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Black History Trivia

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1. 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.






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






3. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight






4. Best known for his work with blood plasma - this man helped set up the American Red Cross blood bank and established the first blood bank in England?






5. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?






6. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance






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






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






9. In what year was the NAACP founded?






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






11. In what year was the NAACP founded?






12. First black star of a network TV show






13. First black president






14. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. First black female to win a Grammy






20. In what year was MLK assassinated?






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






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






23. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?






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






25. In what year was MLK assassinated?






26. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature






27. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?






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






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






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






31. Where Is Morgan University Located?






32. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?






33. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?






34. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.






35. In what year was the VRA passed?






36. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?






37. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?






38. 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)






39. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?






40. 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)






41. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?






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






43. In what year was the Million Man March?






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






45. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?






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






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






48. 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?






49. Queen Of Soul






50. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?