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30 questions across six themes honoring Black history.
A transformative era.
1Who delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington?
Answer Martin Luther King Jr.
2What 1955 event sparked by Rosa Parks is seen as the start of the Civil Rights Movement?
Answer The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
3Which organization did MLK Jr. found to advance civil rights through nonviolence?
Answer The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
4What 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional?
Answer Brown v. Board of Education.
5Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer Thurgood Marshall.
Culture and commentary.
6Who is the “Queen of Jazz” and the first African American woman to win a Grammy?
Answer Ella Fitzgerald.
7What accordion-driven genre from Louisiana is influenced by African American culture?
Answer Zydeco.
8Which 1920s cultural movement celebrated Black art, literature, and music in Harlem?
Answer The Harlem Renaissance.
9Who was the first Black woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Answer Aretha Franklin.
10What was the first hip-hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Answer Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Breaking barriers in sport.
11Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Answer Jackie Robinson.
12Which athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, defying Nazi ideology?
Answer Jesse Owens.
13Who became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion in 1908?
Answer Jack Johnson.
14Which tennis player was the first Black woman to win a Grand Slam title?
Answer Althea Gibson.
15Who was the first Black player to compete on the PGA Tour?
Answer Charlie Sifford.
Marks on history.
16Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, in 1968?
Answer Shirley Chisholm.
17Who founded the Tuskegee Institute, emphasizing vocational education?
Answer Booker T. Washington.
18Who wrote “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”?
Answer Frederick Douglass.
19Who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
Answer Condoleezza Rice.
20Who was the first African American billionaire?
Answer Robert L. Johnson.
The fight to end slavery.
21Who is known for her role in the Underground Railroad, helping many escape to freedom?
Answer Harriet Tubman.
22What famous July 4th speech did Frederick Douglass give criticizing slavery's hypocrisy?
Answer “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
23What was the name of the network that helped enslaved people escape north?
Answer The Underground Railroad.
24Which abolitionist published the anti-slavery newspaper “The North Star”?
Answer Frederick Douglass.
25What was the Emancipation Proclamation, and who signed it?
Answer A proclamation freeing enslaved people in Confederate states, signed by Abraham Lincoln.
Firsts across every field.
26Who was the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the U.S.?
Answer Marie Maynard Daly.
27Which aviator was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license?
Answer Bessie Coleman.
28Who was the first Black woman to own and operate a beauty school in the U.S.?
Answer Madam C.J. Walker.
29Who was the first Black woman to appear on the cover of Vogue?
Answer Beverly Johnson.
30Who became the first African American woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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