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African American Firsts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 65 times
- The average score is 8 of 25
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The first African American US President (2009) | Barrack Obama | 98%
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| The first African American US Vice President (2021) | Kamala Harris | 74%
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| The first African American woman (or woman of any race, for that matter) to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987) | Aretha Franklin | 67%
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| The first African American man to win Wimbledon (1975) | Arthur Ashe | 59%
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| The first African American Secretary of State (2001) | Colin Powell | 59%
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| The first African American woman Secretary of State (2005) | Condoleezza Rice | 59%
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| The first African American Supreme Court Justice (1967) | Thurgood Marshall | 59%
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| The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress (2002) | Halle Berry | 57%
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| The first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (1963) | Sidney Poitier | 52%
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| The first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1993) | Toni Morrison | 37%
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| The first African American to win an Academy Award (1939) | Hattie McDaniel | 28%
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| The first African American millionaire (actually first woman self-made millionaire recorded in the US) (by 1917) | Madame C.J. Walker | 22%
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| The first African American to be invited to dine at the White House (1901) | Booker T. Washington | 17%
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| The first African American Attorney General (2009) | Eric Holder | 17%
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| The first African American to run for president of the United States (1968) | Shirley Chisholm | 17%
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| The first African American author to be published (1773) | Phillis Wheatley | 13%
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| The first African American US Senator (1870) | Hiram Revels | 11%
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| The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950) | Gwendolyn Brooks | 4%
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| The first African American astronaut to go into space (1983) | Guion Bluford | 2%
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| The first African American Olympic gold medalist (1908) | John Taylor | 2%
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| The first African American 4-star general in the US Marine Corps (2022) | Michael Langley | 2%
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| The first African American Nobel Laureate (1950) | Ralph Bunche | 2%
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| The first African American to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963) | Ralph Bunche | 2%
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| The first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) | Richard Greener | 2%
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| The first African American to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (1958) | Tommy Edwards | 2%
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