AFQB Flashcards
This Howard Unviersity graduate and jazz drummer is the first large-scale commercial African-American instrument manufacturer. What is his name and and what does he make?
Warren Shadd; pianos & keyboards
“Freedom Summer” was a campaign in the South to register Black people to do what during the summer of 1964?
Vote
This prominent black American was a civil-rights activist and lawyer, a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X.
Percy Ellis Sutton
In 2001 she became the first black president of an Ivy League institution.
Ruth Simmons
This man was a free black educator and Presbyterian minister who, in 1808, established a private school that was described as one of the best in the state and attended by both white and black students. Raleigh’s Chavis Park is named in his honor.
John Chavis
Charles Lewis Reason (1818 - 1893) became the first African-American university professor at a predominantly white college, teaching at New York Central College. What subject did he begin teaching at the age of fourteen?
Mathematics
In 1883 in New Bern, North Carolina, Samuel J Battle weighed in at 16 pounds and became the largest baby ever born in this state. What other distinction does he hold?
First African Amerian police officer in New York City
On November 8, 2016, she became the second black woman selected to serve in the United States Senate.
Kamala Harris
Name the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan Southern city, and name the city he served in that role from 1973 to 1975.
Clarence Lightner, Raleigh
Who was the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970 despite also having an amputated left leg?
Carl Maxie Brashear
What is the name given to the all-Black regiments of the U.S. Army started in 1866, whose members have received more Medals of Honor than any other US military unit?
Buffalo Soldiers
Columbia, SC native Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. was the NASA Administrator from 2009 until January 2017. What are two other titles he has held?
United States Marine Corps Major General & former NASA astronaut
Jack Johnson was an inventor who patented a wrench in 1922. What other distinction does he hold?
First African American heavyweight boxing champion
In 1983, he became the first Black astronaut to travel in space.
Guion Bluford
By the 1920s, St. Agnes hospital was the largest hospital for blacks between Atlanta and Washington. On which college campus is it located?
St Augustine’s University
George Washington Carver was one of the most prominent scientists and inventors of his time. He devised over 100 products - including dyes, plastics and gasoline, from which major crop?
peanuts
Who is the portrait painter known for their highly naturalistic paintings of people with brown skin in heroic poses?
Kehinde Wiley
She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have yet to be seriously challenged.
Florence Griffith Joyner
He was the only professional boxer to hold world championship titles in three weight divisions simultaneously. In 2007, The Ring magazine ranked him as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years.
Henry Armstrong
Name the African American jockey who rode in and won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, and name his horse.
Oliver Lewis; Aristides
In 2015 she became the world’s first high school woman to break the 11-second barrier in the 100 meters sprint. What is her name and in what state does she attend high school?
Candace Hill, Georgia
Name the first African-American inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Emlen Tunnell
From your study materials, name one of the largest African American-owned money management and mutual fund companies in the US, and its female president.
Ariel Investments; Mellody Hobson
This Philadephia native and Penn State University graduate was the chairman and CEO of Merck & Co from 2011 to 2021. He was the second African American to lead a major pharmaceutical company.
Kenneth Carleton Frazier
Who is the American entrepreneur, producer and author who cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris, and had a net-worth estimate of $340 million in 2011?
Russell Simmons
Asa Philip Randolph founded the first union consisting of predominantly black workers, called what?
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Name the Pullman porter union organizer who helped plan what would have been the first march on Washington in 1940 - but it never occurred because President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the defense industry to hire minority workers.
Cottrell Lawrence Dellums
What event was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in US history and is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
March on Washington
Who is nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America?
Rosa Parks
To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
Malcolm X
This prominent intellectual graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has also made three spoken word albums, including collaborations with Prince and Jill Scott.
Cornel West
This innovative African-American educator served on education commissions for three U.S. presidents, and was the first to analyze and publish the experiences of female African Americans in college.
Jeanne Laveta Noble
What American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist was known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to gain better lives for African Americans?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Who was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point and when did he graduate?
Henry Ossian Flipper; 1877
In February 2013, she was sworn in as Raleigh’s police chief, becoming the first black woman to hold the post of top cop in the city.
Cassandra Deck-Brown
Leah Ward Sears was the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. In what year and in what state was she appointed?
1992; Georgia
Who was the first African-American to hold a state-wide elected executive office in North Carolina?
Ralph Campbell
To whom do we credit this quote: “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member
Who once said: “You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people”?
Dr Cornel West
Valerie L. Thomas is an African-American scientist and inventor. She invented the Illusion Transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. Which government agency still uses this device today?
NASA
Name the African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career he had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.
Lloyd Augustus Hall
This physicist, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015, received a bachelor’s degree with honors while earning eight varsity letters in basketball and football, and earned a Master of Science in Nuclear Physics in 1963 from Howard University, after only nine months of study.
George Edward Alcorn, Jr.
This star athlete who won a silver medal in the long jump in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, was also a physicist and engineer with dozens of patents dealing with gas dispersion and conversion.
Meredith Gourdine
In the summer of 1959, he refused to leave a segregated Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. The library is now named after this American physicist and NASA astronaut.
Ronald Erwin McNair
Which American biologist achieved renown in the 1990s for his pioneering work in tracing the ancestry of African Americans via DNA testing?
Rick Antonius Kittles
Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of only 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012, is an American medical physicist known for her development of a novel cancer treatment using laser-activated _____________?
nanoparticles
