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History Challenge

Week 2 Trivia Questions and Answers

Congrats to Ronnie Seay for winning the Week 2 drawing!

1. In what year was the Negro Baseball League founded?
ANSWER: 1920

2. Who was the first Black athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics? When?
ANSWER: Debi Thomas, 1988

3. Who was the first Black actor to win an Emmy? When and for what TV show?
ANSWER: Harry Belafonte, "Tonight with Belafonte"

4. Why was Muhammad Ali arrested in 1967?
ANSWER: Refusing induction into armed services

5. Who was the first Black president of Morehouse College? When?
ANSWER: John Hope, 1906

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