Black History Month Trivia!

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Black History Month Trivia Challenge

Test your knowledge of significant events, individuals, and milestones in Black history! This trivia quiz will challenge your understanding and educate you about the contributions of Black figures in history.

Join us in celebrating Black history with questions about:

Cultural achievements
Major historical events
Influential personalities

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Mary Ann Shadd Carey was the first Black Canadian woman to...

Go to space

Become a publisher

Open a gym

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Name the movie that tells the story of Katherine Johnson along with Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson achievements at NASA

Apollo 13

Gravity

Hidden Figures

First Man

Where was the first "sit-in protest" at a segregated lunch counter?

W.T. Grant in Atlanta, Georgia

A & P in Jackson, Mississippi

Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina

Walgreen's in Birmingham, Alabama

Mary Van Brittan Brown helped to invent the...

Refrigerated Food Truck

Ironing Board

Three Light Traffic Light

Home Security System

Where was Black Wall Street located?

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Rosewood, Florida

Slocom, Texas

Seneca Village, New York

Who was the first Black author to win the Pulitzer in 1950 for the novel Annie Allen?

Toni Morrison

James Baldwin

Zora Neale Hurston

Gwendolyn Brooks

Who was the first Black athlete to play Major League Baseball?

Ernie Banks

Willie Mays

Jackie Robinson

Monte Irvin

Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award®?

Ethel Waters

Lena Horne

Hattie McDaniel

Dorothy Dandridge

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Nelson Mandela

Ralph Bunche

Desmond Tutu

Wangari Maathai

What organization formed Feb. 12, 1909?

National Black Women's Justice Institue

National Black Chamber of Commerce

The National African American Leadership Summit

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Which famous jazz band leader was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

King Oliver

Benny Goodman

Who was the first female self-made millionaire in the United States?

Diana Ross

Madam C. J. Walker

Annie Malone

Dorothy Height

Maya Angelou recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning at the inauguration of what president?

Barack Obama

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

George H.W. Bush

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