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African Bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What name was given to the escape system used by slaves to find safety in the North? | The Underground Railroad |
| Who preformed the first open heart surgery? | Daniel Hale Williams |
| What war did the Tuskegee Airmen fly in? | World War II |
| Why did Carter Woodson choose February as the month to celebrate Negro History Week? | Because Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass, both important figures of U.S Black History, birthday's take place in February. |
| Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States? | The 13th |
| Which black mathematician was a surveyor who helped plan the District of Columbia? | Benjamin Banneker |
| What laws made segregation in the South legal? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta, GA? | Jr. Maynard Jackson |
| Who was the first black woman ever to serve in U.S. Congress? | Shirley Chisholm |
| What slave actually mailed himself to a free state in 3x2x2’8” box and became a free man in 1849? | Henry Box Brown |
| Who gave the speech, Ain’t I a Woman” at the National Women’s Suffrage Convention? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who was crippled as a child, but became the first African-American woman to win 3 gold medals in one Olympiad? | Wilma Rudolph |
| True or false? In the American Revolution, African-Americans fought only on the colonial side. | False. Black soldiers fought alongside the American and British. |
| What former slave and abolitionist published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper? | Frederick Douglass |
| What was the name of the group of students who rode on buses throughout the south to integrate transportation? | Freedom Riders |
| Crispus Attucks was the first black casualty of which war? | The American Revolution |
| In what year did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | 1863 |
| Who was the first African-American to make a flight in space? | Guion Bluford |