Black History

Question 1

First woman on postage stamp

Answer 1

Harriet Tubman

Question 2

First US Poet Laureat

Answer 2

Rita Dove

Question 3

First to win Pulitzer for poetry

Answer 3

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 4

First to win Pulitzer for lit

Answer 4

Alice Walker

Question 5

First awarded nobel for lit

Answer 5

Toni Morrison

Question 6

First awarded nobel peace prize

Answer 6

Ralph Bunche

Question 7

First singer at Met Opera

Answer 7

Marian Anderson

Question 8

First miss america

Answer 8

Vanessa Williams

Question 9

First grammy winner

Answer 9

Harry Belafonte

Question 10

First female grammy winner

Answer 10

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 11

First Academy Award (supporting actress)

Answer 11

Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)

Question 12

First Best supporting actor

Answer 12

Oscar Lou Gossett, Jr (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Question 13

First Best Actor Oscar

Answer 13

Sidney Poitier (lilies of the field)

Question 14

First Best Actress Oscar

Answer 14

Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball)

Question 15

First US ambassador to UN

Answer 15

Andrew Young

Question 16

First Supreme Court Justice

Answer 16

Thurgood Marshall

Question 17

First Surgeon General

Answer 17

Jocelyn Elders

Question 18

First Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Answer 18

Colin Powell

Question 19

First Congresswoman

Answer 19

Shirley Chisholm

Question 20

First Woman in Senate

Answer 20

Carol Mosley-Braun

Question 21

First to reach north pole

Answer 21

Matthew Henson

Question 22

First in space

Answer 22

Leon Bluflord, Jr

Question 23

First female in space

Answer 23

Mae Jemison

Question 24

First All-american athlete

Answer 24

Paul Robeson

Question 25

First Heavyweight boxing champ

Answer 25

Jack Johnson

Question 26

First masters golf champion

Answer 26

Tiger Woods

Question 27

First to win at wimbledon

Answer 27

Althea Gibson

Question 28

Major League Baseball Player (19th Century)

Answer 28

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Question 29

Major Leagu Baseball Player (20th Century)

Answer 29

Jackie Robinson

Question 30

American League baseball Player (20th Century)

Answer 30

Larry Doby

Question 31

First in the NBA

Answer 31

Nate "Sweetwater" Clifton

Question 32

First to hold a patent (corn harvester)

Answer 32

Henry Blair

Question 33

1st Mayor of Cleveland

Answer 33

Carl Stokes

Question 34

First Mayor of Chicago

Answer 34

Harold Washington

Question 35

First Mayor of NYC

Answer 35

David Dinkins

Question 36

First Mayor of LA

Answer 36

Tom Bradley

Question 37

First Mayor of Detroit (Five times)

Answer 37

Coleman young

Question 38

First female mayer of DC

Answer 38

Sharon Pratt Kelly

Question 39

First Mayor of Atlanta

Answer 39

Maynard Jackson

Question 40

First to enroll at the University of Mississippi

Answer 40

James Meredith

Question 41

First Flying Squadron

Answer 41

Tuskegee Airmen (WW2)

Question 42

Man Killed at Boston Massacre

Answer 42

Crispus Attucks

Question 43

Female Preacher, Abolitionist and Activist

Answer 43

Sojourner Truth

Question 44

19th Century Orator and Former Slave

Answer 44

Frederick Douglass

Question 45

Preacher who led 1831 Slavery Insurrection

Answer 45

Nat Turner

Question 46

Underground Railroad "Conductor"

Answer 46

Harriet Tubman

Question 47

Male Tennis Champio

Answer 47

Arthur Ashe

Question 48

The "Ambassador of Love"

Answer 48

Pearl Bailey

Question 49

Playwright Born in Harlem, 1924

Answer 49

James Baldwin

Question 50

"One O'clock Jump" Band Leader

Answer 50

Count Basie

Question 51

Founder and Ebony and Jet magazines

Answer 51

John Johnson

Question 52

Former Urban League Head and Clinton Advisor

Answer 52

Vernon Jordan

Question 53

Founder of Tuskegee Institute

Answer 53

Booker T. Washington

Question 54

Peanut Cultivator

Answer 54

George Washington Carver

Question 55

Aided in Developing Blood Banks

Answer 55

Charles Drew

Question 56

The Voice of Darth Vader

Answer 56

James Earl Jones

Question 57

Rat Pack Member

Answer 57

Sammy Davis, Dr

Question 58

Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus

Answer 58

Marcia Fudge

Question 59

Rainbow Coalition Leader

Answer 59

Jesse Jackson

Question 60

OJ Simpson's Defense Lawyer

Answer 60

Johnny Cochran

Question 61

Prosecutor in OJ Simpson Trial

Answer 61

Christopher Darden

Question 62

CNN Washington Anchor

Answer 62

Bernard Shaw

Question 63

Founder of the American Dance Theater

Answer 63

Alvin Ailey

Question 64

NAACP Founder

Answer 64

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 65

NAACP rep murdered in Mississippi

Answer 65

Medgar Evers

Question 66

Medal Awarded by NAACP

Answer 66

Spingarn Medal

Question 67

Fund Founded at Tuskege institute, 1944

Answer 67

United Negro College Fund

Question 68

Nationalist Leader assassinated in 1965

Answer 68

Malcolm X

Question 69

Nation of Islam leader

Answer 69

Louis Farrakhan

Question 70

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale's Party

Answer 70

Black Panthers

Question 71

Black Panther Leader and Newspaper Editor

Answer 71

Eldridge Cleaver

Question 72

He coined the term "Black power"

Answer 72

Adam Clayton Powell

Question 73

City of the 1955 Bus Boycott

Answer 73

Montgomery

Question 74

Montgomery Bus Boycott Initiator

Answer 74

Rosa Parks

Question 75

GW Bush National Security Advisor

Answer 75

Condelezza Rice

Question 76

City High School Integrated, 1956

Answer 76

Little Rock

Question 77

University Integrated in 1962

Answer 77

University of Alabama