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36 Cards in this Set
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The founder BET, who became the first African American billionaire in 2001? |
Robert “Bob” Johnson
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What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry?
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Prince Hall
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Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States?
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Philadelphia Tribune
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Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004
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Oprah Winfrey
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What was the name of the first Black American radio network?
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National Negro Network
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Who was the first Black to anchor a national network television news program?
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Max Robinson
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Who was the first Black American women bank president?
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Maggie Lena Walker
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Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?
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Joseph L. Searles
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Established in 1945, What is the name of the world’s largest black owned publishing company which owns Ebony and Jet magazines?
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Johnson Publishing Company
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Who founded the Ebony magazine?
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John H. Johnson
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Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?
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Issac Myers
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What did Madame C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door to door?
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Hair Care Preparation Products
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The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
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Frederick Douglass
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What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on Washington?
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Philip Randolph
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From what Atlanta college did Martin Luther King Jr. graduate?
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Morehouse College
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Who was the first Black American female president of Spelman College?
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Johnetta Cole
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Who was the first Black American to graduate from College?
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John Russwurm
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What is Dr. Carter G. Woodson known?
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Black History Month
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W.E.B. Dubois was the first Black American to receive a PH.D. from what prestigious university?
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Harvard University
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What state has the most black-institutions of higher learning?
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Georgia
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Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americans in higher education in the United States?
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Clark Atlanta University, Morris Brown College, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine
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Who was the President at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver?
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Booker T. Washington
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Staring with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?
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Bethune-Cookman College
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Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia?
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Benjamin E. Mays
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This is the first and only black college consortium, founded in 1929? Name it.
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Atlanta University System
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In what state is Tuskegee Institute located?
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Alabama
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In what year did the US Supreme Court order school integration?
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1954
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Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine?
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Billy Eckstine
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In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Black woman bank president?
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1903
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Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America’s oldest historically black college for women?
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Spelman College
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Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorf?
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One of the first Black American Millionaires
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Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship?
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Hugh Mulzac
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What famous educator and social reformer wrote Up from Slavery?
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Booker T. Washington
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Did Carter G Woodson found--Jet Magazine or the Journal of Negro History?
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The Journal of Negro History
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In 1958, what civil rights leader shared the Spingarn Medal with the Little Rock Nine?
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Daisy Bates (advisor to students who integrated Central High School in 1957)
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Name three meanings for the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
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unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, faith |
