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Question 1

Who won back to back a women’s singles tennis titles at Wimbleton in 2000 and 2001

Answer 1

Venus Williams

Question 2

name the organization whose slogan is a mind is a terrible thing to waste

Answer 2

The United Negro College fund Uncf

Question 3

what was the name of the television network founded by Robert L Johnson

Answer 3

BET

Question 4

what was the document used to free slaves of the confederate states in rebellion against the union

Answer 4

The emancipation proclamation

Question 5

name two of the popular digests for African-Americans that were published in 1945 in 1951

Answer 5

Ebony in 1945 and jet in 1951

Question 6

on May 10, 1994 who was sworn in as the first black president of south Africa

Answer 6

Nelson Mandela

Question 7

what US president signed the executive order which ended racial discrimination in the Armed Forces

Answer 7

Harry Truman

Question 8

Solomon Brown was a scientist an artist. Did he become the first black chief clerk at the Guggenheim Museum or the Smithsonian institution?

Answer 8

Smithsonian

Question 9

what president appointed the first black Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Answer 9

Lyndon Johnson

Question 10

in what year did FDR sign in order prohibiting racial religious discrimination in federal agencies

Answer 10

1941

Question 11

what does FDR stand for

Answer 11

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 12

name the athlete who defied Hitler’s theory of black inferiority by winning for a gold medals in the Berlin Olympics

Answer 12

Jesse Owens

Question 13

Who is the owner of ultra sheen

Answer 13

George E Johnson

Question 14

what was the first black run business to be listed on the American Stock Exchange

Answer 14

ultra sheen

Question 15

what type of products does ultra sheen make?

Answer 15

hair care products

Question 16

what famous educator in social reformer wrote up from slavery and there is a school named after him in Norfolk VA

Answer 16

Booker T. Washington

Question 17

was the Civil War fought to free slaves or to preserve the union

Answer 17

to preserve the union

Question 18

name the black journalist who became famous as the principal Washington anchor for Cable News Network

Answer 18

Bernard Shaw

Question 19

Who was the first African-American to seeing a leading role with the metropolitan opera Company in New York

Answer 19

Marian Anderson

Question 20

in 1957 did the US Supreme Court decide that Dred Scott was a slave or a free man

Answer 20

A slave

Question 21

Who was the first black baseball player in the American League

Answer 21

Larry DOby

Question 22

in the year 2001 who became the first African-American US secretary of state

Answer 22

Colin Powell