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Week 2 Trivia Questions and Answers

1. Who was the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State, and when did she serve?
ANSWER: Condoleezza Rice, from 2005-present

2. Who was the first Black woman to dunk during a professional game in the Women’s National Basketball Association? What year?
ANSWER: Lisa Leslie, in 2002

3. What year did the NBA become integrated?
ANSWER: The 1950-1951 season

4. Who was the first Black person to refuse to give up their seat to a white person on the segregated buses, and on what date?
ANSWER: Rosa Parks, on December 1, 1955

5. What events stemmed from the arrest of the person in question number 4 above?
ANSWER: A bus boycott, which eventually ended December 21, 1956 with the desegregation of the bus system.

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