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Week 1 Trivia Questions and Answers
1. Who was the first Black U.S. Senator?
ANSWER: Hiram R. Revels
2. When was the NAACP formed? What event was it formed in response to? ANSWER: February 12, 1909, as a response to the lynching of two Black men in Springfield, Ill. The NAACP was called for, especially by many northerners, as a venue to discuss social and political equality for Blacks in America.
3. Who was the first Black mayor of a major city? What city? When?
ANSWER: Carl Stokes in Cleveland, OH, from 1967-1971
4. Who was the first Black person to win an Oscar? In what year? For what role? ANSWER: Hattie McDaniel, in 1940, for Best Supporting Actress in Gone With the Wind
5. Who was the first Black billionaire? The first Black woman billionaire? What years? ANSWER: Robert Johnson, 2001 and Oprah Winfrey, 2003
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