1. Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? --
2. How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? --
3. Who was the first African to arrive in America --
4. Who was the first black saint? --
5. Who was the first black president in North America? --
6. Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? --
7. Who was the first black explorer of the North American Southwest? --
8. Which slave literally wrote his way to freedom? --
9. What was the first black town in North America? --
10. Who was George Washington's runaway slave? --
11. Who was the first black person in the United States to lead a "back to Africa" effort? --
12. Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus? --
13. Where was the first black town in what is now the United States? --
14. What happened to the "forty acres and a mule" that former slaves were promised? --
15. Were slaves actually eaten by dogs? --
16. Where was the first Underground Railroad? --
17. What was the second Middle Passage? --
18. How much did the cotton industry shape American history and the lives of enslaved Africans? --
19. How much African ancestry does the average African American have? --
20. Who originated the concept of the "talented tenth" black leadership class? --
21. Who was the first African-American fighter pilot? --
22. Did black people own slaves? If so, why? --
23. How did Harriet Tubman become a legend? --
24. When did black literature begin to address African-American sexuality? --
25. Is most of what we believe about the Underground Railroad true? --
26. Did Russia's Peter the Great adopt an African man as his son? --
27. Were Alexander Pushkin's African roots important to him? --
28. Was Jackie Robinson court-martialed? --
29. What were the largest slave rebellions in America? --
30. What were the biggest acts of betrayal within the enslaved community? --
31. What is one of the most novel ways a slave devised to escape bondage? --
32. Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history?--
33. Were there any successful slavery escapes by sea? --
34. How was black support enlisted for World War II, when the armed services were segregated? --
35. How did the Black Sambo memorabilia that is collected today come to be? --
36. Who was Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case? --
37. What is Juneteenth? --
38. Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? --
39. Did black combatants fight in the Battle of Gettysburg? --
40. Before Emancipation, didn't most free blacks live in the northern half of America? --
41. Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? --
42. How did the son of a former slave defy the color bar to become a wealthy fixture of European nightlife during the Jazz Age? --
43. Which massacre resulted in a Supreme Court decision limiting the federal government's ability to protect black Americans from racial targeting? --
44. Which episode of racial violence destroyed the community known as the "Black Wall Street"? --
45. How could integrating information about the fight for civil rights into K-12 curricula better to educate our children and foster a real conversation on race? --
46. Which civil rights leader and gay barrier-breaker was kept in the shadows by the civil rights movement establishment? --
47. Did Martin Luther King, Jr., improvise in the "Dream" speech? --
48. Which enslaved African managed to press his case for freedom all the way to the White House? --
49. Who was history's wealthiest person? --
50. Who was the first black poet in the Western world? --
51. Who was the founder of Chicago? --
52. What's the real story of the legendary mixed-race slave trader Joel Rogers called "Mongo John"? --
53. How did the story of Solomon Northup, the author of Twelve Years a Slave, first become public? --
54. Who was the first black man to serve in the U.S. Senate?
Which black governor was almost a senator? --
56. Which regiment of black soldiers returning after World War I received a hero's welcome in New York City? --
57. Who were the African Americans in the Kennedy administration? --
58. When did African-American women hit their stride in professional achievement? --
59. Who were the black passengers on the doomed Titanic voyage? --
60. Which former slave became a deputy U.S. marshal and a renowned symbol of law and order in the wild west? --
61. Who were the black people killed in the raid on Harpers Ferry? --
62. What myth of eternal youth in Africa inspired Europeans for centuries? --
63. How did black soldiers come to fight in the American Civil War? --
64. Which black man engaged a Founding Father in a debate about racial equality? --
65. How were Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela linked? --
66. Did Lincoln really free the slaves? --
67. How did Black History Month come into being? --
68. What was the original color of the mythical beauty Andromeda? --
69. How often were enslaved Americans about to tell their stories? --
70. What started the black newspaper industry in America? --
71. What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? --
72. Who was the first American-born black person to draw crowds using sleight of hand -- and voice? --
73. Who was the first black actor to play the role of Shakespeare's tortured Moor? --
74. Who was the patron saint of African slaves and their descendants? --
75. Was a black slave to blame for the Salem witch trials? --
76. What's the truth about many African-American families having a Native American ancestor? --
77. Which pioneering play introduced mainstream American audiences to the dynamics undergirding the civil rights movement? --
78. What role did Lord Mansfield's mixed-race great-niece, Dido Elizabeth Belle, play in his famous decision on slavery in England? --
79. Who was the first African-American writer to investigate and report the wrongdoings of a world leader? --
80. Who were the first notable African Americans who stepped into America's institutions of higher learning? --
81. What was Freedom's Fort, and how does it relate to Memorial Day? --
82. Which French general under Napol̕eon had African ancestry and was a forebear to two French literary greats? --
83. Which famous nineteenth-century French author had African ancestry? --
84. Which Zula king led his men to victory over British invaders and mounted warfare that killed a French "prince"? --
85. Why was the summer of 1964 pivotal in the fight for civil rights? --
86. Which civil rights warrior received numerous telephone calls from the U.S. president during the fight to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? --
87. What happened to Argentina's black population? --
88. Which event in black history took place in what is now Iraq? --
89. Did black people engage in piracy during its heyday in the Americas? --
90. How did the shattering of the color barrier for Rhodes scholarships forever change the black arts movements? --
91. Which black female poet owned a garden house that became a popular home-away-from-home down south for the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance? --
92. When President Abraham Lincoln met with free black leaders in 1862, what did he propose? --
93. Which black justices broke the color barrier at the federal court level? --
94. Who buried the war dead from the Battle of Gettysburg? --
95. What did Malcolm X do at Oxford University? --
96. Which black man made many of our favorite household products better? --
97. Which twentieth-century black actor played roles of all races during a time when Hollywood had few roles for black actors? --
98. Who were the first black boxing champions? --
99. Who were the key scholars responsible for the discipline of black history? --
100. What are the most important facts to know about American slavery?