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BLACK HERITAGE WEEKEND BRAINBOWL QUESTIONS - Ages 7 - 12

African-American Firsts: Government

GOV 1 Who was the 1st African American Officeholder in colonial America?

Matthias de Souza.

GOV 2

What year and what state did Matthias de Souza, the 1st African American office holder elected? 1641 & Maryland

GOV 3

Who was the 1st African American Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston

GOV 4 What year was John Mercer Langston, the 1st African American

Municipal official elected? 1855.

GOV 5 What city did John Mercer Langston represent? Brownhelm

Township in Ohio

GOV 6 Who was the 1st African American State Supreme Court Justice?

Jonathan Jasper Wright

GOV 7

What year was Jonathan Jasper Wright elected to the South Carolina

Supreme Court? 1870

GOV 8 Who was the 1st African American U.S. Representative? Joseph

Rainey.

GOV 9 What year was Joseph Rainey elected as US Representative? 1870.

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GOV 10

What party did Joseph Rainey belong to? Republican

GOV 11 Who was the 1st African American Governor that was appointed?

P.B.S. Pinchback

GOV 12 What year was P.B.S. Pinchback the 1st African American governer

appointed? 1872.

GOV 13 What State did P.B.S. Pinchback represent? Louisiana

GOV 14

Who was the 1st elected African American Woman legislator? Crystal Bird Fauset

GOV 15

What year was Crystal Bird Fauset the 1st African American Woman legislator elected? 1938

GOV 16

What state did Crystal Bird Fauset represent? Pennsylvania

GOV 17

Who was the 1st African American U.S. cabinet member? Robert C.

Weaver

GOV 18

What year was Robert C Weaver the 1st African American U.S Cabinet

member appointed? 1966

GOV 19

What was Robert Weaver’s official title: Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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GOV 20 20. Who was the 1st African American Major party nominee for

President and what year was he nominated? Sen. Barack Obama, 2008

African-American Firsts: Law

LAW 1

Who was the 1st African American Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen

LAW 2

Who was the 1st African American Woman admitted to the bar:

Charlotte Ray

LAW 3 Who was the 1st African American Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W.

Gibbs

LAW 4

Who was the 1st African American Editor of the Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston

LAW 5

Who was the 1st African American Federal Judge: William Henry

Hastie

LAW 6 Who was the 1st African American Woman federal judge: Constance

Baker Motley

LAW 7

Who was the 1st African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall.

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LAW 8 Who was the 1st African American President of the American Bar

Association: Dennis Archer.

LAW 9 Who was the 1st African American Federal Employee? William Cooper

Nell

LAW 10

What federal job did William Cooper Nell hold? Clerk in a Boston Post Office

LAW 11

Who was the 1st African American Voter? Thomas Peterson of Perth

Amboy, New Jersey.

LAW 12 Who was the 1st African American that served as a New York City

policeman? Wiley G. Overton, 1891

LAW 13

Who was the 1st to discover the Watergate break-in? Frank Willis, an African American Security Guard

LAW 14

Who was the 1st African American to give a Keynote speech before a

Democratic National Convention? Barbara Jordan, July 1976

LAW 15 Who was the 1st African American woman elected Mayor in Mississippi?

Unita Blackwell, 1976

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African-American Firsts: Diplomacy

DIP 1

Who was the 1st African American U.S. ambassador? Ebenezer D.

Bassett

DIP 2 To what country was Ebenezer D Bassett an ambassador: Haiti

DIP 3

Who was the 1st African American Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J.

Bunche

DIP 4 Who was the 1st African American Woman U.S. ambassador: Patricia

Harris

DIP 5

Who was the 1st African American U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977.

DIP 6

Who was the youngest African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Martin L. King

African-American Firsts: Military

MIL 1

What was the 1st African American U.S Army unit to have black men

comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment,

MIL 2 Who was the 1st African American Commissioned officer in the U.S.

Navy: Robert Smalls

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MIL 3 Who was the 1st African American Commissioned officer above the

rank of Captain in the U.S. Army: Major Martin R. Delany

MIL 4 Who was the 1st African American West Point graduate: Henry O.

Flipper

MIL 5

Who was the 1st African American Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown.

MIL 6

Who was the 1st African American Congressional Medal of Honor

winner: Sgt. William H. Carney

MIL 7 Who was the 1st African American Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques

Bullard

MIL 8

Who was the 1st African American General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

MIL 9 Who was the 1st African American Woman general: Hazel W.

Johnson,

MIL 10

Who was the 1st African American Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines

MIL 11

Who was the 1st African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

Staff: Colin Powell,

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MIL 12 Who was the 1st African American Woman Rear Admiral in the United

States Navy: Lillian Fishburne

MIL 13 When did the US Naval accept it’s 1st African American? September

1872

MIL 14

Who was the US Naval 1st African American? James Henry Conyers

MIL 15 Who were the 1st African American Fighter Pilots in the US Air Force?

The Tuskegee Airmen

MIL 16

Who was the 1st African American soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War? Milton Lee Olive III

MIL 17

What did Milton Lee Olive III do to earn the Congressional Medal of

Honor in Vietnam? He threw himself on a grenade, sacrificing himself and to save the lives of his comrades.

MIL 18

Who was the 1st African American woman to command an Air Force

Flying Squadron? Col Stayce Harris

African-American Firsts: Science and Medicine

SCI/MED 1

Who was the 1st African American Patent holder? Thomas L. Jennings

SCI/MED 2 Who was the 1st African American Physician? James Derham

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SCI/MED 3 What year did Thomas L Jennings get his 1st patent? 1821

SCI/MED 4

Who was the 1st African American Woman Dentist? Ida Gray

SCI/MED 5

Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. degree? James McCune Smith

SCI/MED 6

What was the 1st National Monument dedicated to an African

American? The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri

SCI/MED 7

When was the George Washington Carver National Monument in

Diamond, Missouri dedicated? 1953

SCI/MED 8 Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. degree from a U.S.

Medical School? David Jones Peck

SCI/MED 9

Who was the 1st African American Woman to receive an M.D. degree? Rebecca Lee Crumpler

SCI/MED 10

What African American was the 1st to earn a Ph.D. in Computer

Science? Clarence “Skip” Ellis

SCI/MED 11 Who was the 1st African American Woman patent holder? Judy Reed.

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SCI/MED 12 What invention did Judy Reed get the patent for? A “dough Kneader

and roller.

SCI/MED 13 Who was the 1st African American Female Dental Surgeon? Ida Gray

Nelson Rollins

SCI/MED 14

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital

SCI/MED 15

Who founded the 1st Black owned hospital? Daniel Hale Williams.

SCI/MED 16

What year was Provident Hospital, the 1st Black owned hospital founded? 1891

SCI/MED 17

Who was the 1st African American Heart surgery pioneer? Daniel Hale

Williams

SCI/MED 18 Who was the 1st African American Developer of the blood bank? Dr.

Charles Drew

SCI/MED 19

Who was the 1st African American Member of the National Academy of Sciences? David Harold Blackwell

SCI/MED 20

Who was the 1st African American Astronaut? Robert H. Lawrence,

Jr.

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SCI/MED 21 Who was the 1st African American Implantation of heart defibrillator?

Levi Watkins, Jr.

SCI/MED 22 Who was the 1st African American Astronaut to travel in space? Guion

Bluford

SCI/MED 23

Who was the 1st African American Head of the National Science Foundation? Walter E. Massey

SCI/MED 24

Who was the 1st African American Woman astronaut? Mae Jemison

SCI/MED 25

Who was the 1st African American President of the American Medical Association? Lonnie Bristow

African-American Firsts: Scholarship

SCH 1 1. Who was the 1st African American College graduate (B.A.)?

Alexander Lucius Twilight

SCH 2

Who was the 1st African American Graduate of an Ivy League School? Theodore Sedgewick Wright

SCH 3

What year did Theodore S. Wright graduate from Princeton

Theological Seminary? 1828

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SCH 4 Who was the 1st African American College professor? Charles Lewis

Reason

SCH 5

Who was the 1st African American Woman to complete 4 years of

collegiate study from a college? Lucy Stanton

SCH 6 Who Was the 1st African American woman to earn a B.A. degree

college? Mary Jane Patterson

SCH 7

Who was the 1st African American College president? Daniel A. Payne

SCH 8 What was the 1st African American Non-white public high school? Paul

Lawrence Dunbar High

SCH 9

Who was the 1st African American Ph.D.? Edward A. Bouchet

SCH 10 Who was the 1st African American Elected to Phi Beta Kappa? George

Washington Henderson

SCH 11

Who was the 1st African American Rhodes scholar? Alain L. Locke

SCH 12 Name 3 of the 1st African American Women Ph.D's: Georgiana

Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes

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SCH 13 Who was the 1st African American Ivy League University president?

Ruth Simmons

SCH 14 What year was Ruth Simmons assigned to Brown University, an Ivy

League School? 2001

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Who was the 1st African American to receive an honorary degree from Harvard? Booker T. Washington

African-American Firsts: Art and Literature

ART/LIT 1

Who was the 1st African American Poet? Lucy Terry

ART/LIT 2

Who was the 1st African American Published autobiography? Briton Hammon

ART/LIT 3

Who was the 1st African American Poet (published)? Phyllis

Wheatley

ART/LIT 4 Who was the 1st African American Recognized artist? Joshua

Johnston

ART/LIT 5

Who was the 1st African American Woman's autobiography? Jarena Lee

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ART/LIT 6 Who was the 1st African American Male Novelist? William Wells

Brown

ART/LIT 7 Who was the 1st African American Woman novelist? Harriett Wilson

ART/LIT 8

Who was the 1st African American Recognized photographer? James

Conway Farley

ART/LIT 9 Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize winner? Gwendolyn

Brooks

ART/LIT 10

Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize winner in Drama? Charles Gordone,

ART/LIT 11

Who was the 1st African American Nobel Prize for Literature winner?

Toni Morrison,

ART/LIT 12 Who was the 1st African American Poet to read at a Presidential

Inauguration? Maya Angelou

ART/LIT 13

What poem did Maya Angelou read at Bill Clinton’s Inauguration? “On the Pulse of Morning”

ART/LIT 14

What poet was the 1st African American to pass the Florida Bar exam?

James Weldon Johnson

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ART/LIT 15 Who wrote the 1st Novel by an African American to be bought by

Hollywood? Frank Yerby

African-American Firsts: Newspapers and Other Print Media

NEWS/PR 1

What was the 1st African American Newspaper? Freedom's Journal

NEWS/PR 2

Who published the 1st African American Magazine? David Ruggles

NEWS/PR 3

What was the 1st African Daily newspaper? New Orleans Tribune,

NEWS/PR 4

Who started the 1st family owned African American Newspaper? John H. Murphy

NEWS/PR 5 What was the name of the 1st family owned African American Newspaper?

The Afro-American

NEWS/PR 6 Who was the 1st African American War Correspondent? Ralph W. Tyler

NEWS/PR 7 Who was the 1st African American Anchor of a TV Morning News Show?

Bryant Gumbel

NEWS/PR 8

What African American magazine is a Mass Circulation Magazine? Ebony,

NEWS/PR 9 What year did Ebony 1st appear? 1945

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NEWS/PR 10 Who was Ebony’s creator? John H. Johnson

NEWS/PR 11 What other magazine did John H. Johnson publish? Jet

African-American Firsts: Music and Dance

MUS/D 1 What was the 1st African American Published musical

composition? Francis Johnson

MUS/D 2

What was the 1st African American Theatrical company? The African

Company.

MUS/D 3

Who is the 1st African American Nationally recognized dance

performer? William Henry Lane (Master Juba)

MUS/D 4

Who was the 1st African American Member of the New York City

Opera? Todd Duncan

MUS/D 5

Who was the 1st African American Member of the Metropolitan Opera

Company? Marian Anderson

MUS/D 6

What honor was given to Marian Anderson in 2005? A commemorative stamp was issues in her honor.

MUS/D 7

Who was the 1st African American Male Grammy Award winner? Count

Basie

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MUS/D 8

Who was the 1st African American Woman Grammy Award winner? Ella

Fitzgerald

MUS/D 9

Who was the 1st African American Principal dancer in a major dance

company: Arthur Mitchell,

MUS/D 10

What was the 1st Singing Group to perform Spirituals throughout the world?

The Fisk Jubilee Singers

MUS/D 11

Who was the 1st Composer of Gospel Hymns? Charles A. Tindley

MUS/D 12

Who was the 1st Great Jazz Composer? Jelly Roll Morton

MUS/D 13

Who founded the 1st Gospel Publishing Company? Thomas Dorsey

MUS/D 14

Who was the 1st African American vocalist to sing with a white orchestra? Lena Horne

MUS/D 15

Who was the 1st African American Country Music Star? Charley Pride

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African-American Firsts: Film and Theater

FL/TH 1

What was the 1st African American film company? Lincoln Motion

Picture Company,

FL/TH 2

Who was the 1st African American Film director? Oscar Micheaux

FL/TH 3

Who was the 1st African American Oscar winner? Hattie McDaniel,

FL/TH 4

For what movie did Hattie McDaniels win her Oscar? Gone with the Wind

FL/TH 5

Who was the 1st African American to earn an Honorary Oscar? James

Baskett

FL/TH 6

Who was the 1st African American Tony Award Winner? Juanita Hall

FL/TH 7

What Broadway play did Juanita Hall win a Toy Award for? South Pacific

FL/TH 8

Who was the 1st African American to win an Oscar for, Best Actor? Sidney

Poitier

FL/TH 9

Who was the 1st African American Director for a major Hollywood

studio? Gordon Parks

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FL/TH 10 What African American Woman director for a major Hollywood Studio? Julie

Dash

FL/TH 11

Who was the 1st African American Oscar, Best Actress? Dorothy

Dandridge

FL/TH 12 What is the name of the film that Hallie Berry won an Oscar for? Monster’s

Ball

FL/TH 13

Who was the 1st African American First President of the Academy of

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars)? Cheryl Boone Isaacs

FL/TH 14 Who was the 1st African American Hollywood Star? Lincoln Theodore

Monroe Andrew Perry better known as Stepin Fetchit

FL/TH 15 Who was the 1st African American Movie Cowboy? Herb Jeffries

African-American Firsts: Radio and Television

RAD/TV 1

Who was the 1st African American Radio broadcaster? Jack L. Cooper

RAD/TV 2

What was the 1st Black-owned radio station? WERD

RAD/TV 3

Who purchased the 1st Black owned radio station? Jesse B. Blayton, Sr.

RAD/TV 4

Where was the 1st Black owned radio station located? Atlanta Georgia

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RAD/TV 5

Who was the 1st African American Network television show host? Nat

King Cole

RAD/TV 6

Who was the 1st African American Star of a network television show? Bill

Cosby

RAD/TV 7

What was the 1st African American Black-owned television station?

WGPR-TV

RAD/TV 8

Who was the 1st African American Evening News Anchorman? Max

Robinson

RAD/TV 9

What TV station was Max Robinson Anchor of? ABC Evening News

RAD/TV 10

Who was the 1st African American Woman television show host? Oprah

Winfrey

RAD/TV 11

What did Oprah Winfrey do in January 2007, in Henley-on-Klip, South

Africa: Built The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls

RAD/TV 12 What was the 1st all Black TV sitcom? Amos & Andy

RAD/TV 13

In 2012, what TV sitcom surpassed The Jefferson’s as the longest-running sitcom with a predominately African American cast in the history of American

television in terms of number of episodes? Tyler Perry’s House of Payne RAD/TV 14

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Who was the 1st African American woman to make the final four on the TV Show The Apprentice 5 with Donald Trump? Roxanne Tessa Lisa Wilson RAD/TV 15 What was the 1st Black college to train radio engineers? Howard University

African-American Firsts: Sports

SPTS 1

Who was the 1st African American Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby: Oliver

Lewis

SPTS 2

Who was the 1st African American Professional baseball player: Moses

Fleetwood Walker

SPTS 3 Who was the 1st African American Professional Golfer: John Matthew

Shippen, Jr.

SPTS 4

Who was the 1st African American World cycling champion: Marshall W.

"Major" Taylor

SPTS 5

Who was the 1st African American Olympic medalist (Summer

games): George Page

SPTS 6

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Summer

games): John Baxter "Doc" Taylor

SPTS 7

Who was the 1st African American World Heavyweight boxing

champion: Jack Johnson

SPTS 8

Who was the 1st African American NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard

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SPTS 9

Who was the 1st African American Professional Race Car Driver, Rajo

Jack De Soto

SPTS 10

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Summer

games; individual): DeHart Hubbard

SPTS 11

Who was the 1st African American Major league baseball player in the

20th Century: Jackie Robinson

SPTS 12

Who was the 1st African American Woman gold medalist (Summer games;

individual): Alice Coachman

SPTS 13

Who was the 1st African American NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower

SPTS 14

Who was the 1st African American Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea

Gibson

SPTS 15

Who was the 1st African American NHL hockey player: Willie O'Ree

SPTS 16

Who was the 1st African American NASCAR stock car driver to win a major

race: Wendell Oliver Scott,

SPTS 17

Who was the 1st African American Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe

SPTS 18

Who was the 1st African American Professional Bowlers Association

Champion: George Branham III

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SPTS 19

Who was the 1st African American Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi

Thomas

SPTS 20

Who was the 1st African American Golf champion: Tiger Woods

SPTS 21

Who was the 1st African American Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley

SPTS 22

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Winter

games): Vonetta Flowers

SPTS 23

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Winter games;

individual): Shani Davis

SPTS 24 Who is the 1st African American NFL coach to win a Super bowl: Tony

Dungy

SPTS 25 Who was the 1st African American NBA coach to win a Championship: Bill

Russell

African-American Firsts: Religion

REL 1

Who was the 1st African American Founder of the Baptist Church? David

George.

REL 2

What was the name of the first African American Church? Silver Bluff Baptist Church

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REL 3

What was the name of 1st African American African Episcopal (AME)

Church? Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794.

REL 4

Where is Mother Bethel AMEC located? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

REL 5

What was the 1st Church-Sponsored African American College? Wilberforce University,

REL 6

What year was Wilberforce founded? 1856.

REL 7

Where is Wilberforce located? Ohio.

REL 8

What is the name of the 1st African American Episcopal Church Bishop? James Theodore Holly

REL 9

Who founded the 1st African American Pentecostal Faith

Revival? William J. Seymour

REL 10 What was the name of the 1st African American Pentecostal church? Azusa

Street Revival.

REL11

What was the name of the National Black Catholic Fraternal Order? Knights

of St. Peter Claver

REL 12

Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop in the Episcopal

(Anglican) Church? Barbara Harris,

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REL 13

When was Barbara Harris, the 1st African American Episcopal Bishop chosen? 1989.

REL 14

Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop of the African Methodist

Episcopal (AME) Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie,

REL 15

What year was Vashti McKenzie chosen? 2000.

REL 16 Who was the 1st President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fred Luter,

Jr.

REL 17

What year was Fred Luter Jr, the 1st President of the Southern Baptist Convention chosen? 2012

REL 18 Who was the 1st African American Chaplin commissioned in the Army?

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

REL 19 Who was the 1st African American to head a predominantly white religious

denomination? Rev William G. Sinkford

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Who was the 1st African American Chaplin at Yale University? Rev Frederick Jerome Streets

African-American Firsts: Business and Labor

BS/LA 1

Who were the 1st African American Landowners? Anthony and Mary

Johnson

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BS/LA 2

What was the name of the 1st African American Black-owned insurance

company? The African Insurance Company

BS/LA 3

What was the name of the 1st Black Labor Union? American League of Colored Laborers

BS/LA 4

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned Bank? True Reformers Bank

BS/LA 5

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned resort? Highland Beach, Maryland

BS/LA 6

When did the 1st Black owned resort The Highland Beach Resort open?

1893

BS/LA 7

Who was the 1st African American Millionaire? Robert Abbott

BS/LA 8

How did Robert Abbot, the 1st African American Millionaire make his money?

He founded the newspaper The Chicago Defender

BS/LA 9

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What was the 1st African American Automobile manufacturing company? C.R. Patterson & Sons

BS/LA 10 What was the first African American Record Company? Black Swan

Records

BS/LA 11 What was the name of the 1st African American Black-owned Youth

Camp? Camp Atwater

BS/LA 12

Who was the founder of the 1st Black-owned metropolitan newspaper? Robert Maynard

BS/LA 13

What was its name of the 1st Black owned metropolitan newspaper? The Oakland Tribune

BS/LA 14

Who was the 1st African American Billionaire? Robert Johnson, 2001

BS/LA 15

What did Robert Johnson own? Black Entertainment Television.

Other African-American Firsts:

OTHER 1ST 1

Who was the 1st African American Explorer of the North Pole? Matthew

Henson

OTHER 1ST 2

What year did Matthew Henson explore the North Pole? 1909.

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OTHER 1ST 3

Who was the 1st African American Secret Service Agent? Charles LeRoy

Gittens

OTHER 1ST 4

Who was the 1st African American Licensed Pilot? Bessie Coleman

OTHER 1ST 5

5. Who was the 1st African American Explorer of the South Pole? George

Gibbs

OTHER 1ST 6

When did George Gibbs explore the South Pole? 1939–1941

OTHER 1ST 7

Who was the 1st African American Captain of an American Merchant

Marine ship? Hugh Mulzac

OTHER 1ST 8

Who was the 1st African American Pilot for a commercial airline? Perry

Young, Jr.

OTHER 1ST 9 What was the name of the airline that Perry Young, the 1st African American

commercial pilot worked for? New York Airways

OTHER 1ST 10

Who was the 1st African American Flight Attendant? Ruth Carol Taylor

OTHER 1ST 11

What was the name of the airline that Ruth Carol Taylor the 1st African

American Flight attendant worked for? Mohawk Airlines

OTHER 1ST 12

Who was the 1st African American President of Girl Scouts, USA? Gloria

Dean Randall Scott

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OTHER 1ST 13

Who was the 1st African American Woman commercial airline pilot? Jill

Elaine Brown

OTHER 1ST 14

Who was the 1st African American Miss America? Vanessa Williams

OTHER 1ST 15

Who was the 1st African American to sail solo around the world? William

Pinkney

OTHER 1ST 16

Who was the 1st African American Miss USA? Carole Ann-Marie Gist

OTHER 1ST 17

Who was the 1st African American President of the National League of

Women Voters? Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins

OTHER 1ST 18

Who was the 1st African American President of the National Parent-

Teacher Association (PTA)? Lois Jean White

OTHER 1ST 19

Who was the 1st African American to fly around the orld? Barrington

Irving

OTHER 1ST 20

Who was the 1st African American female Explorer, North Pole? Barbara

Hillary

OTHER 1ST 21

Who is the African American that is 2nd in command now for HUD and was appointed as Deputy Secretary of that agency by President Barack Obama in

2009? Ronald Cordell Sims

OTHER 1ST 22

Who is NASA’s 1st permanent black administrator that was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009? Charles Frank Bolden Jr

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OTHER 1ST 23 Who is the current and 1st African American woman to serve as the National

Security Advisor and was appointed by President Barack Obama? Susan Rice

OTHER 1ST 24 Who was the African American Woman who was born into slavery and

gained emancipation for herself and extended family by going to District court? Bridget “Biddy” Mason

OTHER 1ST 25 Who is the 1st and only female buffalo soldier, who also was the only

documented African American woman to serve in the regular army in the

19th century? Cathay Williams

OTHER 1ST 26

Who was the 1st African American woman to charter and form a bank in the US. Maggie Lena Walker

HISTORICALLY BLACK COLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

HBCU 1 Name a Historically African American college in Normal, Alabama and give 1

historical fact about it. Alabama A & M

*It started out being named Huntsville Normal School

HBCU 2 Name a Historically African American college in Montgomery, Alabama and

give 1 historical fact about it. Alabama State

*One famous alumnus is Rosa Parks

HBCU 3

Name a Historically African American college in Fairfield, Alabama and give 1

historical fact about it. Miles College

*A notable alumnus is U.S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, Alabama's first black federal judge.

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HBCU 4

Name a Historically African American college in Huntsville, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Oakwood University *One prominent alumnus is R&B musician Brian McKnight,

HBCU 5 Name a Historically African American college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and

give 1 historical fact about it. Stillman College

*Stillman began as a school that would train black men to become ministers.

HBCU 6

Name a Historically African American college in Talladega, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Talladega College *It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ

HBCU 7

Name a Historically African American college in Tuskegee, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Tuskegee University *It was the first black college to be designated as a Registered

National Historic Landmark (1966), and is the only black

college to be designated as a National Historic Site. HBCU 8

Name a Historically African American college in Daytona, Florida and give 1

historical fact about it.

Bethune-Cookman University

*Bethune-Cookman institution achieved University status in early 2007

HBCU 9 Name a Historically African American college in Jacksonville, Florida and give

1 historical fact about it Edward Waters College

*Its current name honors the third bishop of the AME church

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HBCU 10 Name a Historically African American college in Dallas, Texas and give 1

historical fact about it Paul Quinn College

* The institution was named for Bishop Paul Quinn who presided over the AME Church in the western states for nearly

30 years

HBCU 11 Name a Historically African American college in Columbia, South Carolina

and give 1 historical fact about it Allen University

*It is the oldest historically black college in the state, founded in 1870 by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

AFRICAN AMERICAN LANDMARKS

AAL 1

Name 5 of the oldest AME Churches, the city they are located in & the

year they were founded

1. St Mark AMEC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 1869

2. First AMEC, Seattle, Washington; 1886 *Bishop J.H. Adams pastored this church in 1962

3. Trinity AMEC, Salt Lake City, Utah; 1890

4. Bethel AMEC, Portland, Oregon; 1889 5. Grant AMEC, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 1883

AAL 2

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Alabama

and give a fact about them. * Selma: Brown Chapel AME Church

This church served as a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery

Marches in 1965, and it played a major role in events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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AAL 3 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of

Arkansas and give a fact about them. * Little Rock: Little Rock Central High School

This is where the first major confrontation over the implementation of

the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court ruling occurred, in 1957.

AAL 4

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of California and give a fact about them.

* Los Angeles: The Bridget "Biddy" Mason Monument

This monument honors one of the first prominent citizens and landowners in Los Angeles during the 1850s and 1860s. Mason, a

former enslaved person, founded First African Methodist Episcopal

Church in 1872.

AAL 4

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of

Connecticut and give a fact about them. * Farmington: Austin F. Williams Carriage house

This site served as living quarters for the Amistad Africans on their

way back to Africa, and as a “station” on the Underground Railroad.

AAL 5

Name 2 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of District of Columbia and give a fact about them.

* Washington: John Philip Sousa Junior High School

This school stands as a symbol of the lengthy conflict that ultimately led to the racial desegregation of public schools by the Federal

government in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

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AAL6

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Florida and give a fact about them.

* Palm Beach: Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Grave

This is the burial site of approximately 674 victims, primarily African American agricultural workers, who were killed in the hurricane of

1928 that devastated South Florida. It was one of the worst natural

disasters in American history.

AAL 7

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Georgia and give a fact about them.

* Albany: Mount Zion Baptist Church

Constructed in 1906, this brick church served as the religious, educational, and social center of Albany's African American

community, especially during the Civil Rights Movement.

AAL 8 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Illinois

and give a fact about them.

* Chicago: Oscar Stanton DePriest House This house was the residence of the first black American elected to the

House of Representatives from a northern state.

AAL 9 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Kansas

and give a fact about them.

* Topeka: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

This is the site of two Topeka schools: Monroe Elementary School and

Sumner Elementary School. Both played a significant role in the

landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

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AAL 10 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of

Louisiana and give a fact about them.

* Springfield: Carter Plantation In 1817, Thomas Freeman became the first African-American man to

own property in Livingston Parish when he acquired the pine forest in

this area that he would transform into what has come to be known as the Carter Plantation

AAL 11 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of New

Jersey and give a fact about them.

*Red Bank: T. Thomas Fortune House This National Historic Landmark was where former slave and leading

black activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune lived from 1901-1915.

AAL 12 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of New

Jersey and give a fact about them.

* New York City: Dunbar Apartments This apartment complex, constructed in 1926, is located in Harlem.

Labor reformer and unionist Asa Philip Randolph, one of many

influential African Americans who lived at the Dunbar Apartments, helped to battle racism in American industry.

AAL 13

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Ohio

and give a fact about them

* Wilberforce: Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National

Monument President Obama designated this site a National Monument in 2013. It

is where Colonel Charles Young, the first African American to achieve

the rank of colonel in the U.S. army, lived from 1864-1922. It preserves his post-Civil War military legacy.

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AAL 14 Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of

Tennessee and give a fact about them

*Memphis: Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Built between 1940 and 1945, Mason Temple served as a focal point of

civil rights activities in Memphis during the 1950s and 1960s. It was

here that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his prophetic "Mountaintop" speech on the eve of his assassination.

AME HISTORY

True or False

1. The AMEC grew out of the Free African Society (FAS) TRUE

2 The AMEC was established in 1786 FALSE

3. Richard Allen walked out of St Matthews Church when officials

pulled blacks off their knees while praying. FALSE

4. In 1794 Bethel AME was dedicated with Richard Allen as pastor.

TRUE

5. In 1807 & 1815 Richard Allen sued and lost the right of his

congregation to exist as an independent institution. FALSE

6. Richard Allen and others met in a barn to have service. FALSE

7. Bishop Edward Waters established the Canada Annual Conference.

FALSE

8. By 1880 membership of the AME church reached 400,000 because

of its rapid spread below the Mason-Dixon Line. TRUE

9. The AME Church was established in 2 continents when Bishop Henry

M. Turner pushed African Methodism into Liberia and Sierra Leone and

South Africa. TRUE

10. Today the African Methodist Episcopal Church has membership in

22 Episcopal Districts in 35 countries on 6 continents. FALSE

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11. The General Conference meets every 4 years at the place of its beginning, Mother Bethel in Philadelphia. FALSE

12. Anybody can vote on changes in the discipline at the general

Conference. FALSE

13. Delegates to the General conference are elected by their Annual

Conference delegates. TRUE

14. The Council of Bishops meets every 4 years during the time of the

General Conference. FALSE

15. The Board of Incorporators is also known as the General Board of

Trustees. TRUE

16. The Judicial Council members are elected to the Council. TRUE

17. “African” in African Methodist Episcopal means that only persons of color can be a member and hold office. FALSE

18. The African Methodist Episcopal Church is governed by rules and regulations. TRUE

19. The Chief Executives of the AME Church are the Bishops. TRUE

20. Bishops are appointed by the Council of Bishops. FALSE

21. The Apostle’s Creed is what AME’s believe. TRUE

22. AME’s do not believe in the Holy Trinity. FALSE

23. The African Methodist Episcopal members believe in 23 Articles of

Faith. FALSE

23. The AME Motto is God the Father, Christ the Redeemer, the Holy

Spirit the Comforter, Man and Woman the Family. FALSE

24. Bishop Allen J. Richardson is the Presiding Prelate of the 11th

Episcopal District. FALSE

25. Bishop Richardson is the 115 elected and concentrated Bishop of

the African Methodist Episcopal Church. TRUE

26. The 11th Episcopal District has 7 Conferences. FALSE