WorksheetsBlack History Month Business and Education
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 26mins
In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman was known as " The Richest Negro In the South?"
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Dr. Lousi C. Roundanez founded this first daily black newspaper in 1864. Name it.
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What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, inc.
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Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
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Established in 2945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the worlds largest black owned publishing company. Name it.
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What company has a successful series of television commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby?
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During the first two thirds of the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
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What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in 1713?
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Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
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Who was the first Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia?
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Elaine Farris became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school district?
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Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee?
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From what college did Martin Luther KinG, Jr. graduate?
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Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was originally named the State Normal School for Colored Persons?
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Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to become the first African American to win the Kentucky Education Association Presidents Spelling Bee?
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In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university?
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The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 to provide financial support to students who are enrolled in what educational institutions?
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What US federal government agency founded over 4000 schools, including Howard University?
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Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and member of the Kentucky Board of Education served in the U.S. Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught foreign languages?
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In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black woman president of what major university?
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Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?
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Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia?
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Where are the nine Greek Letter organizations that African Americans join known as?
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Xaiver University was the first black Catholic college. It opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high school. In what year was the college department added?
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Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was founded in what year?
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How did Barney Ford make his fortune?
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