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Black Legislators
You Gotta Know These Black American Legislators
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1870–1871) who was the first person with Black and Native American ancestry to serve in Congress | Hiram Revels |
| The state where Hiram Revels was born free | North Carolina |
| The constitutional amendment Democrats cited when objecting to seating Revels (claiming he hadn't been a citizen long enough) | 14th Amendment |
| The action Revels successfully argued Georgia must take before readmission to the Union | Allow Black persons to serve in its state legislature |
| The historically Black university where Revels served as the first president | Alcorn State University |
| The first Black governor in U.S. history (served briefly as acting governor of Louisiana) | P. B. S. Pinchback |
| The man Pinchback replaced as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana upon his death in office | Oscar Dunn |
| The governor Pinchback replaced, becoming acting governor when this governor was impeached | Henry Clay Warmoth |
| The Supreme Court case that arose from the efforts of the Comité des Citoyens, a group Pinchback was active in after politics | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| The first Black state attorney general and first popularly-elected Black U.S. senator (from Massachusetts) | Edward Brooke III |
| The piece of landmark civil rights legislation Brooke co-authored with Walter Mondale | Fair Housing Act of 1968 |
| The first Senate Republican to call for Richard Nixon’s resignation during the Watergate scandal | Edward Brooke III |
| The controversial way Brooke grouped "extremists" like Lester Maddox and Stokely Carmichael in a speech | Extremists of White Power and Black Power |
| The first Black woman elected to Congress, representing part of Brooklyn | Shirley Chisholm |
| The slogan and autobiography title used by Shirley Chisholm | Unbought and Unbossed |
| The two congressional caucuses Chisholm helped found | Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Women’s Caucus |
| The year Chisholm became the first Black and first woman candidate for a major party presidential nomination (Democrat) | 1972 |
| The segregationist candidate Chisholm visited in the hospital after he was shot during her presidential campaign | George Wallace |
| A U.S. representative from Georgia and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who was a key SCLC leader | Andrew Young Jr. |
| The role Andrew Young held at the SCLC when Martin Luther King Jr. was president | Executive director |
| The group Andrew Young met with during his U.N. ambassadorship that led to controversy and his resignation | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
| The major event Young co-chaired while serving as mayor of Atlanta | 1996 Summer Olympic Games |
| A long-serving representative from Georgia known as a leader of the civil rights movement | John Lewis |
| The student organization Lewis chaired (acronym) | SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) |
| The event where Lewis was one of the "Big Six" organizers | 1963 March on Washington |
| The location where Lewis had his skull fractured by Alabama State Troopers during a voting rights march | Edmund Pettus Bridge (in Selma) |
| The type of protest Lewis led in the House chamber in 2016 to demand action on gun control | Sit-in protest |
| The first Black woman and first Black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate (from Illinois) | Carol Moseley Braun |
| The U.S. senator who successfully challenged the policy banning women from wearing pants on the Senate floor | Carol Moseley Braun |
| The Nigerian dictator whose actions Moseley Braun controversially defended | Sani Abacha |
| U.S. Senator from Illinois who became the 44th U.S. President | Barack Obama |
| The title of Obama's 2004 DNC keynote address (also his second book title) | The Audacity of Hope |
| Signature legislation passed during the Obama administration dealing with healthcare and financial regulation (acronyms accepted) | Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Dodd-Frank Act |
| The agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act to protect consumers | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) |
| The first Black person, first Asian-American person, and first woman to serve as U.S. Vice President | Kamala Harris |
| The policy Harris continued from her predecessor (Jerry Brown) while CA Attorney General, refusing to defend the state ban on gay marriage | Proposition 8 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court case connected to the wedding Harris officiated for Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier | Hollingsworth v. Perry |
| The countries of origin for Harris's father and mother | Jamaica (father) and India (mother) |
| Current U.S. Senator from New Jersey whose first mayoral campaign was chronicled in the documentary Street Fight | Cory Booker |
| The social media CEO who donated $100 million to Newark's schools while Booker was mayor | Mark Zuckerberg |
| The criminal justice reform bill from 2018 that Booker supported as a Senator | First Step Act |
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