Black History Month Trivia Question and Answers
1.
Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize in literature?
Answer:
Toni Morrison
2.
Which civil rights leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
3.
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
Answer:
Thurgood Marshall
4.
What year was the first Black History Month celebrated?
Answer:
1976
5.
Who was known as the "Queen of the Underground Railroad"?
Answer:
Harriet Tubman
6.
What is the name of the African American cultural movement that took place in the 1920s?
Answer:
The Harlem Renaissance
7.
Who authored the book "The Souls of Black Folk"?
Answer:
W.E.B. Du Bois
8.
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Answer:
Hattie McDaniel
9.
What landmark legislation outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?
Answer:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
10.
Who was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
Answer:
Richard Theodore Greener
11.
Which prominent abolitionist published "The North Star," an anti-slavery newspaper?
Answer:
Frederick Douglass
12.
Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?
Answer:
Shirley Chisholm
13.
Which famous African American artist sculpted The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles?
Answer:
Henry B. Gonzalez
14.
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Answer:
Jackie Robinson
15.
What influential book did Malcolm X co-author?
Answer:
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
16.
Who was the first African American to hold the title of "Miss America"?
Answer:
Vanessa Williams
17.
Which movement did the Black Panther Party originate from?
Answer:
The Civil Rights Movement
18.
Where did Rosa Parks famously refuse to give up her bus seat?
Answer:
Montgomery, Alabama
19.
What was the name of the case that desegregated public schools in the United States?
Answer:
Brown v. Board of Education
20.
Who was the first African American woman to receive a pilot's license?
Answer:
Bessie Coleman
21.
Who was the prominent African American educator and advisor to Presidents who advocated for vocational education?
Answer:
Booker T. Washington
22.
What event is often cited as the starting point of the Civil Rights Movement?
Answer:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
23.
Which musician was a key figure in the development of jazz music during the Harlem Renaissance?
Answer:
Duke Ellington
24.
Who wrote the famous poem "Still I Rise"?
Answer:
Maya Angelou
25.
Which act passed in 1870 aimed to grant African American men the right to vote?
Answer:
The 15th Amendment
26.
Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?
Answer:
Dr. Mae Jemison
27.
Which African American scientist is known for his work with peanuts and crop rotation?
Answer:
George Washington Carver
28.
Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Answer:
W.E.B. Du Bois and others
29.
In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer:
1964
30.
Which African American woman served as the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 2009 to 2011?
Answer:
Derek Shearer
31.
Who is the famous African American author of the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Answer:
Zora Neale Hurston
32.
Which African American civil rights activist was known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"?
Answer:
Rosa Parks
33.
Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Answer:
Dr. Charles Drew
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