2020 Brainbowl Questions - Ages 7-12

Who was the 1st African American Officeholder in colonial America?

Matthias de Souza

What year and what state did Matthias de Souza, the 1st African American office holder elected?

1641 & Maryland

Who was the 1st African American Municipal elected official:

John Mercer Langston

What year was John Mercer Langston, the 1st African American Municipal official elected? .

1855

What city did John Mercer Langston represent? Brownhelm Township in Ohio

Who was the 1st African American State Supreme Court Justice?

Jonathan Jasper Wright

What year was Jonathan Jasper Wright elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court?

1870

Who was the 1st African American U.S. Representative?

Joseph Rainey.

What year was Joseph Rainey elected as US Representative?

1870

What party did Joseph Rainey belong to? Republican

Who was the 1st African American Governor that was appointed?

P.B.S. Pinchback

What year was P.B.S. Pinchback the 1st African American governer appointed?

1872

What State did P.B.S. Pinchback represent? Louisiana

Who was the 1st elected African American Woman legislator?

Crystal Bird Fauset

What year was Crystal Bird Fauset the 1st African American Woman legislator elected?

1938

What state did Crystal Bird Fauset represent? Pennsylvania

Who was the 1st African American U.S. cabinet member?

Robert C. Weaver

What year was Robert C Weaver the 1st African American U.S Cabinet member appointed?

1966

What was Robert Weaver’s official title? Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

20. Who was the 1st African American Major party nominee for President and what year was he nominated?

Sen. Barack Obama, 2008

Who was the 1st African American Admitted to the Bar:

Macon B. Allen

Who was the 1st African American Woman admitted to the bar:

Charlotte Ray

Who was the 1st African American Elected municipal judge:

Mifflin W. Gibbs

Who was the 1st African American Editor of the Harvard Law Review:

Charles Hamilton Houston

Who was the 1st African American Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie

Who was the 1st African American Woman federal judge:

Constance Baker Motley

Who was the 1st African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice:

Thurgood Marshall

Who was the 1st African American President of the American Bar Association:

Dennis Archer

Who was the 1st African American Federal Employee?

William Cooper Nell

What federal job did William Cooper Nell hold? Clerk in a Boston Post Office

Who was the 1st African American Voter? Thomas Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Who was the 1st African American that served as a New York City policeman?

Wiley G. Overton, 1891

Who was the 1st to discover the Watergate break-in?

Frank Willis, an African American Security Guard

Who was the 1st African American to give a Keynote speech before a Democratic National Convention?

Barbara Jordan, July 1976

Who was the 1st African American woman elected Mayor in Mississippi?

Unita Blackwell, 1976

Who was the 1st African American U.S. ambassador?

Ebenezer D. Bassett

To what country was Ebenezer D Bassett an ambassador:

Haiti

Who was the 1st African American Nobel Peace Prize winner:

Ralph J. Bunche

Who was the 1st African American Woman U.S. ambassador:

Patricia Harris

Who was the 1st African American U.S. Representative to the UN:

Andrew Young, 1977.

Who was the youngest African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Martin L. King

What was the 1st African American U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment,

1st Rhode Island Regiment,

Who was the 1st African American Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy:

Robert Smalls

Who was the 1st African American Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard

Who was the 1st African American General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

Who was the 1st African American Woman general:

Hazel W. Johnson

Who was the 1st African American Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy

Janie L. Mines

Who was the 1st African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

Colin Powell

Who was the 1st African American Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy:

Lillian Fishburne

When did the US Naval accept it’s 1st African American?

September 1872

Who was the US Naval 1st African American? James Henry Conyers

Who were the 1st African American Fighter Pilots in the US Air Force?

The Tuskegee Airmen

Who was the 1st African American soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War?

Milton Lee Olive III

What did Milton Lee Olive III do to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam?

He threw himself on a grenade, sacrificing himself and to save the lives of his comrades.

Who was the 1st African American woman to command an Air Force Flying Squadron?

Col Stayce Harris

Who was the 1st African American Patent holder? Thomas L. Jennings

Who was the 1st African American Physician? James Derham

What year did Thomas L Jennings get his 1st patent?

1821

Who was the 1st African American Woman Dentist? Ida Gray

Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. degree?

James McCune Smith

What was the 1st National Monument dedicated to an African American?

The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri

When was the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri dedicated?

1953

Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School?

David Jones Peck

Who was the 1st African American Woman to receive an M.D. degree?

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

What African American was the 1st to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science?

Clarence “Skip” Ellis

Who was the 1st African American Woman patent holder?

Judy Reed

What invention did Judy Reed get the patent for? A “dough Kneader and roller.

Who was the 1st African American Female Dental Surgeon?

Ida Gray Nelson Rollins

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned hospital:

Provident Hospital

Who founded the 1st Black owned hospital? Daniel Hale Williams.

What year was Provident Hospital, the 1st Black owned hospital founded?

1891

Who was the 1st African American Heart surgery pioneer?

Daniel Hale Williams

Who was the 1st African American Developer of the blood bank?

Dr. Charles Drew

Who was the 1st African American Member of the National Academy of Sciences?

David Harold Blackwell

Who was the 1st African American Astronaut? Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.

Who was the 1st African American Implantation of heart defibrillator?

Levi Watkins, Jr.

Who was the 1st African American Astronaut to travel in space?

Guion Bluford

Who was the 1st African American Head of the National Science Foundation?

Walter E. Massey

Who was the 1st African American Woman astronaut?

Mae Jemison

Who was the 1st African American President of the American Medical Association?

Lonnie Bristow

1. Who was the 1st African American College graduate (B.A.)?

Alexander Lucius Twilight

Who was the 1st African American Graduate of an Ivy League School?

Theodore Sedgewick Wright

What year did Theodore S. Wright graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary?

1828

Who was the 1st African American College professor?

Charles Lewis Reason

Who was the 1st African American Woman to complete 4 years of collegiate study from a college?

Lucy Stanton

Who Was the 1st African American woman to earn a B.A. degree college?

Mary Jane Patterson

Who was the 1st African American College president?

Daniel A. Payne

What was the 1st African American Non-white public high school?

Paul Lawrence Dunbar High

Who was the 1st African American Ph.D.? Edward A. Bouchet

Who was the 1st African American Elected to Phi Beta Kappa?

George Washington Henderson

Who was the 1st African American Rhodes scholar? Alain L. Locke

Name 3 of the 1st African American Women Ph.D's:

Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes

Who was the 1st African American Ivy League University president?

Ruth Simmons

What year was Ruth Simmons assigned to Brown University, an Ivy League School?

2001

Who was the 1st African American to receive an honorary degree from Harvard?

Booker T. Washington

Who was the 1st African American Poet? Lucy Terry

Who was the 1st African American Published autobiography?

Briton Hammon

Who was the 1st African American Poet (published)?

Phyllis Wheatley

Who was the 1st African American Recognized artist?

Joshua Johnston

Who was the 1st African American Woman's autobiography?

Jarena Lee

Who was the 1st African American Male Novelist? William Wells Brown

Who was the 1st African American Woman novelist?

Harriett Wilson

Who was the 1st African American Recognized photographer?

James Conway Farley

Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize winner?

Gwendolyn Brooks

Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize winner in Drama?

Charles Gordone

Who was the 1st African American Nobel Prize for Literature winner?

Toni Morrison

Who was the 1st African American Poet to read at a Presidential Inauguration?

Maya Angelou

What poem did Maya Angelou read at Bill Clinton’s Inauguration?

“On the Pulse of Morning”

What poet was the 1st African American to pass the Florida Bar exam?

James Weldon Johnson

Who wrote the 1st Novel by an African American to be bought by Hollywood?

Frank Yerby

What was the 1st African American Newspaper? Freedom's Journal

Who published the 1st African American Magazine? David Ruggles

What was the 1st African Daily newspaper? New Orleans Tribune,

Who started the 1st family owned African American Newspaper?

John H. Murphy

What was the name of the 1st family owned African American Newspaper?

The Afro-American

Who was the 1st African American War Correspondent?

Ralph W. Tyler

Who was the 1st African American Anchor of a TV Morning News Show?

Bryant Gumbel

What African American magazine is a Mass Circulation Magazine?

Ebony

What year did Ebony 1st appear? 1945

Who was Ebony’s creator? John H. Johnson

What other magazine did John H. Johnson publish? Jet

What was the 1st African American Published musical composition?

Francis Johnson

What was the 1st African American Theatrical company?

The African Company.

Who is the 1st African American Nationally recognized dance performer?

William Henry Lane (Master Juba)

Who was the 1st African American Member of the New York City Opera?

Todd Duncan

Who was the 1st African American Member of the Metropolitan Opera Company?

Marian Anderson

What honor was given to Marian Anderson in 2005? A commemorative stamp was issues in her honor.

Who was the 1st African American Male Grammy Award winner?

Count Basie

Who was the 1st African American Woman Grammy Award winner?

Ella Fitzgerald

Who was the 1st African American Principal dancer in a major dance company:

Arthur Mitchell,

What was the 1st Singing Group to perform Spirituals throughout the world?

The Fisk Jubilee Singers

Who was the 1st Composer of Gospel Hymns? Charles A. Tindley

Who was the 1st Great Jazz Composer? Jelly Roll Morton

Who founded the 1st Gospel Publishing Company? Thomas Dorsey

Who was the 1st African American vocalist to sing with a white orchestra?

Lena Horne

Who was the 1st African American Country Music Star?

Charley Pride

What was the 1st African American film company? Lincoln Motion Picture Company

Who was the 1st African American Film director? Oscar Micheaux

Who was the 1st African American Oscar winner? Hattie McDaniel

For what movie did Hattie McDaniels win her Oscar?

Gone with the Wind

Who was the 1st African American to earn an Honorary Oscar?

James Baskett

Who was the 1st African American Tony Award Winner?

Juanita Hall

What Broadway play did Juanita Hall win a Toy Award for?

South Pacific

Who was the 1st African American to win an Oscar for, Best Actor?

Sidney Poitier

Who was the 1st African American Director for a major Hollywood studio?

Gordon Parks

Who was the 1st African American Oscar, Best Actress?

Dorothy Dandridge

What is the name of the film that Hallie Berry won an Oscar for?

Monster’s Ball

Who was the 1st African American First President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars)?

Cheryl Boone Isaacs

Who was the 1st African American Hollywood Star? Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry better known as Stepin Fetchit

Who was the 1st African American Movie Cowboy? Herb Jeffries

Who was the 1st African American Radio broadcaster?

Jack L. Cooper

What was the 1st Black-owned radio station? WERD

Who purchased the 1st Black owned radio station? Jesse B. Blayton, Sr.

Where was the 1st Black owned radio station located?

Atlanta Georgia

Who was the 1st African American Network television show host?

Nat King Cole

Who was the 1st African American Star of a network television show?

Bill Cosby

What was the 1st African American Black-owned television station?

WGPR-TV

Who was the 1st African American Evening News Anchorman?

Max Robinson

What TV station was Max Robinson Anchor of? ABC Evening News

Who was the 1st African American Woman television show host?

Oprah Winfrey

What did Oprah Winfrey do in January 2007, in Henley-on-Klip, South Africa:

Built The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls

What was the 1st all Black TV sitcom? Amos & Andy

In 2012, what TV sitcom surpassed The Jefferson’s as the longest-running sitcom with a predominately African American cast in the history of American television in terms of number of episodes?

Tyler Perry’s House of Payne

Who was the 1st African American woman to make the final four on the TV Show The Apprentice 5 with Donald Trump?

Roxanne Tessa Lisa Wilson

What was the 1st Black college to train radio engineers?

Howard University

Who was the 1st African American Jockey to Win Kentucky Derby:

Oliver Lewis

Who was the 1st African American Professional baseball player:

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Who was the 1st African American Professional Golfer:

John Matthew Shippen, Jr.

Who was the 1st African American World cycling champion:

Marshall W. "Major" Taylor

Who was the 1st African American Olympic medalist (Summer games):

George Page

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Summer games):

John Baxter "Doc" Taylor

Who was the 1st African American World Heavyweight boxing champion:

Jack Johnson

Who was the 1st African American NFL football coach:

Fritz Pollard

Who was the 1st African American Professional Race Car Driver,

Rajo Jack De Soto

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual):

DeHart Hubbard

Who was the 1st African American Major league baseball player in the 20th Century:

Jackie Robinson

Who was the 1st African American Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual):

Alice Coachman

Who was the 1st African American NFL quarterback:

Willie Thrower

Who was the 1st African American Wimbledon tennis champion:

Althea Gibson

Who was the 1st African American NHL hockey player:

Willie O'Ree

Who was the 1st African American NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race:

Wendell Oliver Scott,

Who was the 1st African American Male tennis champion:

Arthur Ashe

Who was the 1st African American Professional Bowlers Association Champion:

George Branham III

Who was the 1st African American Olympic medalist (Winter games):

Debi Thomas

Who was the 1st African American Golf champion: Tiger Woods

Who was the 1st African American Chess Grandmaster:

Maurice Ashley

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Winter games):

Vonetta Flowers

Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual):

Shani Davis

Who is the 1st African American NFL coach to win a Super bowl:

Tony Dungy

Who was the 1st African American NBA coach to win a Championship:

Bill Russell

Who was the 1st African American Founder of the Baptist Church?

David George.

What was the name of the first African American Church?

Silver Bluff Baptist Church

What was the name of 1st African American African Episcopal (AME) Church?

Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794.

Where is Mother Bethel AMEC located? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

What was the 1st Church-Sponsored African American College?

Wilberforce University,

What year was Wilberforce founded? 1856

Where is Wilberforce located? Ohio.

What is the name of the 1st African American Episcopal Church Bishop?

James Theodore Holly

Who founded the 1st African American Pentecostal Faith Revival?

William J. Seymour

What was the name of the 1st African American Pentecostal church?

Azusa Street Revival.

What was the name of the National Black Catholic Fraternal Order?

Knights of St. Peter Claver

Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church?

Barbara Harris

When was Barbara Harris, the 1st African American Episcopal Bishop chosen?

1989

Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church:

Vashti Murphy McKenzie,

What year was Vashti McKenzie chosen? 2000

Who was the 1st President of the Southern Baptist Convention,

Fred Luter, Jr.

What year was Fred Luter Jr, the 1st President of the Southern Baptist Convention chosen?

2012

Who was the 1st African American Chaplin commissioned in the Army?

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Who was the 1st African American to head a predominantly white religious denomination?

Rev William G. Sinkford

Who was the 1st African American Chaplin at Yale University?

Rev Frederick Jerome Streets

Who were the 1st African American Landowners? Anthony and Mary Johnson

What was the name of the 1st African American Black-owned insurance company?

The African Insurance Company

What was the name of the 1st Black Labor Union? American League of Colored Laborers

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned Bank? True Reformers Bank

What was the name of the 1st Black-owned resort? Highland Beach, Maryland

When did the 1st Black owned resort The Highland Beach Resort open?

1893

Who was the 1st African American Millionaire? Robert Abbott

How did Robert Abbot, the 1st African American Millionaire make his money?

He founded the newspaper The Chicago Defender

What was the 1st African American Automobile manufacturing company?

C.R. Patterson & Sons

What was the first African American Record Company?

Black Swan Records

What was the name of the 1st African American Black-owned Youth Camp?

Camp Atwater

Who was the founder of the 1st Black-owned metropolitan newspaper?

Robert Maynard

What was its name of the 1st Black owned metropolitan newspaper?

The Oakland Tribune

Who was the 1st African American Billionaire? Robert Johnson, 2001

What did Robert Johnson own? Black Entertainment Television.

Who was the 1st African American Explorer of the North Pole?

Matthew Henson

What year did Matthew Henson explore the North Pole?

1909

Who was the 1st African American Secret Service Agent?

Charles LeRoy Gittens

Who was the 1st African American Licensed Pilot? Bessie Coleman

5. Who was the 1st African American Explorer of the South Pole?

George Gibbs

When did George Gibbs explore the South Pole? 1939–1941

Who was the 1st African American Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship?

Hugh Mulzac

Who was the 1st African American Pilot for a commercial airline?

Perry Young, Jr.

What was the name of the airline that Perry Young, the 1st African American commercial pilot worked for?

New York Airways

Who was the 1st African American Flight Attendant?

Ruth Carol Taylor

What was the name of the airline that Ruth Carol Taylor the 1st African American Flight attendant worked for?

Mohawk Airlines

Who was the 1st African American President of Girl Scouts, USA?

Gloria Dean Randall Scott

Who was the 1st African American Woman commercial airline pilot?

Jill Elaine Brown

Who was the 1st African American Miss America? Vanessa Williams

Who was the 1st African American to sail solo around the world?

William Pinkney

Who was the 1st African American Miss USA? Carole Ann-Marie Gist

Who was the 1st African American President of the National League of Women Voters?

Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins

Who was the 1st African American President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)?

Lois Jean White

Who was the 1st African American to fly around the orld?

Barrington Irving

Who was the 1st African American female Explorer, North Pole?

Barbara Hillary

Who is the African American that is 2nd in command now for HUD and was appointed as Deputy Secretary of that agency by President Barack Obama in 2009?

Ronald Cordell Sims

Who is NASA’s 1st permanent black administrator that was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009?

Charles Frank Bolden Jr

Who is the current and 1st African American woman to serve as the National Security Advisor and was appointed by President Barack Obama?

Susan Rice

Who was the African American Woman who was born into slavery and gained emancipation for herself and extended family by going to District court?

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

Who is the 1st and only female buffalo soldier, who also was the only documented African American woman to serve in the regular army in the 19th century?

Cathay Williams

Who was the 1st African American woman to charter and form a bank in the US.

Maggie Lena Walker

Name a Historically African American college in Normal, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Alabama A & M ; *It started out being named Huntsville Normal School

Name a Historically African American college in Montgomery, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Alabama State ; *One famous alumnus is Rosa Parks

Name a Historically African American college in Fairfield, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Miles College; *A notable alumnus is U..S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, Alabama's first black federal judge.

Name a Historically African American college in Huntsville, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Oakwood University ; *One prominent alumnus is R&B musician Brian McKnight

Name a Historically African American college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Stillman College - *Stillman abegan as a school that would train black men to become ministers.

Name a Historically African American college in Talladega, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Talladega College *It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ

Name a Historically African American college in Tuskegee, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.

Tuskegee University *It was the first black college to be designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark (1966), and is the only black college to be designated as a National Historic Site.

Name a Historically African American college in Daytona, Florida and give 1 historical fact about it.

Bethune-Cookman University - *Bethune-Cookman Institution achieved University status in early 2007.

Name a Historically African American college in Jacksonville, Florida and give 1 historical fact about it

Edward Waters College-*Its current name honors the third bishop of the AME Church

Name a Historically African American college in Dallas, Texas and give 1 historical fact about it

Paul Quinn College - *The institution was named for Bishop Paul Quinn who presided over the AME Church in the western states for nearly 30 years

Name a Historically African American college in Columbia, South Carolina and give 1 historical fact about it

Allen University; * *It is the oldest historically black college in the state, founded in 1870 by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

Name 5 of the oldest AME Churches, the city they are located in & the year they were founded

1. St Mark AMEC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 1869 ; 2. First AMEC, Seattle, Washington; 1886 *Bishop J.H. Adams pastored this church in 1962 ; 3. Trinity AMEC, Salt Lake City, Utah; 1890 ; 4. Bethel AMEC, Portland, Oregon; 1889 ; 5. Grant AMEC, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 1883

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Alabama and give a fact about them.

* Selma: Brown Chapel AME Church This church served as a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965, and it played a major role in events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Arkansas and give a fact about them.

* Little Rock: Little Rock Central High School This is where the first major confrontation over the implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Supreme Court ruling occurred, in 1957.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of California and give a fact about them.

* Los Angeles: The Bridget "Biddy" Mason Monument This monument honors one of the first prominent citizens and landowners in Los Angeles during the 1850s and 1860s. Mason, a former enslaved person, founded First African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Connecticut and give a fact about them.

* Farmington: Austin F. Williams Carriage house This site served as living quarters for the Amistad Africans on their way back to Africa, and as a “station” on the Underground Railroad.

Name 2 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of District of Columbia and give a fact about them.

* Washington: John Philip Sousa Junior High School This school stands as a symbol of the lengthy conflict that ultimately led to the racial desegregation of public schools by the Federal government in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Florida and give a fact about them.

* Palm Beach: Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Grave This is the burial site of approximately 674 victims, primarily African American agricultural workers, who were killed in the hurricane of 1928 that devastated South Florida. It was one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Georgia and give a fact about them.

* Albany: Mount Zion Baptist Church Constructed in 1906, this brick church served as the religious, educational, and social center of Albany's African American community, especially during the Civil Rights Movement.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Illinois and give a fact about them.

* Chicago: Oscar Stanton DePriest House This house was the residence of the first black American elected to the House of Representatives from a northern state.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Kansas and give a fact about them.

* Topeka: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site This is the site of two Topeka schools: Monroe Elementary School and Sumner Elementary School. Both played a significant role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Louisiana and give a fact about them.

* Springfield: Carter Plantation In 1817, Thomas Freeman became the first African-American man to own property in Livingston Parish when he acquired the pine forest in this area that he would transform into what has come to be known as the Carter Plantation

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of New Jersey and give a fact about them.

*Red Bank: T. Thomas Fortune House This National Historic Landmark was where former slave and leading black activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune lived from 1901-1915.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of New Jersey and give a fact about them.

* New York City: Dunbar Apartments This apartment complex, constructed in 1926, is located in Harlem. Labor reformer and unionist Asa Philip Randolph, one of many influential African Americans who lived at the Dunbar Apartments, helped to battle racism in American industry.

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Ohio and give a fact about them

* Wilberforce: Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument President Obama designated this site a National Monument in 2013. It is where Colonel Charles Young, the first African American to achieve the rank of colonel in the U.S. army, lived from 1864-1922. It preserves his post-Civil War military legacy. 35

Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the state of Tennessee and give a fact about them

*Memphis: Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Built between 1940 and 1945, Mason Temple served as a focal point of civil rights activities in Memphis during the 1950s and 1960s. It was here that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his prophetic "Mountaintop" speech on the eve of his assassination.

The AMEC grew out of the Free African Society (FAS)

TRUE

The AMEC was established in 1786 False - 1787

Richard Allen walked out of St Matthews Church when officials pulled blacks off their knees while praying.

No. They walked out of St. George Methodist Episcopal Church

In 1794 Bethel AME was dedicated with Richard Allen as pastor.

TRUE

In 1807 & 1815 Richard Allen sued and lost the right of his congregation to exist as an independent institution.

False. He successfully won.

Richard Allen and others met in a barn to have service.

No. They met in Blacksmith Shops

Bishop Edward Waters established the Canada Annual Conference.

False - Bishop Morris Brown

By 1880 membership of the AME church reached 400,000 because of its rapid spread below the Mason-Dixon Line.

TRUE

The AME Church was established in 2 continents when Bishop Henry M. Turner pushed African Methodism into Liberia and Sierra Leone and South Africa.

True

Today the African Methodist Episcopal Church has membership in 22 Episcopal Districts in 35 countries on 6 continents.

False - 20 Episcopal Districts, 39 Countries, and 5 Continents

The General Conference meets every 4 years at the place of its beginning, Mother Bethel in Philadelphia.

False - The General Conference meets every 4 years, but not at Mother Bethel in Philadelphia,

Anybody can vote on changes in the discipline at the general Conference.

FALSE

Delegates to the General conference are elected by their Annual Conference delegates.

True

The Council of Bishops meets every 4 years during the time of the General Conference.

False. The Council of Bishops meet annually.

The Board of Incorporators is also known as the General Board of Trustees.

TRUE

The Judicial Council members are elected to the Council.

TRUE

“African” in African Methodist Episcopal means that only persons of color can be a member and hold office.

FALSE - The word African means the church was organized by people of African descent and heritage.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church is governed by rules and regulations.

FALSE. It is goverend by the AMEC Doctrine and Discipline.

The Chief Executives of the AME Church are the Bishops.

True

Bishops are appointed by the Council of Bishops. FALSE

The Apostle’s Creed is what AME’s believe. TRUE

AME’s do not believe in the Holy Trinity. FALSE

The African Methodist Episcopal members believe in 23 Articles of Faith.

False - There are 35 Articles of Faith

The AME Motto is God the Father, Christ the Redeemer, the Holy Spirit the Comforter, Man and Woman the Family.

False. It is "God Our Fahterk Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family.'

Bishop Allen J. Richardson is the Presiding Prelate of the 11th Episcopal District.

True

Bishop Richardson is the 115 elected and concentrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

TRUE

The 11th Episcopal District has 7 Conferences. False - The 11th Episcopal District has 6 Conferences.