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| Who was the first Black Congresswoman from the South? | Barbara Jordan |
| Carol Moseley-Braun was the first African American woman elected to what political office? | United States Senate |
| Who was elected the first African American mayor of Los Angeles? | Thomas Bradley |
| In 1971, the "Free Angela" movement spread across the U.S. Who was Angela? | Angela Davis |
| He was the second Black mayor of Washington, D.C. and co-founder of SNCC. Name him. | Marion Barry |
| Who was the first Black Admiral in the U.S. Navy? | Samuel L. Gravely |
| Name the former Chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission who was later appointed a Supreme Court Justice. | Clarence Thomas |
| Who was the first African American female elected to the U.S. Senate? | Carol Mosley-Braun |
| In what year did segregation end in the U.S. armed services? | 1948 |
| Who was elected in 1944 as the first Congressperson to represent Harlem? | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr |
| In what year did the Million Man March take place in Washington, D.C.? | 1995 |
| In what year was Clarence Thomas appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court? | 1991 |
| Which U.S. President signed the bill that made Martin Luther King, Jr., Day a National holiday? | Ronald Reagan |
| In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first Black person elected to what office? | U.S. Senator |
| Patricia Roberts Harris was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Ambassador. To what European Country was she appointed? | Luxembourg |
| In what year did the Supreme Court declare, "In the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place?" | 1954 |
| In what year did the U.S. Congress abolish slavery? | 1895 |
| Kurt Schmoke was elected mayor of what city in 1987? | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Oscar DePriest, in the twentieth century, became the first African American elected to which branch of government? | The House of Representatives |
| Which U. S. President had a group of advisors known as the Black Cabinet? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What U.S. Supreme Court ruling declares that school segregation is unconstitutional? | Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
| Who was the first Black woman judge in the United States? | Jane M. Bolin |
| Charlotta Spears Bass was the first Black woman to run for vice president of the United States. Which party did she represent? | The Progressive Party |
| Name President Bill Clinton's secretary during his term in office. | Betty Currie |
| What coin pictured the likeness of Booker T. Washington? | The fifty-cent piece |
| What Confederate leader did Hiram Revels replace when he became the first Black U.S. Senator? | Jefferson Davis |
| During the Civil War, what Black regiment served a year without pay to protest inequality in pay scales for Black and White soldiers? | The Massachusetts 54th |
| Mabel Keaton Staupers was the major factor in integrating what profession? | The United States Army Nursing Corps |
| What civil rights group was founded in New York City in 1909? | NAACP |
| In 1955, the Interstate Commerce Commission outlawed segregation in two places. Name one of the places. | Buses and waiting rooms |
| Who was the first African American mayor of Philadelphia? | W. Wilson Goode |
| Who was the first African American mayor of Chicago? | Harold Washington |
| Who was the first Black General in the U S Army? | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. |
| Who was the first Black Four Star General? | Daniel Chappie James |
| What act gave slave hunters the right to catch escaped slaves? | The Fugitive Slave Act |
| Where was the largest African American base during World War II? | Fort Hauchuca |
| African Americans were able to enlist in the United States Navy in what year? | 1861 |
| What law forbade slavery northwest of the Ohio River? | The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| Harold Washington was the Mayor of what American city? | Chicago |
| Who was the first Black press secretary for a U.S. President? | Andrew Hatcher |
| What attracted Blacks like Vice-Presidential candidate James W. Ford to the Communist party in the 1930s? | They were in favor of civil rights for blacks. |
| Name the first Black Attorney General who later became a U S Senator. | Edward William Brooke |
| What was accomplished by the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment? | The abolishment of slavery |
| From what district was Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress? | Bedford-Stuyvesant |
| Who was the first Black Manhattan Borough President? | Hulan Jack |
| How did Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH pressure American businesses to hire more Blacks? | By threatening Black consumer boycotts |
| What court case upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" facilities in transportation, public schools, restaurants and other public facilities? | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| Which Black politician was responsible for opening the House press gallery and the U.S. delegation to the United Nations to Blacks? | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| Who was the first Black police lieutenant of Los Angeles? | Thomas Bradley |
| Who was the first Black man to serve a full term in the U S Senate? | Blanche Kelso Bruce |
| Which Black politician made a serious bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988? | Jesse Jackson |
| Who called himself "the first bad nigger in Congress?" | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| Who won a landslide victory to become the first African American mayor of St. Louis, Missouri? | Freeman R. Bosley |
| Which Black politician was elected mayor of Detroit five times? | Coleman Young |
| In the 1968 Presidential election, how many votes did white supremacist candidate George Wallace receive? | 10 million |
| By the end of the Civil War, what percentage of soldiers in the Union Army were Black men? | 13 |
| Who pressured the government to end discrimination against African Americans in war industries, the U. S. Government, and the Armed Forces? | A. Phillip Randolph |
| Name the law that ended racial segregation in most public accommodations? | 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| Whom did Clarence Thomas replace on the Supreme Court? | Thurgood Marshall |
| When was the Fugitive Slave Law passed, requiring that runaway slaves be returned to their owners? | 1850 |
| An accused scandal of sexually harassing his former co-worker almost cost Clarence Thomas his appointment to the Supreme Court. What was the name of the accuser? | Anita Hill |
| What did Thomas Bradley do before he was elected Mayor of Los Angeles? | Policeman |
| When did the US Army begin desegregation? | 1952 |
| When did President Franklin Roosevelt ban discrimination against Blacks in war industries? | June 25, 1941 |
| Name the first president of Liberia | Joseph Jenkins Roberts |
| Who was the first Black U.S. Army officer to lead an army division? | Major General Frederick E. Davidson |
| Who was the first African American woman candidate for President of the United States in 1972? | Shirley Chisholm |
| Who was the first African American Governor elected in Virginia after Reconstruction. | Douglas Wilder |
| Harold Washington was the mayor of which major city? | Chicago |
| Approximately how many African Americans served during World War II? | One Million |
| The second Black person appointed to the United States Supreme Court was who? | Clarence Thomas |
| Why was Julian Bond denied his seat in the Georgia House of Representatives? | He opposed the Vietnam War |
| U.S. Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr., came from what state? | Michigan |
| Who was the first Black female mayor of the District of Columbia? | Sharon Pratt Kelly |
| Name the first Black woman to become a federal judge. | Constance Baker Motley |
| What African American educator was an advisor to five U.S. Presidents? | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| When was integration of the armed forces officially signed into law? | 1948 |
| Who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. | Maynard Jackson |
| How old was Thurgood Marshall when he became the first Black Justice on the Supreme Court? | 59 |
| Whom did President Jimmy Carter appoint as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? | Patricia Roberts Harris |
| Who was the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. | Marian Edelman |
| Who was the first African American soldier to win The Congressional Medal of Honor during the Korean War? | Private William Thompson |
| Name the first Black to earn the Medal of Honor for service during World War I. | Freddie Stowers |
| Which Black football player became the first Assistant Attorney General in the United States? | William H. Lewis |
| Because he kept taking civil rights cases for little or no fee, who was in debt a year after starting work as a lawyer? | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who was appointed to defend the captured Africans from the Amistad when the case was brought before the Supreme Court in February 1841? | Former President John Quincy Adams |
| What year did the Supreme Court rule on Brown vs. Board of Education? | 1954 |
| Name the first Black United States Senator. | Hiram Rhoades Revels |
| Name the United States President in office during the integration of Little Rock High School. | President Dwight Eisenhower |
| Huey P. Newton eventually went into voluntary exile in which country? | Cuba |
| The first Black woman judge in the U.S. was also the first Black woman to graduate from Yale's Law School and the first to be admitted to the Bar Association of the City of New York. Name her. | Judge Jane M. Bolin |
| Who was the first Black American appointed to the Supreme Court? | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who was the first African American to pass the Florida Bar? | James Weldon Johnson |
| What was Thurgood Marshall's first name before he shortened it? | Thoroughgood |
| New York was the last Northern state to outlaw slavery, in what year? | 1857 |
| As a postal clerk, who was one of the first Black Federal appointees. | William C. Nell |
| Who was the first Black Congressman to chair the House Budget Committee? | William H. Gray III |
| Who was the first African American Federal Court Judge in the Continental United States? | James Benton Parsons |
| How many years did Thurgood Marshall serve on the Supreme Court? | 24 |
