BLACK HISTORY TRIVIA - 2022

HOLLIS F. PRICE LIBRARY PRESENTS...

BLACK HISTORY TRIVIA - 2022

1. Who is the father of Black History? __________________________________________________

2. She was born in Brownsville, TN and is referred to as the "Queen of Rock and Roll." __________________________________________________

3. What was the first all African American religious denomination in the United States? ___________________________________________________

4. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State from 2005 ? 2009 and as the 20th national security advisor from 2001 ? 2005. _____________________________________________________

5. Who came before Rosa Parks in protesting the segregation of public transportation? _______________________________________________________

6. Who served as a US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Ambassador and lead an American Law School? ____________________________________

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7. Who extracted over 285 products from the peanut and over 118 products from the sweet potato?__________________________

8. This American singer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. She had 5 brothers who were pretty talented, too. ____________________________________

9. She starred in Claudine and Carmen Jones, but she's most famous for her role as Julia.

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10.She was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel, The Color Purple. __________________________________________________

11.She was the first woman to become a pilot and the first to hold an international pilot license. ________________________________

12.She made over 20 trips from the North to South as the "Conductor" of the Underground Railroad. _________________________________

13.This famous anthropologist wrote the classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. ___________________________________________________

14.She was the first Black woman to write a play that appeared on Broadway. ___________________________________________________

15.Early in his career, he was known as the Beale Street Blues Boy.

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16.In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed her Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration and thus became the highest-ranking Black woman in government.

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17.She was the first Black to sing a principal role with the Metropolitan opera. ____________________________________________________

18.She played Dorothy in The Wiz and has a daughter on the popular television series, Black-ish. _____________________________________________________

19.She was instrumental in getting Congress to pass the 1965 Voting Rights bill that protected Black voters. _______________________________

20.She was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film version of A Raisin in the Sun.

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21.He was a composer and musician who referred to himself as "The Father of the Blues." ________________________________________________________

22.She was born Eleanora Fagan, but professionally, she was known as "Lady Day."

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