Which of the following prominent African Americans does NOT have a ship named after him/her?
1. Langston Hughes
2. George Washington Carver
3. Booker T. Washington
4. Harriet Tubman
Langston Hughes
Liberty Ships were cargo ships built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and were named after prominent deceased Americans. Of the 2,711 Liberty Ships built, 17 were named after African Americans. These were Robert S. Abbott, Robert J. Banks, George Washington Carver, William Cox, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, John Hope, James Weldon Johnson, George A. Lawson, John Merrick, John H. Murphy, Edward A. Savoy, Harriett Tubman, Robert L. Vann, James K. Walker, Booker T. Washington, Bert Williams. Langston Hughes did not have a ship named after him.
Who was the Black man and the first settler of what would become Chicago?
1. Du Sable
2. Cortez
3. York
4. Estevan
Du Sable
Jean-Baptiste-Point du Sable, a Black man from Haiti, was a frontier trader, trapper and farmer and was also the discoverer and first resident of what is now Chicago.
Who was the physician, chemist and scholar who became the first African American woman in space in 1991?
1. Phyllis Wheatley
2. Ella Stewart
3. Aime James
4. Mae Jamison
Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and NASA astronaut who was also the first African American woman to travel in space. She went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry and serve as a biochemist?
1. Harriet Tubman
2. Mary Mahoney
3. Mary Maynard Daly
4. Patricia Bath
Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly was an American biochemist and the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Who was the first Black inventor to receive official recognition for his invention?
1. Thomas W. Stewart for the mop holder
2. Elijah McCoy for the automatic lubricator
3. Hyram S. Thomas for the potato chips
4. Henry Blair for the corn harvester
Henry Blair for the corn harvester
The first Black inventor to receive official recognition was Henry Blair of Maryland. He received a patent for a corn harvester on October 14, 1834.
What young Black woman invented the sanitary napkin belt?
1. Mary Kenner
2. Nancy McLean
3. Kenya Morris
4. Carolyn Murry
Mary Kenner
On May 15, 1956, Mary Kenner was awarded a patent for her invention of the sanitary belt. She was only 18 years old. About three years later Kenner was awarded another patent for inventing a sanitary belt that was constructed with a moisture proof napkin pocket.
Who was the Black engineer, draftsman and inventor who worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison?
1. George Brock
2. Thomas W. Stewart
3. J. A. Sweeting
4. Lewis Latimer
Lewis Latimer
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell employed Lewis Latimer, then a draftsman, to draft the necessary drawings required to receive a patent for Bell's telephone. In 1881 Lewis Latimer was issued his own patent for the electric lamp, and in 1882 he was issued a patent for the “process of manufacturing carbons” (the filament used in incandescent light bulbs). Around 1885 he was hired by Thomas Edison and began improving upon his boss’s invention.
Who was the African American physician who performed the first prototype open-heart surgery?
1. Frank A. Brown
2. Ernest Everett Just
3. Daniel Hale Williams
4. Charles Drew
Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams is the first person to perform an open-heart surgery; but it is also noteworthy that he was the first surgeon to open the chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of infection.
Who is the African American physician, surgeon and medical researcher known as the inventor of the blood bank?
1. Ernest Everett Just
2. Frank A. Brown
3. Charles Drew
4. Daniel Hale Williams
Charles Drew
Charles Drew was an African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
Who was the Greek historian who traveled through Africa and wrote its history?
1. Alexander
2. Nostradamus
3. Herodotus
4. Caesar
Herodotus
Herodotus was the Greek historian who travelled through Africa and documented what he saw, making his observations the earliest history of the regions he visited. 2440 years ago he became the first person to describe Egyptians as having Black skin and wooly hair.
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