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Military & Politics
Brain Bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1967, Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor in what major mid-western city | Cleveland, Ohio |
| What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces | World War II |
| Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775 during the Revolutionary War | Lord Dunmore |
| Transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion after an incident in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian bus, who was one of the more notable members of the first United States Army armored unit made up of African American soldiers | Jackie Robinson |
| Who was responsible for securing equal rights for Black Troops during the Civil War | George T. Downing |
| On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone | Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. |
| Coleman Young and Thomas Bradley were elected mayors of which cities in 1973 | Young – Detroit (Michigan). Bradley – Los Angeles (California) |
| In 1991, Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to become mayor of what major city | Washington, D.C. |
| L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black American governor of what state in 1989 | Virginia |
| Who was the first Black American national security advisor | Colin Powell |
| Barack Hussein Obama, II, the first United States African American president was inaugurated in 2009 and served as which President | 44th |
| Who was appointed the US Attorney General in 2015 | Loretta E. Lynch |
| Operation PUSH was founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1971 to improve the economic status of African Americans in Chicago, Illinois. What does PUSH stand for | People United to Serve Humanity |
| What does CORE mean | Congress of Racial Equality |
| The MLK holiday was returned to Arizona in 1992. What was the name of the governor who rescinded the holiday in 1987 | Evan Mecham |
| While working on the USS Virginia who became the first American hero of WW II shooting down two-four Japanese aircraft before his ship finally sank | Dorie Miller |
| What U.S. President helped shift the black vote from Republican to Democrat because of his “New Deal” relief program | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Shirley Chisholm was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress in 1868, from which state was she elected | New York |
| Which amendment in the U.S. Constitution granted black Americans citizenship and | The 14th Amendment (July 28, 1868) equal protection under the law |
| Who was the first African American to serve as Secretary of State under the President of the United States | Colin Powell |
| Who was the president of the U.S. when Congress passed the Civil Rights act in 1964 | Linden B. Johnson |
| Who was the first African American female to serve as a U.S. Secretary of Energy | Hazel O. O’Leary |
| Before becoming the first black President of the United States, Barrack Obama was Senator of which state | Illinois |
| Who was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate | Barbara Jordan |
| Who was the first black nurse in the U.S. Army in 1945 | Nancy Leftenant |
| What team flew missions in World War II, and never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft | Tuskegee Airman |
| Who was the one and only female Buffalo Soldier, posing as a man to enlist in the 38th infantry in 1866 | Cathay Williams |
| What was the name of the first African American Navy diver | Carl Brasher |
| What major organization grew out of the national Negro committee conference of 1909 | NAACP |
| What was the term given to a system of racist and discriminatory laws that treated African Americans like second-class citizens | Jim Crowe |
| Which President instructed the Washington Redskins to hire black players or be evicted from their District of Columbia Stadium in an attempt to desegregate a professional sports team | JFK |
| What United States federal housing policy in the mid-twentieth century blocked black households and other communities of color from accessing home mortgages for decades | Redlining |
| Who was the first African American judge to serve on the US Supreme Court? | Thurgood Marshall |
| What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces | World War II |
| President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit, for fighting in what war | World War II |
| Who was the female, African American abolitionist who delivered a famous speech on racial inequalities entitled, “Ain’t I A Woman”, in 1851 | Sojourner Truth |
| In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became the last to admit blacks | U.S. Marine Corps |
| Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were known collectively as what | The Women’s Army Corps (or WAC) |
| Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general to serve in what branch of the U.S. Armed Forces | The U.S. Army |
| What was the largest black unit in the Korean War | The Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment |
| What black support unit drove supplies by truck to advancing American forces and also performed yeoman service during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 | The Red Ball Express |
| Dorie Miller, a mess man with the Navy, operated a machine gun without experience and shot down enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action | The Navy Cross |
| Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the 332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the ground while never losing a single bomber. What honor were they awarded for their service | The Distinguished Flying Cross |
| The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson’s administration to establish what officer’s training school for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa | The Colored Officers‟ Training Camp (or COTC) |
| What was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II | The 6888th Postal Unit |
| Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval officers were known as the what | The “Golden Thirteen” |
| William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his participation in which famous war | Spanish American War |
| Who was the first Black American admiral in the US Navy | Samuel L Gravely, Jr. |
| Who was the only accredited Black American war correspondent in World War I | Ralph Waldo Tyler |
| Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, was the first black general of the Air Force. He was instrumental in getting which president to end segregation in the armed forces | President Harry S. Truman |
| What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War | President Abraham Lincoln |
| Which black soldiers were with General George Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776 | Oliver Cromwell and Prince Whipple |
| Who were the first African American women Army officers stationed in Kentucky | Myrtle Anderson and Margaret Elizabeth Barnes Jones |
| Who became the first Black American to hold the rank of major during the Civil War | Martin Delany |
| What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer | Major Martin R. Delany |
| Who was the first African American First Lady of the United States | Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama |
| A West Point graduate and 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army, who became the first African American general post commander at Fort Knox in 1993 | Larry Jordan |
| What Black American sailor won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines | John Lawson |
| What year were blacks allowed to enlist in the Union Army | 1863 |
| Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to the U.S. Government | Henry Flipper |
| Who was the first Black American to attend the US Naval Academy | Henry Conyers |
| What US President ended segregation in the US Armed Forces by issuing an Executive Order | Harry S. Truman |
| Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army | Harriet Tubman |
| Who was the first black woman to graduate from Yale law school in 1931 | Jane Bolin |
| Who was the first Black American female doctor in the US Navy | Dr. Donna P. Davis |
| Who was the first Black American four-star general in US military history | Daniel James, Jr. |
| Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War | Crispus Attucks |
| In 1863, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks from the North and was led by which White abolitionist | Colonel Robert Gould Shaw |
| To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest-ranking military officer | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| As of 2022, what 2 states still continue to recognize MLK day in a combined holiday with Confederate general Robert E. Lee, effectively known as King-Lee Day | Alabama and Mississippi |
| Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas | Buffalo Soldiers |
| During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass served as an adviser to which US President | Abraham Lincoln |
| In what year did the U.S. Navy commission its first group of black officers | 1944 |
| How many Black Americans received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the | Civil War |
| Who is currently the highest-ranking African American government official in the United States | Kamala Harris |
| What was the first Black American female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court | Violette M. Anderson |
| John Mercer Langston was the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was he elected | US House of Representatives |
| Which former U.S. president is reported to have owned over 600 slaves | Thomas Jefferson |
| Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United (After initially being rejected by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slaver | The Thirteenth Amendment |
| Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the federal government and states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting | The Fifteenth Amendment |
| Who became New York City’s first black mayor on January 1, 1990 | David Dinkins |
| Who was the first Black American woman elected to a state legislature | Crystal Bird Fauset |
| Who was the first Black American female national security advisor | Condoleezza Rice |
| Who was the first Black American national security advisor | Colin Powell |
| Harold Washington became what city’s first Black mayor | Chicago |
| Who was the first Black American female senator to Congress | Carol E. Mosley Braun |
| In March 2003, who became the first African American female combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces | Vernice Armour |
| Who was the first African American attorney general of the United States from 2009-2015 | Eric Holder |
| Although no longer enforced, which state as of 2020 had laws on the books that forbade blacks and whites to use the same playgrounds, schools, mental hospitals or marry one another | Virginia |
| Brigadier General Fred A. Gordon was Commandant of Cadets at which U.S. Military Academy | West Point |
| Which U.S. Army Brigadier General became the first African American female to command a mostly all male battalion | Marcelite Jordon Harris |
| Who was the first African woman to reach the rank of admiral in the U.S. Navy | Lillian Elaine Fishbourne |
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