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