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Black History Trivia

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1. In what year was the VRA passed?






2. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff






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






4. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?






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






6. First black major league baseball player






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






8. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?






9. This singer holds the title of Most Top 10 Singles from an album for Thriller (1982) and the Most Number One Singles from an Album for Bad (1987)






10. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?






11. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?






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






13. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By






14. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?






15. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature






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






17. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?






18. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.






19. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?






20. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?






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






22. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____






23. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?






24. In what year was the NAACP founded?






25. First black RNC chairman






26. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?






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






28. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?






29. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?






30. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?






31. Father Of Gospel Music






32. First black Miss America






33. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?






34. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?






35. 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?






36. Queen Of Soul






37. First black RNC chairman






38. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?






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






40. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance






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






42. First black female to win a Grammy






43. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation






44. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance






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






46. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?






47. First black female to win a Grammy






48. First black NFL quarterback






49. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____






50. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance







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