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Black History Bowl L
Kindergarten - Second
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the first black-owned company to be traded on the NY Stock Exchange | BET Holdings |
| Who was the first Af Amer car manufacturer in 1916? | Frederick Douglass Patterson |
| What was the first all-black religious denomination in the US | the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) |
| Which European nationw as the first to stop trading African slaves to the US in 1794? | France |
| Who invented the shoe lasting machine | Jan Matzeliger |
| Who was the first black woman doctor educated in the US | Rebecca Lee-Crumpler |
| Who invented the traffic signal? | Garrett A Morgan |
| Who wrote the script for the 1975 hit, Cooley High? | Eric Monte |
| Denzel Washington played in what 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Charles Fuller? | A Soldier's Story |
| Who was the only other black actress to win the Academy Awards Best Supportin Actress Oscar since Hattie McDaniel in 1939? | Whoopi Goldberg |
| Who sang MLK favorite gospel song "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" after his funeral procession in 1968? | Mahalia Jackson |
| Who was the first african american mortgage banker? | James Del Rio |
| In 1990 the Mystery Writers of Amer nominated this novel, by Walter Moseley, as best of the year | Devil in a Blue Dress |
| by the 18th century, what colony was leader in the slave trade? | Rhode Island |
| IN what year did Harriet Tubman escape slavery? | 1849 |
| During the 19th century, how many states had laws prohibiting interracial marriage | 38 |
| Which state east of the Mississippi was the first to give AA women the right to vote in 1913? | Illinois |
| What magazine was created for black entrepreneurs | Black Enterprise |
| Who was the black soldier that helped George Wash cross the Deleware? | Oliver Cromwell |
| Who was the first black woman poet publsihed in America | Phillis Wheatley |
| What was Malcolm X given name when he was born? | Malcolm Little |