Black History Bee Flashcards
Who wrote, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?
Zora Neal Hurtson
Who is the author of the first published novel, Clothel, by a Black American in 1833?
Williams Wells Brown
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903
W.E.B Dubios
Who was the first Black American chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels
Toni Morrision
What New York library houses rare collections of Black Culture?
The Schomburg Center
What Harlem theater is a showcase for Black Culture?
The Apollo
What author promoted her first novel, Mama, by contacting colleges and universities?
Terry Wiliams
Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Renaissance arts director Augustus Savage was what type of artist?
Sculptor
Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin
What musical instrument did jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. play?
Saxophone
What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
Marian Anderson
Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry
Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working at what popular magazine?
Life
Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?
Leotyne Price
What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African Royalty?
Kente Cloth
What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?
Jazz
The first work authorized by a black female former slave was a book written by Harriett A. Jacobs in 1861. What was the name of this book?
Incident 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 wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Steve
What terms generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920” and early 1930’s?
Harlem Renaissance
Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Who was the first Black performer to receive a Tony Award?
Hattie McDaniel
Who was the first Black woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer
Florence Prince
What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planet’s Peanuts?
Elmer Stoner
She is a dance choreographer, director, and producer who was involved with the television show Fame.
Debbie Allen
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the US?
Philadelphia Tribune Allen
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
Who published the first Black American women’s in the US?
Josephine Ruffin
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?
Ebony
\What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks?
Black Star Line
Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue Magzine?
Beverly Jones
What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Cars Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March in Washington?
A. Philip Randolph
Who was the first Black American woman to have her one weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
What organization helps fund over forty Black American Colleges
United Negro College Fund
What is the name of the institute that was founded b Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskee Inistitute
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America’s oldest historically black college for women?
Spelman College
Who was the first Black American to receive a degree from Harvard University?
Richard Greener
Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University
Patrick Healy
Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore Maryland in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. What school is this today?
Morgan State University
Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, see he had to be escorted to class by US Marshalls?
James Merdith
Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine at what famous Black college in Washington?
Howard University
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune find?
Bethune-Cookman College
What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You”, “The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”?
Whitney Houston
What film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for best actor?
Training Day
Which of Micheal Jackson’s albums is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling album of all time
Thriller
What is the name of the group that wrote the first rap song (Rapper’s Delight) to achieve commercial success in 1979?
The Sugar Hill Game
Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White House?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, he recorded the 1957 hit You Send Me.
Sam Cooke
Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizzell made up a famous 80’s rap group. What was the name of the group?
Run DMC
She is known as the “queen of hip-hop soul”.
Mary J. Blige
This trumpet player was a vocalist who was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What is his name?
Louis Armstrong
James Tod Smith is the given name of what Rap/actor?
LL Cool J
Billie Holiday’s life was subjected of what famous film?
Lady Sings the Blues
Who was the first Black American woman to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
What famous musician’s trademark was puffing cheeks and a trumpet bell that pointed skywards?
Dizzy Gillespie
Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”?
Dinah Washington
Who is the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet who sold over 4 million copies of their album, Cooley High Harmony?
Boyz ll Men
B.B. King is famous for what kind of music?
Blues
Noted as the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what artist is known as the “empress of the blues”?
Bessie Smith
Who is known as the “queen of soul”?
Aretha Franklin
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded y Federick Douglass?
The North Star
In 1960, what did four black American students do at a whites-only lunch counter to protest against discrimination?
Staged a “sit-in”
What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?
Spinx
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
National Associations of the Advancement of Colored People
After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was he?
Malcolm X
Who lost her teaching job as a result of a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked as “White-Only”?
Ida B Wells
Who were the founders of the Black Pantehr’s Part?
Huey P Newton and Bobby Seals
What New York City neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”?
Harlem
In 1961, groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips to protest segregated bus terminals. y what name was this group known?
Freedom Rivers
Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen in what country?
Egypt
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first church?
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Known as the “Father of Negro History” and created black history month.
Carter G Woodson
Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp?
Booker T Washington
Who was the first black American awarded a Rhode’s Scholarship in 1940?
Alin Leroy Locke
During the Civil War, this black pilot sailed a Conferredate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina, and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862
Robert Smalls
The first African American to die in World War ll during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines.
Robert H Brooks
Who became the first Black American to hold of major during the Civil War?
Martin Delany
Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later become an advisor to the U.S. Government?
Henry Flipper
As well as freeing slaves, she served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army.
Harriet Tubman
The first Black Americans to attend the US Naval Academy
Henry Conyers
In 1770, this fugitive slave was the first to die in the Boston Massacre and was called the first mayor of the American Revolution.
Crispis Attucks
Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiment in the regular U.S. Army, these soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Buffalo Soldiers
Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
In 1972, who became the first woman to candidate for president of the United States?
Shirley Chisholm
In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, becoming the first Black American woman Mayer of a major US city?
Sharon Pratt Kelly
The celebration observed June 19th to honor the emancipation of African American slaves in the United States is caled?
Juneteenth
In 2009, he became the first African American U.S. Attorney General and head of the Justice Department
Eric Holder Jr.
Who was the first Back American national security advisor
Colin Powell
What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?
Black Panthers
The first black female Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice
What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy?
Wendell Belfield
These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War ll. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?
Tuskegee Airmen
He invented the carbon fiber filament for the incandescent lightbulb, making electric lightning more piratical and affordable for the average household.
Lewis Lattimer
He created the thermostat
Frederick Jones
Lewis Lattimer prepared the drawings for his invention that ended up getting patented by Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone
Who invented the common dust mop
T.W. Steward
In 1872, this inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horse form carriages
T.J.Boyd
This scientist used sweet potatoes to develop postage stamp glue
George Washington Carver
He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the united States
St. Elmo Brady
Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan. E. Marzeliger invented what?
Shoe lasting machine
The ironing board was invented by what Black American woman?
Sarah Boone
Who invented the automatic car washer and directional signals for the automobile?
Richard Spikes
Who patented the envelope seal in 1897?
R. W. Leslie
Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?
Potato Chip
Who invented the disposable syringe?
Phil Brooks
What breakthrough was preformed by Dr.Daniel Hale Williams
Open Heart Surgery
Matthew Henson was the first expectation to reach what destination?
North Pole
Who is responsible for inventing the method for converting gas into electricity?
Meredith Guordine
Who invented the burglar alarm?
Louis Alexander
Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly to space?
Gulon Bluford, Jr.
Who designed and patented the dustpan?
L.P Ray
Who invented the folding bed?
L.C. Bailey
Who invented the bread crumbling machine and constructed by what Black American?
Joseph Lee
The Holland Tunnel in New York was designed and constructed by what Black American?
Joseph Parker
Who mad the first practical shoe-making machine?
Jan Matzelinger
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
Who invented the smallpox vaccine?
Dr. Louis Wright
She is a viral immunologist at the forefront of creating the Covid-19 vaccine
Dr. Kizzemia Corbett
Who invented the clothes dryer?
G.T Sampson
He invented the gas mask for firefighters and the stop light
Garrett Morgan
What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most well know of his inventions included the ironing tale, and the lubricating cup.
Elijah McCoey
A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings or skyscrapers?
Elevator
Who trained in France and received her pilot’s license in 1921, making her the first Black Woman to fly a plane?
Bessie Coleman
Who built the first model of steam power engine, but was unable to patent his work because he was a slave?
Benjamin Bradley
ho invented a life=saving device for coupling railroad cars?
Andrew J Beard
Who invented the door lock?
A.W. Johnson
Who invented the railroad signal
A.B. Blackburn
These sisters were born in 1980 and 1981. They are champions if Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments. Name Them
Venus and Serena Williams
Who was the first lack African to play in the play in the National Hockey League?
Val James
Julius played basketball in the NBA in 1976 until he retire. For what NBA team did he plays
Philadelphia 76ers
What professional spot did Lee Elder play?
Golf
She is the first woman and woman of color to be the Vice President of the United States of America.
Kamala Harris
She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S history
Amdanda Gorman
He is Georgia’s first black senator.
Rapheal Warnock
MSNBC President and first Black executive to run a major television news network
Rashida Jones
Princeton University’s first black valedictorian
Nicholas Johnson
She is the first black woman CEO in the NBA
Cynthia Marshall
Former track star who became and Olympic bobsledder and the first African American to win a gold medal at an olympic event for bobsledding
Vonetta Flowers
He is the first Black astronaut to live in the International Space Station for an extended stay
Victor Glover
This 13 year old launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks in November 2015, an international movement to collect and donate children’s that features as the lead characters.
Marley Dias
his former state represent has founded and organization dedicated ti fighting voter suppression. She also ran for Governor of the State of Georgia.
Stacey Arbrams
She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Naomi Osaka
This comedian is a native Philadelphian and she is the creator and star to the television show, Abbott Elementary.
Quinta Brunson
She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion who is also the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015.
Naomi Osaka
The most decorated American gymnast and the third decorated gymnast in the world.
Simone Biles
highest earning Black musician in history.
Beyonce Knowles
