Education

Question 1

What four-year college was the first to establish a black studies department?

Answer 1

San Francisco State University

Question 2

What groundbreaking Supreme Court case upheld the affirmative action policy, ruling that race can be one of the many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students?

Answer 2

Grutter v. Bollinger

Question 3

What was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional?

Answer 3

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 4

Who was the first black person to attend an American College or University on record?

Answer 4

John Chavis

Question 5

Who was the first African American to receive a medical degree?

Answer 5

James McCune

Question 6

Who was the first black college president?

Answer 6

Martin Henry Freeman- Avery College

Question 7

Who was the first African American of an Ivy League University?

Answer 7

Ruth Simmons- Brown University

Question 8

Who was the first African American to win the Nobel peace prize for literature?

Answer 8

Toni Morrison

Question 9

Who was Harvard’s first black law professor?

Answer 9

Derrick Bell

Question 10

Who was the first African American to earn a PHD in astronomy?

Answer 10

Harvey Washington Banks- Georgetown University

Question 11

Who was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy?

Answer 11

Ernie Davis- Syracuse University

Question 12

Who was the nation’s first African American woman judge?

Answer 12

Jane Matilda Bolin

Question 13

What was the first sorority for African American college women?

Answer 13

Alpha Kappa Alpha- Howard University

Question 14

What was the first fraternity for African American college men?

Answer 14

Alpha Phi Alpha- Cornell University

Question 15

Who was the nations first black psychiatrist?

Answer 15

Solomon Carter Fuller- Boston University School of Medicine

Question 16

Who was the first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard?

Answer 16

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 17

What was the first school to have a medical department for African Americans?

Answer 17

Howard University

Question 18

In what 1883 Supreme Court Case did the Court refuse to permit Congress to criminalize acts of the terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 18

US. v. Harris

Question 19

On March 16, 1995, what amendment did the Mississippi Legislation ratifying after rejecting it more than 100 years before?

Answer 19

13th Amendment

Question 20

On May 19, 1994, what county and state did the US Department of Justice file suit against a principle for refusing to permit an interracial prom and interracial dating in a public high school?

Answer 20

Randolf County, Alabama

Question 21

On May 12, 2010, what city barred Mexican American Studies after the state’s governor signed a bill barring all ethnic studies courses?

Answer 21

Tucson, Arizona

Question 22

On June 1, 1921, where did a white riot kill 300 people and burn a prosperous Black community over the course of 2 days?

Answer 22

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Question 23

On June 10, 1954, in what city and state did Southern governors convene, vowing to defy the US Supreme Court’s Decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 23

Richmond, Virginia

Question 24

In 2001, what results did Harvard University’s Civil Rights Project release about segregated schools in 2000 as compared to school in the 1970s?

Answer 24

Schools more segregated in 2000 than in 1970

Question 25

What school did state funds help white students enroll in after Tuskegee, Alabama’s schools were integrated? This school remains 98% White to this day.

Answer 25

Macon Academy

Question 26

Why did Harvard University President, Albert Lowell, defend banning black students from residence halls and dining rooms in 1922?

Answer 26

“We do not owe to them inclusion into a social system with white people.”

Question 27

In 2007, in what city and state did Turner County High School hold its first racially integrated prom?

Answer 27

Ashburn, Georgia

Question 28

In 2010, what percentage of the Black Population 25 years and older attended for or more years of college?

Answer 28

19.8%

Question 29

What man educated himself and became a famous orator after gaining his freedom from slavery in the 1800s.

Answer 29

Frederick Douglass

Question 30

Who was the United State’s first African American Grad Student in Mathematics?

Answer 30

Kelly Miller

Question 31

Who is the country’s first female, African-American Principal?

Answer 31

Fanny Jackson Coppin

Question 32

He was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in America. He was also the first to become a Jesuit priest and preside over a white college.

Answer 32

Patrick Francis Healy

Question 33

He was the first African-American to graduate from West Point in 1877 and become a commissioned officer.

Answer 33

Henry Ossian Flipper

Question 34

Who is first African-American to receive a bachelor’s degree in America, in 1836; also became the first black man elected to public office.

Answer 34

Alexander Twilight

Question 35

This African American professor became the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizers for two successive biographies after releasing his research on W.E.B Dubois.

Answer 35

David Levering Lewis

Question 36

This internationally recognized cell biologist helped co-found Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and created what is known today as Black History Month.

Answer 36

Ernest Everett Just

Question 37

What African-American geneticist has discovered ways to help prevent prostate cancer in Black men?

Answer 37

Rick Kittles

Question 38

In his famous almanac, what Black man proposed that the government “establish and maintain free schools in every city” 100 years before the Department of Education was
created?

Answer 38

Benjamin Banneker

Question 39

What female pioneer founded a school for African-Americans in Florida and served on President Roosevelt’s cabinet as an advisor?

Answer 39

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 40

This gentleman wrote the first literary expression for Black’s right to freedom in a time where laws banned speech that could incite slave revolts.

Answer 40

Armand Lanusse

Question 41

In 1872, this lady graduated from Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., becoming the first African-American woman to graduate law school

Answer 41

Charlotte Ray

Question 42

In 1955, where did Martin Luther King Jr., a graduate of Morehouse College, earn his Ph.D. in theology?

Answer 42

Boston University

Question 43

In 1990, who took an extended leave of absence, never returning to Harvard Law School to protest the school’s lack of a black woman faculty members?

Answer 43

Derrick Bell

Question 44

In 1994, what scholarship program at the University of Maryland was ruled unconstitutional because the state sponsored program was limited to black students?

Answer 44

Benjamin Banneker Scholarship Program

Question 45

What regent of the University of California, pushed through a ban abolishing all racial preferences in admissions to the university. The ban took effect for graduate programs in 1997 and for undergraduates in 1998

Answer 45

Ward Connerly

Question 46

In 2004, this president of Brown University established a committee to investigate Brown’s former ties to slavery and determine if it needs to make reparations.

Answer 46

Ruth Simmons

Question 47

In what case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in a 5-4 decision that school districts in Seattle and Louisville could not use the factor of race to assign students to public schools?

Answer 47

Parents Involved in Community School v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al.

Question 48

What is the disparity reported by the U.S. Census Bureau about African Americans housed in prisons compared to those who live in college dormitories. The study found that in 2006 there were 846,735 African Americans incarcerated in adult correctional facilities in the United States. But there were only 270,018 African Americans who lived in college dormitories.

Answer 48

There are three times as many in prison than in dormitories