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Black History Month Trivia
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Identify the exact magazine and year that first used the term The New Negro to title an anthology.?
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What museum opened on the National Mall in Washington in 2016 dedicated to African American history and culture?
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What 1954 Supreme Court case struck down segregation in public schools?
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Who was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968?
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What anthem written by James Weldon Johnson is often called the Black National Anthem?
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What Alabama city was central to the bus boycott that began in December 1955?
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What historically Black college founded in 1867 is known as The Mecca?
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Name the exact year and city where Marcus Garvey held the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World.?
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Who became the first Black woman to win a gymnastics all around Olympic title in 2012?
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Which city hosted the first large-scale sit-in training workshops under Diane Nash's leadership in 1960?
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Who was the first Black woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court in 1962?
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Which author wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings published in 1969?
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Which poet of the Harlem Renaissance wrote The Weary Blues?
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What precise date did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 receive the presidential signature?
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Name the first Black astronaut to orbit Earth and the mission designation in 1983.?
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Who was the first woman to chair the board of the NAACP in 1995?
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Which tennis champion finished with 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era?
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Which general music genre pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx began in the 1970s and transformed global culture?
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What historic group of World War Two pilots trained at Moton Field in Alabama?
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What was the precise founding name and year of the organization now known as ASALH?
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Which scientist popularized crop rotation with peanuts and sweet potatoes at Tuskegee Institute?
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Which author won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple?
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Who was the first African American woman in space in 1992?
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Who set four gold medal records at the 1936 Berlin Olympics challenging Nazi propaganda?
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Who became the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court in 1967?
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What 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines centers on the 1940s Louisiana prison system?
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Which abolitionist delivered the 1852 oration What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
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Name the exact school where Ruby Bridges attended first grade under federal protection in 1960.?
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Who was the first Black woman principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre in 2015?
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What movement of arts and culture in the 1920s centered in New York City?
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Who was the first African American to serve as United States president beginning in 2009?
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Who became the first Black head coach to win a Super Bowl in 2007 with the Colts?
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Who was the first Black woman to pilot a commercial flight for a major United States airline in 2016?
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Identify the exact library that houses the papers of James Weldon Johnson at Yale University.?
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What Alabama church was pastored by Martin Luther King Jr during the bus boycott years?
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Which figure served as the first Black United States Secretary of State in 2001?
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Who argued Brown v Board of Education before becoming a Supreme Court justice?
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Which playwright wrote A Raisin in the Sun premiering on Broadway in 1959?
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What was the exact founding date of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University?
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Identify the exact photographer whose images of Harlem life became the series Sweet Flypaper of Life with text by Langston Hughes.?
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Which civil rights organizer was the chief architect of the March on Washington in 1963?
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What year did the United States Army commission the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion known as the Triple Nickles?
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What holiday on June 19 marks the 1865 announcement of freedom in Texas?
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Who co-founded the Niagara Movement in 1905 which helped lead to the NAACP?
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Which civil rights group coordinated Freedom Summer voter registration in Mississippi in 1964?
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Which county and state issued the 1619 arrival record for the first documented Africans in English North America?
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What was the name of the 1966 slogan linking Black identity to political power popularized by Stokely Carmichael?
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Who became the first African American woman self-made billionaire through media ventures and ownership stakes?
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Black History Month is in February to align with the birthdays of which two figures?
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What 1968 fair housing law was enacted shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?
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What was the exact date of the I Have a Dream speech in Washington?
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What is the official name of the organization Carter G. Woodson founded in 1915 to promote Black history?
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Which legal strategist known as The Man Who Killed Jim Crow mentored Thurgood Marshall?
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Which 1966 anti-poverty program in Oakland became the model for free breakfast in public schools?
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Which 1960 sit-in leader later became a longtime United States Representative for Tennessee Fifth District?
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Identify the full title of Ida B. Wells 1892 pamphlet documenting lynching.?
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Who was the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002?
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What historic march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 focused on voting rights?
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Which 1960 student sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter sparked a wave of protests?
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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 becoming the first African American laureate?
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What exact date did Brown v Board of Education receive its Supreme Court decision?
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Which historically Black college hosted the first meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?
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Which United States Coast Guard cutter carried the all-Black Pea Island Life Saving Station crew in their 1896 rescue?
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What exact year did the National Urban League form to assist Black migrants in American cities?
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Which publisher released The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1903?
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What is the exact title of Benjamin Banneker's 1792 publication sent to Thomas Jefferson?
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Which surgeon pioneered techniques for blood plasma storage and led a wartime blood bank program?
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Which exact county in Alabama filed the case that became Browder v Gayle ending bus segregation in Montgomery?
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Which civil rights leader served more than three decades in the United States House for Georgia Fifth District?
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Which diplomat negotiated the 1949 Armistice Agreements in the Middle East earning a Nobel Peace Prize?
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Which educator founded Bethune Cookman College and advised United States presidents?
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What historically Black college for women in Atlanta was founded in 1881?
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Which composer arranged the spirituals for Marian Anderson's historic 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert?
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Who became the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for poetry?
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Which artist painted Untitled 1982 that set an auction record for an American artist in 2017?
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Name the first Black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics in the United States and her year of degree.?
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Which talk show host built a media empire starting with a Chicago program in 1986?
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Which church in Birmingham was bombed in 1963 killing four girls?
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What was the full original name of Morehouse College at its 1867 founding?
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What was the full name of the youth wing of the NAACP that trained early sit-in leaders?
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Which civil rights organization was co founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966?
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Which organization founded in 1909 is known by the initials NAACP?
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Which historian wrote Black Reconstruction in America published in 1935?
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Which legal case ended segregated graduate education at the University of Oklahoma in 1948?
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Who was the first African American woman elected to the United States Senate in 1992?
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Which writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
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Who launched Negro History Week in 1926 that later grew into Black History Month?
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Which singer recorded What a Wonderful World in 1967 and was a jazz trumpet legend?
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Which voting rights advocate declared I am sick and tired of being sick and tired in Atlantic City in 1964?
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What 1955 murder of a Chicago teenager in Mississippi became a catalyst for the civil rights movement?
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Identify the exact poem by Claude McKay that begins If we must die let it not be like hogs.?
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On what exact weekday did the Montgomery bus boycott begin in December 1955?
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What year did the Voting Rights Act become federal law ensuring protections for ballot access?
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Which civil rights icon refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955?
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Which abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor was nicknamed Moses?
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Which scholar produced the 1948 study From Slavery to Freedom that became a standard survey text?
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What was the precise title of the 1900 song for which J. Rosamond Johnson composed the music to accompany his brother's poem?
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Who delivered the I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington in 1963?
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In which year did Carter G. Woodson launch Negro History Week that later expanded nationally?
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What student-led organization founded in 1960 trained sit-in activists across the South?
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Who was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
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Which Supreme Court decision in 1967 struck down state bans on interracial marriage?
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Which exact baseball park hosted Jackie Robinson's debut on April 15, 1947?
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Which city housed the Colored Orphans Asylum burned during the 1863 New York draft riots?
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Which 1940 Academy Award did Hattie McDaniel win and for what role title?
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What year did the Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations become law?
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What city is home to Howard University, a prominent HBCU?
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Which legal victory in 1944 outlawed all white primaries in Texas?
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Name the exact case argued on the same day as Brown v Board that involved the District of Columbia.?
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Which 1951 Supreme Court case desegregated interstate bus seating before the Freedom Rides?
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What was the full name of the 1963 economic platform presented at the March on Washington?
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Which exact laboratory process did chemist Percy Julian refine to mass produce synthetic cortisone?
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Who integrated Little Rock Central High School as part of the Little Rock Nine in 1957?
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Which writer of Their Eyes Were Watching God was later rediscovered by Alice Walker?
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Which 1968 Olympic medalists raised gloved fists in Mexico City during the medal ceremony for the 200 meter race?
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Which athlete broke Major League Baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947?
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What 2016 film celebrated NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
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Which exact city and year saw the founding of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
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Which city was the starting point for the Freedom Rides in May 1961?
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Identify the exact woman who became the first Black federal judge in 1966.?
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