during what battle?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Doris Miller responded quickly during what attack, making him the first American hero of World War II?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in what branch of the military?
Army
Oliver Cromwell was a well-known freedom fighter in what war?
American Revolution
When did Robert E. Lee encourage the recruitment of Blacks?
After the
Confederacy
suffered huge losses
During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass served as an adviser to what US President?
Abraham Lincoln
General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army refused to return runaway slaves to their masters. What term did he use to describe them?
“Contraband of war”
By when did the last all-black U.S. armed forces
unit disbanded?
June 1952
Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. became the first black
four-star general in what year?
1975
In what year did the U.S. Navy commissioned its first group of black officers?
1944
In what year did the War Department grant equal pay for white and black soldiers after many protest?
1864
Black Americans were authorized to enlist in the US Navy in what year?
1861
How many Black Americans received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War?
23
Coleman Young and Thomas Bradley were elected mayors of which cities in 1973?
Young – Detroit
(Michigan). Bradley – Los Angeles (California)
Born in 1947, who became the first African American judge to serve on the Louisville District Court in 1978?
William E. McAnulty, Jr.
What did security guard Frank Wills discover in 1972?
Watergate break-in
Washington, D.C.
In 1991 Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to become mayor of what major city?
Washington, D.C.
L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black
American governor of what state in 1989?
Virginia
What was the first Black American female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court?
Violette M.Anderson
Who ruled the “separate but equal” doctrine invalid in 1954?
US Supreme Court
John Mercer Langston was the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was he elected?
US House of
Representatives
Robert Poston was assistant secretary-general of
what organization when went to Liberia in 1924 and died of pneumonia on his return trip to the U.S.?
Universal Negro
Improvement
Association (UNIA)
The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature, Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate delegate to what body?
United Nations
What constitutional amendment prohibited the requirement of a poll tax or any other tax for the privilege to vote?
Twenty-fourth
Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed what attorney as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
What provision written in 1787 was included in the
U.S. Constitution?
Three-fifths of all slaves counted
for representation
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States". After initially being rejected by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This amendment was
The Thirteenth Amendment
Blanche Bruce went on to become the first black elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Who elected him?
The Mississippi Legislature
Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the federal government and states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting?
the Fifteenth Amendment
What Christian County, KY, magisterial district has been served by Black magistrates since it was formed in 1905?
the 1st District
For what state did Barbara Jordan serve as state senator and U.S. congresswoman?
Texas
In 1986 Eddie Bernice Johnson was elected to the U.S. Senate. She also served as secretary of the Congressional
Black Caucus. What state did she represent?
Texas
In 1916, who was re-elected for the third time as Magistrate of the 1st District of Christian County?
T. H. Moore
Who was the first magistrate elected to serve residents of the First Magisterial District in Christian County?
T. H. Moore
What African American currently serves as the
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations?
Susan Rice
U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil rights movement through what organization?
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
In 1999, President Clinton named the first African
American U.S. Attorney in Kentucky. Name him.
Steven S. Reed
During the Reconstruction Era, twenty blacks served in the House of Representatives, eight of whom were from what state.
South Carolina
How many blacks served in the U.S. Congress during the Reconstruction Era?
Sixteen
In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for President of the United States?
Shirley Chisholm
After an early childhood spent in Barbados and a successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the New York Assembly. She then became the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked for 13 years. Name her.
Shirley Chisholm
Bill Dillard became the first African American in
Kentucky elected to what office in 1981?
Sheriff
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
She was a civil rights
advocate who helped
register black people
to vote in Mississippi.
In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, becoming the first Black American woman mayor of a major US city?
Sharon Pratt Kelly
With 20 years' service, who was the longest serving African American member of the Kentucky General Assembly?
Senator Georgia Powers
What was Robert Weaver‟s title when he became a presidential cabinet member?
Secretary of
Housing And Urban
Development
Who was the first Black American Chosen to lead a major political party?
Ronald Brown
He was the first black to serve as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee in 1989. He was also the first black U.S. secretary of commerce. What was his name?
Ronald Brown
Who was the first Black American member of a
presidential cabinet?
Robert Weaver
Who became a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1972?
Robert N.C. Nix, Jr.
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this civil rights activist was the first African American president of the Paducah Local ofthe National Association of Letter Carriers and Mayor Pro Tem for 6 years. Name Him.
Robert Alfonzo Coleman
Many blacks held political offices in the South
during Reconstruction as members of what political party?
Republican
Who advanced legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19), the celebration of the freedom of African American slaves, a holiday in Kentucky?
Representative
Reginald Meeks
What president swore in, Robert Weaver, the first black member of a presidential cabinet?
President Lyndon B.
Johnson
On June 12, 1963 what president delivered nationwide television address that outlined a proposition to Congress that would prohibit segregation in public facilities and schools?
President John F.Kennedy
In 1994, which president named Eddie Jordan, Jr. as the first African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney in the state of Louisiana?
President Bill Clinton
What president vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the Civil Rights bill?
President Andrew Johnson
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to be elected to Congress. She also campaigned for what office in 1972?
What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?
President
Plessy v. Ferguson
Selected by Governor Paul Patton to serve as Circuit Court Judge in 1999, who became the first African American woman appointed to the bench in Kentucky?
Pamela R.Goodwine
In 1871 who became the first Black American governor?
P.B.S. Pinchback
Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of
Representatives to represent what state?
New York
One of the first two African Americans to practice law in the Louisville courts, who was the first African American judge in Kentucky?
Nathaniel R. Harper
What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all
railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Blacks?
Mitchell v.
US Interstate
Commerce Act
What candidate defeated Jesse Jackson in the
1988 Democratic Presidential Race?
Michael Dukakis
Who led voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the late 1960s?
Medgar Evers
On November 7, 1967, Carl B. Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected to whatoffice?
Mayor
In 1973 James Dulin became the first African American man appointed to what office in Earlington, Kentucky?
Mayor
He became Atlanta‟s first and youngest black mayor in 1974, a position he held for three terms. Name him.
Maynard Jackson, Jr.
In 1997 she became the third woman to chair the
Congressional Black Caucus. Who is this Congresswoman from California?
Maxine Waters
In 1865 John S. Rock became the first black admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His practice was in what state?
Massachusetts
What Black American educator also served as an advisor to five U.S.presidents?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who served as Director of Minority Affairs for
President Roosevelt?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who was the first Black American lawyer to be admitted to the bar?
Macon B. Allen
Who was the first Black American municipal judge?
M.W. Gibbs
Who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1987, who became the first African American woman to serve on the Hopkinsville, KY, City Council?
Luevenia Watkins
P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in U.S. history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S.
Senate. What state did he represent?
Louisiana
What test was given to potential Black voters to determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution and could read?
Literacy test
Who was the first elected Black American governor in Virginia?
L. Douglas Wilder
In 2005, William E. McAnulty, Jr., became the first
African American to serve on what Kentucky court?
Kentucky Supreme Court
In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984, Rev. Jesse
Jackson‟s dramatic call was to do what?
Keep hope alive
A celebration of the freedom of African American slaves, Kentucky Representative Reginald Meeks led the push for the creation of what holiday in Kentucky?
Juneteenth National
Freedom Day
What Black American was a vice presidential candidate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
Julian Bond
Who was the first Black American elected to the US House of Representatives?
Joseph H. Rainey
Who was the first Black American to preside over a national political convention?
John Roy Lynch
In 1888, this great-uncle of writer Langston Hughes became the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia. Name him.
John Mercer Langston
Who was the founder of the National Democratic Party in Alabama?
John L Cashin, Jr.
In 1960, Andrew Hatcher was named Associate Press Secretary to what US President?
John F. Kennedy
In 1976, Barbara Jordan gave a rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention for what US presidential candidate?
Jimmy Carter
What U.S. President appointed Andrew Young Ambassador to the United Nations?
Jimmy Carter
In 1983, this minister announced his candidacy for president of the Democratic Party. Name him.
Jesse Jackson
Who was the United States ambassador to Sweden from 1970 to 1972?
Jerome Holland
In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond, Virginia to try the case of what former Confederacy president?
Jefferson Davis
Hiram Revels, the first black elected to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1870, was selected to fill in the unexpired term of whom?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the second African American mayor in Kentucky?
James W. Dulin
What Christian County native worked in the coal mines and became the first African American elected to the Earlington, KY, City Council in 1972?
James W. Dulin
He became the first African American since 1897 to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Congress. Name him.
James Clyburn
Appointed by Governor Steve Beshear in 2007, who was the first African American to be appointed Secretary of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet?
J. Michael Brown
Who was the first Black American female judge in the United States?
J. Matilda Bolin
Born in Hopkinsville, KY, who, in 1972, had held public office longer than any other African American elected official in Kentucky?
J. Daniel S. Massie
In 1964, Carl T. Rowan was named Director of what US agency?
Information Agency
In 1996 Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative from what state?
Illinois
Carol Moseley-Braun was one of six women who was sworn in to the 103rd Congress on January 3, 1993. What state did she represent?
Illinois
Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S. Senate seat in what state?
Illinois
Who was the first Black American senator in Congress?
Hiram Revels
Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes were among the first two blacks to be elected mayor of which major U.S. cities in 1967?
Hatcher – Gary, Indiana and Stokes – Cleveland, Ohio
In 1983 who became the first black mayor of Chicago, Illinois?
Harold Washington
Elected to represent Senate District 33 of Jefferson County, who was the first African American man elected to the Kentucky
Gerald A. Neal
The first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and the first African American to run for mayor of Atlanta, Horace Tate was elected to what body in 1974?
Georgia State Senate
Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African American and first woman in the Kentucky Senate?
Georgia D.Powers
Elected in Washington County in 1973, who became the first African American jailer in Kentucky?
George Melwood Hocker
What U.S. President developed a coalition of Black advisors call the Black Cabinet?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1969 James Evers was elected the first black mayor of a Mississippi town since Reconstruction. Name the town.
Fayette, Mississippi
Pamela R. Goodwine served as Circuit Court Judge beginning in 1999 in what Kentucky county?
Fayette County
Born in Florida, who became the first African American chief prosecutor in Kentucky when he was elected
Commonwealth Attorney in 1987?
Ernest A. Jasmin, Sr.
In 2009, who became the first African American U.S. attorney general and head of the Justice Department and its 110,000 employees?
Eric H. Holder Jr.
Re-elected continuously until 1907, who was the first African American elected to Hopkinsville City Council beginning in 1885?
Edward Glass
In January 1967 what Republican was the first black to be elected to the Senate for a full term since
Reconstruction?
Edward Brooke
Who was the first Black American to be appointed as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations?
Edith Sampson
Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected, who was the only African American woman in Kentucky holding a city council post in 1977?
Dorothy Morrow
In 2002, Eddie Jordan, Jr. became the first African
American elected to what position in New Orleans,
Louisiana?
District Attorney
Who became New York City‟s first black mayor on January 1, 1990?
David Dinkins
Who was the first Black American woman elected to a state legislature?
Crystal Bird Fauset
Who was the first Black American female national
security advisor?
Condoleezza Rice
Who was the first Black American national security advisor? Who was President Ronald Reagan's national security advisor?
Colin Powell
Who was the first Black American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Colin Powell
Who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 and appointed as Secretary of State in 2001 in President George W. Bush's first term?
Colin Powell
Who was the first Black American mayor of Detroit?
Coleman Young
When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme Court, who was appointed to fill his position?
Clarence Thomas
Ratified in 1868, what did the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution Grant?
Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
This city in Ohio elected three black mayors between 1972 and 1991. Name it.
Cincinnati
Harold Washington became what city‟s first Black mayor?
Chicago
Who was the first Black American woman to be elected to the 20th Century Club of Boston?
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Who was the first Black American female lawyer?
Charlotte E. Ray
Born in Louisville, KY, this graduate of Wilberforce University received his law degree from Howard University School of Law. He was elected to the Kentucky House of
Representatives, making him the first African American Kentucky legislator. Name him.
Charles W. Anderson, Jr.
Who was the first Black American female senator to Congress?
Carol E. Moseley Braun
Who was the first Black mayor of a major US city?
Carl B. Stokes
In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a monumental decision in what famous case?
Brown vs. Board of
Education of Topeka
A mischievous child, Thurgood Marshall was forced to read the U.S. Constitution as punishment and, by high school, had it memorized. As lawyer for the NAACP, before his
appointment as the first black Supreme Court justice, he argued and won what case challenging public school segregation?
Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka
Who was the first former Black Panther Party member elected to Congress representing Illinois‟s 1st Congressional District?
Bobby Rush
Who was the first Black American to serve a full term in the US Senate?
Blanche Bruce
What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?
Black Panther Party
This candidate won her first city council race in 1983 at the age of 70. After going on to win 10 re-elections, who became the oldest elected and serving official in Kentucky?
Bernice Dickerson
Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule for a new trial in the “Scottsboro Case”?
Because blacks were
excluded from the jury
She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Nameher.
Barbara Jordan
What is the name of the first Black American woman to give the keynote address at a national political convention?
Barbara Jordan
Inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009, who became the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Hussein Obama,II
Maynard Jackson became the first Black American mayor of what city?
Atlanta
After serving as city council member from 1972-1983, who was elected mayor of Earlington, KY, in 1984?
Arthur T. Johnson
This former mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s was appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations in 1977. Name him.
Andrew Young
Who was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979?
Andrew Young
Civil rights activist and Cassius Clay's first attorney, who became the first African American woman
prosecutor in Kentucky in 1964?
Alberta Odell Jones
Shortly after becoming the first woman prosecutor in 1964, what former civil rights activist's August 1965 murder case remains unsolved?
Alberta Odell Jones
Elected to Congress in 1944, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. also became pastor of what Harlem church?
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Barbara Jordan was a member of the 1974 House Judiciary Committee chosen to hear Watergate testimony which led to the resignation of what US President?
Richard M. Nixon
Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected as mayor of US cities on what date?
November 7, 1967
Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what year?
2005
In what year did Thurgood Marshall retire from the US Supreme Court?
1991
Gerald Neal, the first African American man elected to the Kentucky Senate was first elected in what year?
1990
In what year did Jesse Jackson run for President of the United States?
1988
In what year was Thurgood Marshall, becoming its first black justice, nominated to the US Supreme Court?
1967
In what year was Robert Weaver sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
1966
Blanche K. Bruce was born a slave. He became the first black to be elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. In what year was he elected to the Senate?
1874
Born in 1900, for how many years did Hopkinsville native J. Daniel Massie serve as magistrate of the First
Magisterial District in Christian County?
27
For how many years did F.E. Whitney serve as a member of Hopkinsville City Council?
21
Bernice Dickerson, the oldest elected and serving official in Kentucky, won how many city council elections?
11
For how many terms was T. H. Moore elected to serve as magistrate of the First Magisterial District in Christian County?
3
Who invented a patent for his invention of a mass
release mechanism for satellites?
Wilson Hull
In 1803 the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana Territory. Which of the two brought along his slave? Name the slave.
William Clark. He took
his slave, York.
What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy?
Wendell Belfield
What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used aboard a Skylab space mission?
Waste management
system
Who invented the riding saddle for horses?
W.D. David
What Black American physician was referred to as
“The principal historian of the Negro in medicine” in 1970?
W. Montague Cobb
St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from what school in 1916?
University of Illinois
Prior to Joseph Lee‟s bread making invention, how many people were needed to produce the same amount of loaves per day?
Twelve
Where was George Washington Carver‟s laboratory?
Tuskegee Institute,Alabama
These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?
Tuskegee Airmen
Donald E. Jefferson invented what mechanism used by construction crews?
Triggered exploding
wire device
What was the name of Paul Cuffe‟s ship, which made an expedition to Africa?
Traveler
What famous inventor did Lewis Latimer work with in the development of the electric lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones?
Thermostat
What famous dermatologist treated leprosy and syphilis?
Theodore K.Lawless
What famous aviator brothers helped promote Paul Laurence Dunbar‟s poetry and became his good friend?
The Wright Brothers
A pediatrician and founder of what medical facility, Grace Marilynn James was the first African American woman member of the Jefferson County Medical Society and the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville School of Medicine?
the West Louisville
Medical Center
Used by the 99th Pursuit Squadron, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Institute established what
training program for blackpilots?
The Tuskegee
Army AirField
Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what
invention patented by Alexander Graham Bell?
The Telephone
What did Benjamin Banneker‟s book Almanac examine?
The sun, moon, and planets
Dr. Ronald McNair was a black astronaut who made his first space shuttle mission in 1984. Unfortunately, his last space mission was never completed. What happened to him and his crew members on January 28, 1986?
The space shuttle that
Dr. McNair and six other astronauts were
exploded after takeoff in Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
What did Elijah McCoy patent in 1872 that drastically improved the speed and efficiency of industrial machinery?
The lubricator cup
What was Leonard Julien‟s sugar cane planter invention call Who invented the common dust mop?
T.W.Steward
In 1872, what inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses for carriages?
T.J. Boyd
Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to detect what disease?
Syphilis
What did George Washington Carver use to develop postage stamp glue?
Sweet Potatoes
Who was the first female Black American to enter the medical profession?
Susan McKinney
Who was the first African American cave explorer and the first guide and explorer of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave system?
Stephen Bishop
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States?
St. Elmo Brady
Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in what occupation?
Soybean Chemist
The Stargell Foundation is recognized for what area of research?
Sickle Cell Anemia
Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan E.
Matzeliger invented what?
Shoe lasting machine
At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy traveled to what country in order to study engineering?
Scotland
The ironing board was invented by what Black
American woman?
Sarah Boone
Who was the first Black American member of the US Atomic Energy Commission?
Samuel Nabrit
What invention made James Forten one of the wealthiest men in America?
Sail controls for ships
What Black American invented an exhaust purifier?
Rufus Stokes
Matthew Henson traveled with what famous explorer during the expedition to the North Pole?
Robert Peary
Who invented the automatic car washer?
Richard Spikes
What noted inventor patented an improvement for the automatic gear shift?
Richard Spikes
Who invented directional signals for the automobile?
Richard Spike
Who was the first black female awarded a medical degree?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Who was the first Black American woman doctor?
Rebecca Lee
Who patented the envelope seal in 1897?
R.W. Leslie
What Black American inventor received a patent for the guitar?
R.F. Fleming
Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit from what U.S. President?
President Woodrow Wilson
Hiram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?
potato chip
Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject?
Physics
Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital, Phillip C. Brooks served in what capacities?
Physician and surgeon
Who invented the disposable syringe?
Phil Brooks
St. Elmo Brady was the first African American admitted to what chemistry honor society?
Phi Lambda Upsilon
What was the profession of Garland H. Brooks,
Hopkinsville native and Howard University graduate?
Pharmacist
George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what common food item?
Peanuts
What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, and instant coffee?
Peanuts
What Black American designed homes for celebrities such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra?
Paul Williams
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African
American female Sloan Fellow at MIT?
Patricia Garrison-Corbin
Who developed the first airborne radar system that was used for locating downed aircraft?
Ozzie Williams
Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart stimulator?
Otis Boykin
What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Open heart surgery
Matthew Henson was with the first expedition to reach what destination?
North Pole
What engineer from New Orleans patented the sugar refinery?
Norbert Rillieux
What Black American invented an inexpensive method of refining sugar?
Norbert Rillieux
What father and son team served as guides at Mammoth Cave for 49 and 19 years respectively?
Nick and Matt Bransford
In what city was Robert Rillieux, inventor and scientist born in 1806?
New Orleans
In 1978, Ronald McNair was accepted by NASA for its astronaut candidate program. What is NASA‟s full name?
National
Aeronautics And Space Administration
What famous cowboy involved in gun battles with bandits and Indians earned the nickname “Deadwood Dick” for his expert marksmanship?
Nat Love
Where is Meharry Medical College located?
Nashville, Tennessee
George Washington Carver‟s mule-drawn wagon often went to area farmers to teach them about improving crop yields. What was this wagon called?
Moveable School
What did J.R. Pickering patent in 1900?
Modified airship
As a member of the Challenger space shuttle team, what was Dr. Ronald McNair‟s responsibility?
Mission Science
Who published the Black American medical journal in 1892?
Specialist Miles
Who is responsible for inventing the method of converting gas into electricity?
Vandahurst Lynk
James Glass, Hopkinsville native and long-time Henderson doctor, received his medical degree from what school in 1906?
Meharry Medical College
What was the name of the first all Black Medical school?
Meharry Medical College
In 1909 what black explorer accompanied
Admiral Robert Peary to the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
Who was the first man to discover the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
What explorer departed from a famous expedition aboard the ship “Roosevelt” on July 6,1908?
Matthew Henson
Who provided life-saving heroics to help his group of explorers reach the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
Who was first woman assigned by the US Navy to
study underwater acoustics?
Mary Middleton
Who was the first Black American professionally trained as a registered nurse in the United States?
Mary Mahoney
Born in 1881, who was the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky?
Mary Eliza Merritt
Ernest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for what type of research?
Marine eggs
Born in Bowling Green, KY, what aerospace engineer with IBM and Westinghouse went on to become the first African American woman to become dean at a major southern law
school and one of the first African American female law professors in the United States?
Marilyn V.Yarbrough
Ainsworth
What black female inventor patented a home security system?
Marie Brown
At age 18, Stephen Bishop was sold to Dr. John Croghan along with what in 1839 ?
Mammoth Cave
Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African American cave explorer made a published map of what cave?
Mammoth Cave
Who was the first Black American to pilot a space
shuttle mission?
Major Frederick D. Gregory
What Black American woman used the trial and error method to invent hair care products in 1905?
Madam C.J. Walker
Sarah Breedlove Walker developed special hair care products for black women. Among them was the hot comb. By what name she was known?
Madam C.J. Walker
Who invented the burglar alarm?
Louis Alexander
Paul Williams served as co-architect for what major international airport?
Los Angeles
Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly in space?
Lieutenant Colonel GuionS. Bluford, Jr.
Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone?
Lewis Latimer
What Black American inventor worked for both General Electric and Westinghouse?
Lewis Latimer
Who became the only Black American member of the famous “Edison Pioneers,” a group of people who had worked with Edison before 1885?
Lewis Latimer
Resigning in 1940, who was the last African American guide for Mammoth Cave, eight years before the cave was turned over to the federal government?
LewisBransford
Who designed and patented the dustpan?
L.P. Ray
Who invented the folding bed?
L.C. Bailey
Who invented the bread crumbing machine and the bread making machine?
Joseph Lee
The Holland Tunnel was designed and constructed by what Black American?
Joseph L. Parker
James Beckwourth became chief scout for what explorer in 1848?
John Fremont
Who invented the electron microscope?
John Coleman
What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his famous reaper?
Joe Anderson
What important railway coupling device did Andrew J. Beard invent?
Jenny Coupler
The son of a slave and French pirate's mate, what Haitian frontier explorer became a wealthy businessman, owning a large home, stable, barn, smokehouse, workshop, dairy, and trading post?
Jean Baptiste Pointe
du Sable
Who made the first practical shoe-making machine?
Jan Matzeliger
Who patented corrosion resistant alloy steels?
James Parsons
Born in Hopkinsville, this physician and surgeon practiced in Henderson, Kentucky, for 50 years. Name him.
James G. Glass
Who invented the device that made it easier to handle the sails of large ships?
James Forten
Who was the first accredited Black American physician in the United States?
James Derham
What Black American became General John C.
Fremont's chief scout in 1848?
James Beckwourth
Who patented a means of propulsion for airplanes in 1920?
James Adams
What was the name of the crude sugar refining process Norbert Rillieux's invention made obsolete?
Jamaica Train
What famous sports figure received a patent on an improved monkeywrench?
Jack Johnson
Who revolutionized the baking industry with the invention of the dough roller?
J.W. Reed
Who invented the pencil sharpener?
J.L. Love
Who invented the lawn mower?
J.A. Burr
Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator?
J. Standard
What was the significance of Granville T. Woods “telephone transmitter,” which he invented in 1884?
It carried voices
longer distances
What common saying refers to a famous Black
American inventor?
Is it the real McCoy?
What household item was invented by Sarah Boone?
Ironing board
Darnley E. Howard, Sr. and Darnley M. Howard, Jr., father and son, shared the same profession?
Inventors
What profession was held by Garrett Morgan and Lloyd Hall?
Inventor
Matthew Henson learned the language and skills of what Indian tribe?
Inuit
What did Lewis Howard Latimer and Hiram S. Maxim invent?
Incandescent Electric Light
August Jackson created what well-known desert?
Ice Cream
What was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as Black Eagle?
Hubert Julian
What Black American inventor received a patent for an airplane safety device in 1921?
Hubert Julian
Brothers and Hopkinsville natives, Garland and Phillip Brooks received advance degrees from what school?
Howard University
What Black American patented the corn harvester?
Henry Blair
What Black American inventor patented the cotton planter and seed planter?
Thomas L. Jennings
Who was the first Black American to obtain a patent for a dry cleaning process called "dry scouring?"
Henry Blair
Who invented the first cornhusker?
Henry Blair
Harry C. Hopkins received a patent for enhancing what medical device?
Hearing Aid
What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid?
Harry Hopkins
In 1953, Solomon Harper invented what
thermostatically controlled device?
Hair Curlers
What Attucks High School graduate, founded Kirkwood General Hospital, the last Black hospital to close in Detroit Michigan?
Guy Otha Saulsberry
Who was known as the “Black Edison”?
Granville T. Woods
What Black American invented the railway telegraph?
Granville T. Woods
Who invented the incubator?
Granville T. Woods
What Black American invented the air brake?
Granville T. Woods
Known as the “Black Edison,” what famous inventor was responsible for developing the third rail used in modern subway systems?
Granville T. Woods
G.F. Grant received a patent in 1899 for what sports item?
Golf tee
Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut?
George Washington Carver
What famous scientist and biologist said, “God gave them to me, why should I claim to own them” with regard to his discoveries and inventions?
George Washington Carver
He was interested in plants at an early age and was an agriculturist who developed peanut products. Who was he?
George Washington Carver
In 1927, what Black American scientist and inventor received a patent for his process of producing paint?
George Washington Carver
Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way through school as a farm hand and a janitor to become an agricultural scientist whose discoveries revolutionized southern agriculture and helped the South move away from
dependence on the cotton industry?
George Washington Carver
Apollo 16 used an ultraviolet camera designed by what Black American?
George E.Carruthers
The Minnesota Territory had many black trappers. Which of the Bonga men founded a town in Minnesota in 1837?
George Bonga
Who invented the three way traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
Who invented the gas mask?
Garrett Morgan
What Black American was called in to assist a rescue effort for six workers trapped by a gas explosion using his patented smoke mask?
Garrett Morgan
What brothers returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to practice pharmacy and medicine after receiving advanced degrees from Howard University?
Garland and Phillip Brooks
Who invented the clothes dryer?
G.T. Sampson
Who invented the golf tee?
G.F. Grant
What is James Beckwourth recognized as?
Frontiersman
Who invented a ticket dispensing machine?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Who invented portable refrigeration?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Whose invention completely changed the way food could be transported?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Bessie Coleman was the first black female aviator in 1921. Because of racism in the United States, she was refused entry into aeronautics schools. She was trained and received her pilot's license in what country?
France
In 1854, to what country did Norbert Rillieux go when he could no longer tolerate the discrimination and prejudice he experienced in America?
France
What was particularly noteworthy about the first shuttle flight flown by Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr.?
First space shuttle
launch at night
Prejudice was a major factor of Elijah McCoy‟s inability to find a job as an engineer. What alternate occupation with the railroad did he eventually choose?
Fireman
What did Benjamin Banneker publish for farmers which became the first scientific book published by a Black American?
Farmers‟ Almanac
The cash register was invented by what Black American?
F.A. Hilyer
Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device?
Exhaust Purification System
Who is famous as the “Black Apollo of Science”?
Ernest Just
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first female black astronaut. What was the name of the space shuttle that took her and her crew members into space in 1992?
Endeavor
Who invented the bullet resistant Plexiglas?
Emanuel L.Logan
In 1870, Elijah McCoy started what company in
Detroit, Michigan?
Elijah McCoy
Manufacturing Company
What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most well known his inventions included the ironing table and the lubricating cup?
Elijah McCoy
The oil lubricating cup was invented by what Black American?
Elijah McCoy
A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings and skyscrapers?
Elevator
Granville T. Woods was best remembered for what type of inventions?
Electro-mechanical devices
What invention by Granville T. Woods helped farmers improve productivity?
Electrically Heated
Egg Incubator
Lewis Latimer was known as a pioneer in the development of what device?
Electric light bulb
Who was the first Black American to obtain a Phd. in Physics?
Edward Bouchet
In 1890, Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of what company?
Edison Electric Light
Company
Who developed the test used to detect the disease syphilis?
Dr. William Hinton
Who was the first Black American professor at
Harvard University?
Dr. William Hinton
