Black History

Question 1

Black underground railroad “conductor”

Answer 1

Harriet Tubman

Question 2

Founder of Ebony and Jet magazines

Answer 2

John Johnson

Question 3

University integrated in 1962

Answer 3

University of Alabama

Question 4

Black orator and former slave

Answer 4

Frederick Douglas

Question 5

First Black Surgeon General

Answer 5

Jocelyn Elders

Question 6

First Black starring role on television

Answer 6

Diahann Carroll (for Julia)

Question 7

Black 19th century educator; founder of Tuskegee institute

Answer 7

Booker T. Washington

Question 8

First Black singer for the Metropolitan Opera

Answer 8

Marian Anderson

Question 9

First Black US Poet Laureate

Answer 9

Maya Angelou

Question 10

Black preacher who led 1831 insurrection against slavery

Answer 10

Nat Turner

Question 11

First Black US Ambassador to United Nations

Answer 11

Andrew Young

Question 12

First Black in space

Answer 12

Leon Bluford Jr.

Question 13

Black Rainbow Coalition leader

Answer 13

Jesse Jackson

Question 14

First Black in the NBA

Answer 14

Nate “Sweetwater” Clifton

Question 15

First Black major league baseball player (19th century)

Answer 15

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Question 16

First Black awarded Nobel Peace prize

Answer 16

Ralph Bunche

Question 17

First Black mayor of Los Angeles

Answer 17

Tom Bradley

Question 18

First Black to win Pulitzer prize for literature

Answer 18

Alice Walker

Question 19

First Black Congresswoman

Answer 19

Shirley Chisholm

Question 20

“One O’clock Jump” band leader

Answer 20

Count Basie

Question 21

First Black to reach the North Pole

Answer 21

Matthew Henson

Question 22

Black founder of The American Dance Theater

Answer 22

Alvin Ailey

Question 23

First Black awarded Nobel Prize for literature

Answer 23

Toni Morrison

Question 24

Black Peanut cultivator

Answer 24

George Washington Carver

Question 25

First Black heavyweight boxing champion

Answer 25

Jack Johnson

Question 26

First Black major league baseball player (20th century)

Answer 26

Jackie Robinson

Question 27

Black Texas congresswoman 1972-78

Answer 27

Barbara Jordan

Question 28

Woman who inititated the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 28

Rosa Parks

Question 29

First Black Supreme Court Justice

Answer 29

Thurgood Marshall

Question 30

First Black American league baseball player (20th century)

Answer 30

Larry Doby

Question 31

First Black mayor of Detroit (five times)

Answer 31

Coleman Young

Question 32

First Black mayor of Atlanta

Answer 32

Maynard Jackson

Question 33

Black Soprano at Metropolitan Opera 1976-85

Answer 33

Leontyne Price

Question 34

Huey Newton and Bobby Seal's party - founded 1966

Answer 34

Black Panthers

Question 35

Black female preacher abolitionist and activist

Answer 35

Sojourner Truth

Question 36

First Black Miss America

Answer 36

Vanessa Williams

Question 37

First Black Coach in any professional sport

Answer 37

Bill Russell

Question 38

Black male tennis champion

Answer 38

Arthur Ashe

Question 39

Nation of Islam leader

Answer 39

Louis Farrakhan

Question 40

Black man killed at Boston Massacre

Answer 40

Crispus Attucks

Question 41

NAACP representative murdered in Mississippi - 1965

Answer 41

Medgar Evers

Question 42

First Black female mayor of Washington D.C.

Answer 42

Sharon Pratt Kelly

Question 43

O.J. Simpson's defense lawyer

Answer 43

Johnny Cochran

Question 44

Black Miss America - 1991

Answer 44

Debbye Turner

Question 45

First Black mayor of New York City

Answer 45

David Dinkins

Question 46

He coined the term "black power"

Answer 46

Adam Clayton Powell

Question 47

First Black to hold a patent (corn harvester)

Answer 47

Henry Blair

Question 48

First Black to win Pulitzer prize for poetry

Answer 48

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 49

Black female figure skater

Answer 49

Debi Thomas

Question 50

Black Panther leader and newspaper editor

Answer 50

Eldridge Cleaver

Question 51

First Black Major league baseball coach

Answer 51

Frank Robinson

Question 52

The Voice of Darth Vader

Answer 52

James Earl Jones

Question 53

First Black Grammy winner

Answer 53

Harry Belafonte

Question 54

First Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Answer 54

Colin Powell

Question 55

First Black flying squadron

Answer 55

Tuskegee Airmen (WWII)

Question 56

Prosecutor in O.J. Simpson trial

Answer 56

Christopher Darden

Question 57

First Black to win at Wimbledon

Answer 57

Althea Gibson

Question 58

First Black Woman in the Senate

Answer 58

Carol Mosely-Braun

Question 59

Medal awarded by NAACP

Answer 59

Spingarn Medal

Question 60

Former Urban League head and Clinton advisor

Answer 60

Vernon Jordan

Question 61

First Black masters golf champion

Answer 61

Tiger Woods

Question 62

City of the 1955 bus boycott

Answer 62

Montgomery

Question 63

Black CNN Washington anchor

Answer 63

Bernard Shaw

Question 64

George W. Bush's National Security Advisor

Answer 64

Condoleeza Rice

Question 65

First Black Academy Award winner

Answer 65

Hattie McDaniel

Question 66

First Black mayor of Chicago

Answer 66

Harold Washington

Question 67

First Black to enroll at the University of Mississippi

Answer 67

James Meredith

Question 68

First Black woman in space

Answer 68

Mae Jameson

Question 69

Black Nationalist leader assassinated - 1965

Answer 69

Malcolm X

Question 70

Fund founded at Tuskegee Institute - 1944

Answer 70

United Negro College Fund

Question 71

NAACP founder 1909

Answer 71

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 72

Black aid in developing blood banks

Answer 72

Charles Drew

Question 73

Black president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference after Martin Luther King

Answer 73

Ralph Abernathy

Question 74

First Black mayor of Cleveland

Answer 74

Carl Stokes

Question 75

The "Ambassador of Love"

Answer 75

Pearl Bailey

Question 76

First Black Female Grammy winner

Answer 76

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 77

Black playwright born in Harlem - 1924

Answer 77

James Baldwin

Question 78

Black Rat Pack member

Answer 78

Sammy Davis Jr.

Question 79

City high school integrated - 1956

Answer 79

Little Rock

Question 80

First Black All-American athlete

Answer 80

Paul Robeson