1. Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? 3 2. How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? 9 3. Who was the first African to arrive in America? 10 4. Who was the first black saint? 12 5. Who was the first black president in North America? 14 6. Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? 16 7. Who was the first black explorer of the North American Southwest? 18 8. Which slave literally wrote his way to freedom? 20 9. What was the first black town in North America? 23 10. Who was George Washington's runaway slave? 25 11. Who was the first black person in the United States to lead a back to Africa effort? 28 12. Who was the first black person to see the baby Jesus? 31 13. Where was the first black town in what is now the United States? 34 14. What happened to the forty acres and a mule that former slaves were promised? 37 15. Were slaves actually eaten by dogs? 40 16. Where was the first Underground Railroad? 44 17. What was the second Middle Passage? 46 18. How much did the cotton industry shape American history and the lives of enslaved Africans? 48 19. How much African ancestry does the average African American have? 51 20. Who originated the concept of the talented tenth black leadership class? 54 21. Who was the first African-American fighter pilot? 57 22. Did black people own slaves? If so, why? 60 23. How did Harriet Tubman become a legend? 65 24. When did black literature begin to address African-American sexuality? 69 25. Is most of what we believe about the Underground Railroad true? 73 26. Did Russia's Peter the Great adopt an African man as his son? 77 27. Were Alexander Pushkin's African roots important to him? 80 28. Was Jackie Robinson court-martialed? 84 29. What were the largest slave rebellions in America? 88 30. What were the biggest acts of betrayal within the enslaved community? 93 31. What is one of the most novel ways a slave devised to escape bondage? 98 32. Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? 102 33. Were there any successful slavery escapes by sea? 107 34. How was black support enlisted for World War II, when the armed services were segregated? 112 35. How did the Black Sambo memorabilia that is collected today come to be? 117 36. Who was Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case? 121 37. What is Juneteenth? 126 38. Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? 130 39. Did black combatants fight in the Battle of Gettysburg? 135 40. Before Emancipation, didn't most free blacks live in the northern half of America? 140 41. Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? 145 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? 149 43. Which massacre resulted in a Supreme Court decision limiting the federal government's ability to protect black Americans from racial targeting? 154 44. Which episode of racial violence destroyed the community known as the Black Wall Street? 159 45. How could integrating information about the fight for civil rights into K-12 curricula better educate our children and foster a real conversation on race? 164 46. Which civil rights leader and gay barrier-breaker was kept in the shadows by the civil rights movement establishment? 167 47. Did Martin Luther King, Jr., improvise in the Dream speech? 172 48. Which enslaved African managed to press his case for freedom all the way to the White House? 177 49. Who was history's wealthiest person? 182 50. Who was the first black poet in the Western world? 186 51. Who was the founder of Chicago? 190 52. What's the real story of the legendary mixed-race slave trader Joel Rogers called Mongo John? 194 53. How did the story of Solomon Northup, the author of Twelve Years a Slave, first become public? 199 54. Skryť popis