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Black History Trivia

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1. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .






2. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?






3. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'






4. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.






5. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?






6. First black RNC chairman






7. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?






8. First black star of a network TV show






9. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?






10. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .






11. Queen Of Soul






12. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of






13. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?






14. First black star of a network TV show






15. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'






16. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?






17. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance






18. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?






19. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?






20. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?






21. First black supreme court justice






22. In what year was the VRA passed?






23. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?






24. First black supreme court justice






25. First African American newspaper

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26. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.






27. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'






28. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'






29. First black Miss America






30. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.






31. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.






32. In what year was the Million Man March?






33. Father Of Gospel Music






34. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?






35. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?






36. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?






37. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?






38. First black president






39. First black major league baseball player






40. First black secretary of state






41. This member of the NY Yankees whose late-season heroics earned him the name 'Mr. October' hit three dramatic home runs in the last game of the World Series against the LA Dodgers at Yankee Stadium.






42. First black female to host a TV show






43. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'






44. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?






45. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period






46. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?






47. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property - that blacks were not citizens - and that the MI Compromise was unconstitutional?






48. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States






49. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff






50. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'







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