• Do you know about the influential people and events in recent African American History? Come to a BSU meeting to check your answers.

    1. Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
    2. Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator? 
    3. Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award? 
    4. What Amendment gave the African Americans the right to vote? 
    5. In March 2, 1955, what 15 yr. old refused to sit in the back of the bus, 9 months before Rosa Parks? 
    6. Who became the first black African American to win the U.S. presidential race? 
    7. Who escaped from slavery and became an instrumental leader of the Underground Railroad?
    8. The first known sale of slaves occurred when?
    9. Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
    10. Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State? 
    11. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American to become what? 
    12. What was the first African Am. Owned and operated newspaper? 
    13. What was the largest civil rights protest in America? 
     14. What basketball player was the first to score 100 points in a single game?
    15. Who was the first African Am. Woman lawyer? 
    16. Who was the 1st African Am. Woman to host a television program for 25 yrs. And now owns her own network? 
    17. Who was the fist African Am. Woman to write and read her poem at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993? 
     18. What leader stated the famous “I have a dream speech”?
    19. Who became the first African Am. In Olympic history to win the individual all around event at the 2012 Summer Olympics? 
    20. What laws were state and local laws enforcing the separate with and black people in public and private facilities?
    21. Which celebrity gave $1000,000 to 4 historically black colleges? 
    22. What was the name of the group of nine African Am. Students that were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus? 
    23. What Amendment abolished slavery? 
    24. What artist released a song that sent waves through black American culture, “Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud”? 
    25. Which NBA basketball star opens his 3rd & 4th grade school that serves at risk children—“I Promise School” ?
    26. Who were the two founders of the Black Panther Party?
    27. Who led the most successful slave revolt in U.S. history? 
    28. Who was the first African American Millionaire? 
    29. Who was the first African American Quarterback to win a Super Bowl and what Historical Black College did he attend?
    30. What popular super hero movie had an African-American director and a predominantly black cast that has made $13.5 billion at the global box office over the past 10 years?