Question | Answer |
The founder BET, who became the first African American billionaire in 2001? | Robert "Bob" Johnson |
What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry? | Prince Hall |
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States? | Philadelphia Tribune |
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004 | Oprah Winfrey |
What was the name of the first Black American radio network? | National Negro Network |
Who was the first Black to anchor a national network television news program? | Max Robinson |
Who was the first Black American women bank president? | Maggie Lena Walker |
Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange? | Joseph L. Searles |
Established in 1945, What is the name of the world's largest black owned publishing company which owns Ebony and Jet magazines? | Johnson Publishing Company |
Who founded the Ebony magazine? | John H. Johnson |
Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869? | Issac Myers |
What did Madame C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door to door? | Hair Care Preparation Products |
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847? | Frederick Douglass |
What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on Washington? | Philip Randolph |
From what Atlanta college did Martin Luther King Jr. graduate? | Morehouse College |
Who was the first Black American female president of Spelman College? | Johnetta Cole |
Who was the first Black American to graduate from College? | John Russwurm |
What is Dr. Carter G. Woodson known? | Black History Month |
W.E.B. Dubois was the first Black American to receive a PH.D. from what prestigious university? | Harvard University |
What state has the most black institutions of higher learning? | Georgia |
Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americans in higher education in the United States? | Clark Atlanta University, Morris Brown College, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine |
Who was the President at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver? | Booker T. Washington |
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found? | Bethune-Cookman College |
Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia? | Benjamin E. Mays |
This is the first and only black college consortium, founded in 1929? Name it. | Atlanta University System |
In what state is Tuskegee Institute located? | Alabama |
In what year did the US Supreme Court order school integration? | 1954 |
Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine? | Billy Eckstine |
In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Black woman bank president? | 1903 |
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women? | Spelman College |
Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorf? | One of the first Black American Millionaires |
Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship? | Hugh Mulzac |
What famous educator and social reformer wrote Up from Slavery? | Booker T. Washington |
Did Carter G Woodson found--Jet Magazine or the Journal of Negro History? | The Journal of Negro History |
In 1958, what civil rights leader shared the Spingarn Medal with the Little Rock Nine? | Daisy Bates (advisor to students who integrated
Central High School in 1957) |
Name three meanings for the seven principles of Kwanzaa. | unity
• self-determination
• collective work and responsibility
• cooperative economics
• purpose
• creativity
• faith |