Who was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter in 1977, and then served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1979?

Which woman was the first African-American woman elected to the US Congress?

Who was the first black woman to be appointed U.S. attorney general?

Who became the first female Secretary of State of the United States, appointed by President Clinton in 1997?

Who was the First black woman to run for Congress in Alabama?

Who was the first African American woman to graduate from Yale and become the nation’s first African American female judge?

Who was the First black woman to become a federal judge?

Who was the first African American woman to become first lady?

Who was the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet - as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter in 1977, and then served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in 1979?

Who was the first African-American woman to become an ordained minister, a lawyer who helped found the first legal periodical about women's rights, and co-founded the National Organization of Women?

In 1997 she became the third woman to chair the Congressional Black Caucus. Who is this Congresswoman from California?

Who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field – in the 1960 Olympics for the 100 and 200 meters and the 400-meter relay?

Who was the first black woman an Olympic gold medal in 1948?

Who was the first woman to win a NASCAR team?

What African American female athlete is considered “the fastest woman of all time” and set the record for the 100 and 200 meters in 1988?

Who was the first African American to play at Wimbledon?

Who was the first African American player from Kentucky drafted into the WNBA?

Who was denied permission to sing by the Daughters of the revolution. But later became the first black person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955?

Who was the first black woman to write a Broadway play (1959) which was made into a movie (1961), “A Raisin in the Sun”?

Who was an advocate for civil rights, a fundraiser for NAACP, and the first black person to sign a long-term Hollywood contract in 1942?

Who was the first black woman invited to sing at the White House?

Who was the first black woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre?

Who was the first black woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

Who was the first black woman to win an Oscar?

Who was the first black woman to win Miss USA?

Who was the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel “The Color Purple”?

Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?

Who was the first African American woman to win a Grammy in 1958?

First African American woman to host their own talk show?

Who was the first black woman to be on the cover of Glamour?

Who was America's first great black choreographer, dancer, and teacher who formed the first black dance troupe in the 1940's?

Who was the first African American concert pianist to play with a European orchestra in 1904?

What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a African American woman?

Who is called the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul?

What is the stage name of female rapper and actress Dana Owens?

What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history?

What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You, ”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”?

In what year did the first Broadway play written by an African American woman open in New York?

Who was the first African American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer?

Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

The first work authored by a black female former slave, what was the name of Harriet A. Jacobs' 1861 work?

She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945. What was her name?

 For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?

First published African American poet?

Who was member of Harlem Renaissance, an anthropologist, and author of many books, including "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

Who was the first black concert pianist to play with a European orchestra in 1904?

Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman series?

Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of what song in 1920?

This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television movie. What is the name of the novel?

Who founded the college that became the Bethune-Cookman University in Florida and founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935?

Who was the first African American woman to attend the University of Alabama?

Who was the first African American woman to get a Ph.D. in chemistry?

Who was the First African American woman to get a patent?

Who was the First African American girl to attend all-white private school?

Who was the first African American woman to receive a B.A. degree in 1862?

What African American woman chemist developed an extract from the Awa Root which relieved leprosy symptoms when injected and which was widely used until sulfa drugs were invented in the 1940's?

Who was the first black president of an Ivy League University and the first female president of Brown University?

In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?

What state has the most African American institutions of higher learning?

In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university?

Who was the first African American in space?

Who was the first black woman to become a physician in the United States?

Who was the first African American woman to get a PhD in Physics?

Who was the first African American woman to become a surgeon in the South?

Who is responsible for inventing the method of converting gas into electricity?

What anthropology professor became the first African-American woman president of Spelman College in 1987?

Who was the first African American president of an Ivy League University and the first female president of Brown University?

Who was the first African-American woman to earn a BA degree in the United States -from Oberlin College in 1862?

Who is considered the first African American woman journalist, who advocated for women's rights and the abolition of slavery?

Who was the first African American woman to become a surgeon in the South?

Who was the first African American woman to be considered a millionaire?

First African American woman to become a CEO?

Who took over management of Columbia Sportswear Company in the late 1930’s, when it was near bankruptcy, and turned it into the largest American ski apparel company worth $4 billion in 1972?

Who is considered the first American woman to be ordained by full denominational authority in 1864, and who also campaigned vigorously for full woman suffrage?

Who was the first African American woman to get a patent?

Who is considered the first African American woman journalist who advocated for women's rights and the abolition of slavery?

Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were known collectively as what?

What slogan called for recognition of the cultural achievements of Black Americans?

For what is Gloria Dean Randle Scott remembered?

Who was the first African-American woman to become an ordained minister, a lawyer who helped found the first legal periodical about women's rights, and co-founded the National Organization of Women?

Bessie Coleman was the first black female aviator in 1921. Because of racism in the United States, she was refused entry into aeronautics schools. She was trained and received her pilot's license in what country?

Who is responsible for inventing the method of converting gas into electricity?

Who was the first Black American woman to be elected to the 20th Century Club of Boston?

Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army?

“Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's first president?

From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world's first living trademark as the image what product?

Who was the founder of the first African-American female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation?

Who was the first Black American woman bank president?

Who founded the DuSable Museum of African-American History, located in Chicago, Illinois?

Who was the first black woman to be be promoted to Colonel in the Air Force?

Who was the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license, and was a barnstorming aviator who performed daredevil tricks?

“Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's first president?

What African-American woman was born enslaved, gained her freedom in 1856, became an entrepreneur and philanthropist, and co-founded the first black church in Los Angeles?

What African-American woman was born enslaved, gained her freedom in 1856, became an entrepreneur and philanthropist, and co-founded the first black church in Los Angeles?

Who became a self-made millionaire philanthropist after creating a hair product sold house-to-house, and later held what may be the first national meeting of businesswomen in the U.S. in 1917?

What slave named Isabella became a fiery orator supporting anti-slavery and woman suffrage after gaining her freedom?

Who was the first woman bank president in America?

Who is considered the first black woman journalist who advocated for women's rights and the abolition of slavery?

Who was the first African American to serve as president?

Who won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics?

___________ played the role of Mammy in the 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.

At the end of the 1950s, __________'s Play A Raisin in the Sun became the first play produced on Broadway by an African American woman.

Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and activist that was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

First Black actor to play Shakespeare’s Othello, on Broadway.

Who was NOT a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance?

Regarded as the “King of Pop.”

Because of Charles R. Drew’s doctoral thesis while a medical student at Columbia University, ________ came to be mass produced.

Percy Julian’s work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry’s production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and __________.

Awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1923 and created methods to prevent soil depletion.

________ served as the first black executive secretary of the NAACP.

This landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision began when a man, who was one-eighth black and appeared to most to be white, boarded an East Louisiana Railway train. State law in Louisiana mandated that he sit in the "colored car." He refused and his 1895 case _____________ established "separate but equal" doctrine that would be the law for the next 50 years.

The 19th Century yielded more than just black performers in minstrel shows. Richard Potter _________________.

Who was NOT a prominent figure in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Refused to move from her seat on a Montgomery bound segregated bus at only 15 years old.

Co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

Co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966.

Prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement, gave the famous “I Have a Dream Speech.”

Written in _____________, by Judge Samuel Sewall, the Selling of Joseph was the first pamphlet in North America to argue against slavery.

Eli Whitney developed a model machine that would remove the seeds from cotton. His creation worked with stunning efficiency and made large-scale cotton production possible. On March 14, 1794, he received a patent from the U.S. government. Whitney was born in _______.

__________ provided what historians called a "rehearsal for Reconstruction".

__________ published several editions of his Almanac between 1792 and 1797.

Enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free Blacks and was nicknamed “the Prophet.”