African American Quiz Bowl

In 2018, this person became not only the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, but also the first winner who is not a classical or jazz musician.

• J. Cole

• Drake

• Jay-Z

• Kendrick Lamar

The central purpose of ____, an organization of African American civic leaders formed in 1879, was "to encourage and promote the development of the industrial and educational resources of the colored people of NC.

• NAACP

• NCIA

• NALC

• NNLC

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, this person became the first black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games, winning the speedskating 1000 meter event.

• Shani Davis

• Jesse Owen

• Florence Joyner

• Wilma Rudolph

_______ is the only California community to be founded, financed and governed by African-Americans.

• Vernon

• Langston

• Allensworth

• Summit

In 1869, _____ became the country's first black law school.

• North Carolina A&T State Univesity

• Bethune-Cookman University

• Spelman College

• Howard University

The first university owned and operated by African-Americans is _______.

• Wilberforce College

• Tuskegee University

• Carver College

• Bennett College

Born in Willow Springs, NC in 1939, ______ is a retired US Army officer who was Chief of the

United States Army Nurse Corps from 1987 to 1991.

• Della H. Raney

• Clara Leach Adams-Ender

• Hazel Johnson-Brown

• Michele S. Jones

In 1836, William S. Whipper helped form the ______ which helped blacks acquire farmland and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada.

• National Black Farmers Association

• National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union

• American Moral Reform Society

• Northeast Farmers of Color Network

American poet and Alamance County, NC native __________ was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2014. She was appointed to be the 9th North Carolina Poet Laureate in June 2018 and is the first African American to receive this recognition.

• Roberta Cleopatra Flack

• Jaki Shelton Green

• Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

• Anna J Cooper

_______, also known as _______ Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas, and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans throughout the former Confederacy of the southern United States.

• Loving Day

• Juneteenth

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

• Black History