2020 Brainbowl Questions - Ages 7-12
Who was the 1st African American Officeholder in Matthias de Souza colonial America?
What year and what state did Matthias de Souza, 1641 & Maryland the 1st African American office holder elected?
Who was the 1st African American Municipal John Mercer Langston elected official:
What year was John Mercer Langston, the 1st 1855 African American Municipal official elected? .
What city did John Mercer Langston represent? Brownhelm Township in Ohio
Who was the 1st African American State Supreme Jonathan Jasper Wright Court Justice? What year was Jonathan Jasper Wright elected to 1870 the South Carolina Supreme Court?
Who was the 1st African American U.S. Joseph Rainey. Representative?
What year was Joseph Rainey elected as US 1870 Representative?
What party did Joseph Rainey belong to? Republican
Who was the 1st African American Governor that P.B.S. Pinchback was appointed?
What year was P.B.S. Pinchback the 1st African 1872 American governer appointed?
What State did P.B.S. Pinchback represent? Louisiana Who was the 1st elected African American Woman Crystal Bird Fauset legislator?
What year was Crystal Bird Fauset the 1st African 1938 American Woman legislator elected?
What state did Crystal Bird Fauset represent? Pennsylvania
Who was the 1st African American U.S. cabinet Robert C. Weaver member?
What year was Robert C Weaver the 1st African 1966 American U.S Cabinet member appointed?
What was Robert Weaver’s official title? Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
20. Who was the 1st African American Major party nominee for President and what year was he Sen. Barack Obama, 2008 nominated? Who was the 1st African American Admitted to the Macon B. Allen Bar:
Who was the 1st African American Woman Charlotte Ray admitted to the bar:
Who was the 1st African American Elected Mifflin W. Gibbs municipal judge:
Who was the 1st African American Editor of the Charles Hamilton Houston Harvard Law Review:
Who was the 1st African American Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie
Who was the 1st African American Woman federal Constance Baker Motley judge:
Who was the 1st African American U.S. Supreme Thurgood Marshall Court Justice: Who was the 1st African American President of the Dennis Archer American Bar Association:
Who was the 1st African American Federal William Cooper Nell Employee?
What federal job did William Cooper Nell hold? Clerk in a Boston Post Office
Who was the 1st African American Voter? Thomas Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Who was the 1st African American that served as a Wiley G. Overton, 1891 New York City policeman?
Who was the 1st to discover the Watergate break- Frank Willis, an African American Security Guard in?
Who was the 1st African American to give a Keynote speech before a Democratic National Barbara Jordan, July 1976 Convention? Who was the 1st African American woman elected Unita Blackwell, 1976 Mayor in Mississippi?
Who was the 1st African American U.S. Ebenezer D. Bassett ambassador?
To what country was Ebenezer D Bassett an Haiti ambassador:
Who was the 1st African American Nobel Peace Ralph J. Bunche Prize winner:
Who was the 1st African American Woman U.S. Patricia Harris ambassador:
Who was the 1st African American U.S. Andrew Young, 1977. Representative to the UN:
Who was the youngest African American to win the Martin L. King Nobel Peace Prize? What was the 1st African American U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its 1st Rhode Island Regiment, troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment,
Who was the 1st African American Commissioned Robert Smalls officer in the U.S. Navy:
Who was the 1st African American Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard
Who was the 1st African American General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
Who was the 1st African American Woman Hazel W. Johnson general:
Who was the 1st African American Woman to Janie L. Mines graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy
Who was the 1st African American Chairman of the Colin Powell Joint Chiefs of Staff: Who was the 1st African American Woman Rear Lillian Fishburne Admiral in the United States Navy:
When did the US Naval accept it’s 1st African September 1872 American?
Who was the US Naval 1st African American? James Henry Conyers
Who were the 1st African American Fighter Pilots in The Tuskegee Airmen the US Air Force?
Who was the 1st African American soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam Milton Lee Olive III War?
What did Milton Lee Olive III do to earn the He threw himself on a grenade, sacrificing himself and to save the lives of his Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam? comrades.
Who was the 1st African American woman to Col Stayce Harris command an Air Force Flying Squadron? Who was the 1st African American Patent holder? Thomas L. Jennings
Who was the 1st African American Physician? James Derham
What year did Thomas L Jennings get his 1st 1821 patent?
Who was the 1st African American Woman Dentist? Ida Gray
Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. James McCune Smith degree?
What was the 1st National Monument dedicated to The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri an African American?
When was the George Washington Carver National 1953 Monument in Diamond, Missouri dedicated? Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. David Jones Peck degree from a U.S. Medical School?
Who was the 1st African American Woman to Rebecca Lee Crumpler receive an M.D. degree?
What African American was the 1st to earn a Ph.D. Clarence “Skip” Ellis in Computer Science?
Who was the 1st African American Woman patent Judy Reed holder?
What invention did Judy Reed get the patent for? A “dough Kneader and roller.
Who was the 1st African American Female Dental Ida Gray Nelson Rollins Surgeon?
What was the name of the 1st Black-owned Provident Hospital hospital: Who founded the 1st Black owned hospital? Daniel Hale Williams.
What year was Provident Hospital, the 1st Black 1891 owned hospital founded?
Who was the 1st African American Heart surgery Daniel Hale Williams pioneer?
Who was the 1st African American Developer of Dr. Charles Drew the blood bank?
Who was the 1st African American Member of the David Harold Blackwell National Academy of Sciences?
Who was the 1st African American Astronaut? Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
Who was the 1st African American Implantation of Levi Watkins, Jr. heart defibrillator? Who was the 1st African American Astronaut to Guion Bluford travel in space?
Who was the 1st African American Head of the Walter E. Massey National Science Foundation?
Who was the 1st African American Woman Mae Jemison astronaut?
Who was the 1st African American President of the Lonnie Bristow American Medical Association?
1. Who was the 1st African American College Alexander Lucius Twilight graduate (B.A.)?
Who was the 1st African American Graduate of an Theodore Sedgewick Wright Ivy League School?
What year did Theodore S. Wright graduate from 1828 Princeton Theological Seminary? Who was the 1st African American College Charles Lewis Reason professor?
Who was the 1st African American Woman to complete 4 years of collegiate study from a Lucy Stanton college?
Who Was the 1st African American woman to earn Mary Jane Patterson a B.A. degree college?
Who was the 1st African American College Daniel A. Payne president?
What was the 1st African American Non-white Paul Lawrence Dunbar High public high school?
Who was the 1st African American Ph.D.? Edward A. Bouchet
Who was the 1st African American Elected to Phi George Washington Henderson Beta Kappa? Who was the 1st African American Rhodes scholar? Alain L. Locke
Name 3 of the 1st African American Women Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes Ph.D's:
Who was the 1st African American Ivy League Ruth Simmons University president?
What year was Ruth Simmons assigned to Brown 2001 University, an Ivy League School?
Who was the 1st African American to receive an Booker T. Washington honorary degree from Harvard?
Who was the 1st African American Poet? Lucy Terry
Who was the 1st African American Published Briton Hammon autobiography? Who was the 1st African American Poet Phyllis Wheatley (published)?
Who was the 1st African American Recognized Joshua Johnston artist?
Who was the 1st African American Woman's Jarena Lee autobiography?
Who was the 1st African American Male Novelist? William Wells Brown
Who was the 1st African American Woman Harriett Wilson novelist?
Who was the 1st African American Recognized James Conway Farley photographer?
Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize Gwendolyn Brooks winner? Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize Charles Gordone winner in Drama?
Who was the 1st African American Nobel Prize for Toni Morrison Literature winner?
Who was the 1st African American Poet to read at Maya Angelou a Presidential Inauguration?
What poem did Maya Angelou read at Bill Clinton’s “On the Pulse of Morning” Inauguration?
What poet was the 1st African American to pass James Weldon Johnson the Florida Bar exam?
Who wrote the 1st Novel by an African American to Frank Yerby be bought by Hollywood?
What was the 1st African American Newspaper? Freedom's Journal Who published the 1st African American Magazine? David Ruggles
What was the 1st African Daily newspaper? New Orleans Tribune,
Who started the 1st family owned African American John H. Murphy Newspaper?
What was the name of the 1st family owned The Afro-American African American Newspaper?
Who was the 1st African American War Ralph W. Tyler Correspondent?
Who was the 1st African American Anchor of a TV Bryant Gumbel Morning News Show?
What African American magazine is a Mass Ebony Circulation Magazine? What year did Ebony 1st appear? 1945
Who was Ebony’s creator? John H. Johnson
What other magazine did John H. Johnson publish? Jet
What was the 1st African American Published Francis Johnson musical composition?
What was the 1st African American Theatrical The African Company. company?
Who is the 1st African American Nationally William Henry Lane (Master Juba) recognized dance performer?
Who was the 1st African American Member of the Todd Duncan New York City Opera? Who was the 1st African American Member of the Marian Anderson Metropolitan Opera Company?
What honor was given to Marian Anderson in 2005? A commemorative stamp was issues in her honor.
Who was the 1st African American Male Grammy Count Basie Award winner?
Who was the 1st African American Woman Ella Fitzgerald Grammy Award winner?
Who was the 1st African American Principal dancer Arthur Mitchell, in a major dance company:
What was the 1st Singing Group to perform The Fisk Jubilee Singers Spirituals throughout the world?
Who was the 1st Composer of Gospel Hymns? Charles A. Tindley Who was the 1st Great Jazz Composer? Jelly Roll Morton
Who founded the 1st Gospel Publishing Company? Thomas Dorsey
Who was the 1st African American vocalist to sing Lena Horne with a white orchestra?
Who was the 1st African American Country Music Charley Pride Star?
What was the 1st African American film company? Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Who was the 1st African American Film director? Oscar Micheaux
Who was the 1st African American Oscar winner? Hattie McDaniel For what movie did Hattie McDaniels win her Gone with the Wind Oscar?
Who was the 1st African American to earn an James Baskett Honorary Oscar?
Who was the 1st African American Tony Award Juanita Hall Winner?
What Broadway play did Juanita Hall win a Toy South Pacific Award for?
Who was the 1st African American to win an Oscar Sidney Poitier for, Best Actor?
Who was the 1st African American Director for a Gordon Parks major Hollywood studio?
Who was the 1st African American Oscar, Best Dorothy Dandridge Actress? What is the name of the film that Hallie Berry won Monster’s Ball an Oscar for?
Who was the 1st African American First President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Cheryl Boone Isaacs Sciences (The Oscars)?
Who was the 1st African American Hollywood Star? Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry better known as Stepin Fetchit
Who was the 1st African American Movie Cowboy? Herb Jeffries
Who was the 1st African American Radio Jack L. Cooper broadcaster?
What was the 1st Black-owned radio station? WERD
Who purchased the 1st Black owned radio station? Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. Where was the 1st Black owned radio station Atlanta Georgia located?
Who was the 1st African American Network Nat King Cole television show host?
Who was the 1st African American Star of a Bill Cosby network television show?
What was the 1st African American Black-owned WGPR-TV television station?
Who was the 1st African American Evening News Max Robinson Anchorman?
What TV station was Max Robinson Anchor of? ABC Evening News
Who was the 1st African American Woman Oprah Winfrey television show host? What did Oprah Winfrey do in January 2007, in Built The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls Henley-on-Klip, South Africa:
What was the 1st all Black TV sitcom? Amos & Andy
In 2012, what TV sitcom surpassed The Jefferson’s as the longest-running sitcom with a predominately Tyler Perry’s House of Payne African American cast in the history of American television in terms of number of episodes?
Who was the 1st African American woman to make the final four on the TV Show The Apprentice 5 Roxanne Tessa Lisa Wilson with Donald Trump?
What was the 1st Black college to train radio Howard University engineers?
Who was the 1st African American Jockey to Win Oliver Lewis Kentucky Derby:
Who was the 1st African American Professional Moses Fleetwood Walker baseball player: Who was the 1st African American Professional John Matthew Shippen, Jr. Golfer:
Who was the 1st African American World cycling Marshall W. "Major" Taylor champion:
Who was the 1st African American Olympic George Page medalist (Summer games):
Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold John Baxter "Doc" Taylor medalist (Summer games):
Who was the 1st African American World Jack Johnson Heavyweight boxing champion:
Who was the 1st African American NFL football Fritz Pollard coach:
Who was the 1st African American Professional Rajo Jack De Soto Race Car Driver, Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold DeHart Hubbard medalist (Summer games; individual):
Who was the 1st African American Major league Jackie Robinson baseball player in the 20th Century:
Who was the 1st African American Woman gold Alice Coachman medalist (Summer games; individual):
Who was the 1st African American NFL Willie Thrower quarterback:
Who was the 1st African American Wimbledon Althea Gibson tennis champion:
Who was the 1st African American NHL hockey Willie O'Ree player:
Who was the 1st African American NASCAR stock Wendell Oliver Scott, car driver to win a major race: Who was the 1st African American Male tennis Arthur Ashe champion:
Who was the 1st African American Professional George Branham III Bowlers Association Champion:
Who was the 1st African American Olympic Debi Thomas medalist (Winter games):
Who was the 1st African American Golf champion: Tiger Woods
Who was the 1st African American Chess Maurice Ashley Grandmaster:
Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold Vonetta Flowers medalist (Winter games):
Who was the 1st African American Olympic gold Shani Davis medalist (Winter games; individual): Who is the 1st African American NFL coach to win a Tony Dungy Super bowl:
Who was the 1st African American NBA coach to Bill Russell win a Championship:
Who was the 1st African American Founder of the David George. Baptist Church?
What was the name of the first African American Silver Bluff Baptist Church Church?
What was the name of 1st African American Mother Bethel AME Church, 1794. African Episcopal (AME) Church?
Where is Mother Bethel AMEC located? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
What was the 1st Church-Sponsored African Wilberforce University, American College? What year was Wilberforce founded? 1856
Where is Wilberforce located? Ohio.
What is the name of the 1st African American James Theodore Holly Episcopal Church Bishop?
Who founded the 1st African American Pentecostal William J. Seymour Faith Revival?
What was the name of the 1st African American Azusa Street Revival. Pentecostal church?
What was the name of the National Black Catholic Knights of St. Peter Claver Fraternal Order?
Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop Barbara Harris in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church? When was Barbara Harris, the 1st African 1989 American Episcopal Bishop chosen?
Who was the 1st African American Woman Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church:
What year was Vashti McKenzie chosen? 2000
Who was the 1st President of the Southern Baptist Fred Luter, Jr. Convention,
What year was Fred Luter Jr, the 1st President of 2012 the Southern Baptist Convention chosen?
Who was the 1st African American Chaplin Bishop Henry McNeal Turner commissioned in the Army?
Who was the 1st African American to head a Rev William G. Sinkford predominantly white religious denomination? Who was the 1st African American Chaplin at Yale Rev Frederick Jerome Streets University?
Who were the 1st African American Landowners? Anthony and Mary Johnson
What was the name of the 1st African American The African Insurance Company Black-owned insurance company?
What was the name of the 1st Black Labor Union? American League of Colored Laborers
What was the name of the 1st Black-owned Bank? True Reformers Bank
What was the name of the 1st Black-owned resort? Highland Beach, Maryland
When did the 1st Black owned resort The Highland 1893 Beach Resort open? Who was the 1st African American Millionaire? Robert Abbott
How did Robert Abbot, the 1st African American He founded the newspaper The Chicago Defender Millionaire make his money?
What was the 1st African American Automobile C.R. Patterson & Sons manufacturing company?
What was the first African American Record Black Swan Records Company?
What was the name of the 1st African American Camp Atwater Black-owned Youth Camp?
Who was the founder of the 1st Black-owned Robert Maynard metropolitan newspaper?
What was its name of the 1st Black owned The Oakland Tribune metropolitan newspaper? Who was the 1st African American Billionaire? Robert Johnson, 2001
What did Robert Johnson own? Black Entertainment Television.
Who was the 1st African American Explorer of the Matthew Henson North Pole?
What year did Matthew Henson explore the North 1909 Pole?
Who was the 1st African American Secret Service Charles LeRoy Gittens Agent?
Who was the 1st African American Licensed Pilot? Bessie Coleman
5. Who was the 1st African American Explorer of George Gibbs the South Pole? When did George Gibbs explore the South Pole? 1939–1941
Who was the 1st African American Captain of an Hugh Mulzac American Merchant Marine ship?
Who was the 1st African American Pilot for a Perry Young, Jr. commercial airline?
What was the name of the airline that Perry Young, the 1st African American commercial pilot worked New York Airways for?
Who was the 1st African American Flight Ruth Carol Taylor Attendant?
What was the name of the airline that Ruth Carol Taylor the 1st African American Flight attendant Mohawk Airlines worked for?
Who was the 1st African American President of Girl Gloria Dean Randall Scott Scouts, USA? Who was the 1st African American Woman Jill Elaine Brown commercial airline pilot?
Who was the 1st African American Miss America? Vanessa Williams
Who was the 1st African American to sail solo William Pinkney around the world?
Who was the 1st African American Miss USA? Carole Ann-Marie Gist
Who was the 1st African American President of the Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins National League of Women Voters?
Who was the 1st African American President of the Lois Jean White National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)?
Who was the 1st African American to fly around Barrington Irving the orld? Who was the 1st African American female Barbara Hillary Explorer, North Pole?
Who is the African American that is 2nd in command now for HUD and was appointed as Ronald Cordell Sims Deputy Secretary of that agency by President Barack Obama in 2009?
Who is NASA’s 1st permanent black administrator that was appointed by President Barack Obama in Charles Frank Bolden Jr 2009?
Who is the current and 1st African American woman to serve as the National Security Advisor Susan Rice and was appointed by President Barack Obama?
Who was the African American Woman who was born into slavery and gained emancipation for Bridget “Biddy” Mason herself and extended family by going to District court?
Who is the 1st and only female buffalo soldier, who also was the only documented African American Cathay Williams woman to serve in the regular army in the 19th century?
Who was the 1st African American woman to Maggie Lena Walker charter and form a bank in the US. Name a Historically African American college in Alabama A & M ; *It started out being named Huntsville Normal School Normal, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about it.
Name a Historically African American college in Montgomery, Alabama and give 1 historical fact Alabama State ; *One famous alumnus is Rosa Parks about it.
Name a Historically African American college in Miles College; *A notable alumnus is U..S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon, Fairfield, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about Alabama's first black federal judge. it.
Name a Historically African American college in Huntsville, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about Oakwood University ; *One prominent alumnus is R&B musician Brian McKnight it.
Name a Historically African American college in Stillman College - *Stillman abegan as a school that would train black men to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and give 1 historical fact become ministers. about it.
Name a Historically African American college in Talladega, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about Talladega College *It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ it.
Name a Historically African American college in Tuskegee University *It was the first black college to be designated as a Registered Tuskegee, Alabama and give 1 historical fact about National Historic Landmark (1966), and is the only black college to be designated as it. a National Historic Site. Name a Historically African American college in Bethune-Cookman University - *Bethune-Cookman Institution achieved University Daytona, Florida and give 1 historical fact about it. status in early 2007.
Name a Historically African American college in Edward Waters College-*Its current name honors the third bishop of the AME Jacksonville, Florida and give 1 historical fact about Church it
Name a Historically African American college in Paul Quinn College - *The institution was named for Bishop Paul Quinn who Dallas, Texas and give 1 historical fact about it presided over the AME Church in the western states for nearly 30 years
Name a Historically African American college in Allen University; * *It is the oldest historically black college in the state, founded in Columbia, South Carolina and give 1 historical fact 1870 by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church about it
1. St Mark AMEC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 1869 ; 2. First AMEC, Seattle, Washington; 1886 *Bishop J.H. Adams pastored this Name 5 of the oldest AME Churches, the city they church in 1962 ; 3. Trinity AMEC, Salt Lake City, Utah; 1890 ; 4. are located in & the year they were founded Bethel AMEC, Portland, Oregon; 1889 ; 5. Grant AMEC, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 1883
* Selma: Brown Chapel AME Church This church served as a starting point for the Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965, and it played a major role in events that the state of Alabama and give a fact about them. led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
* Little Rock: Little Rock Central High School This is where the first major Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in confrontation over the implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 the state of Arkansas and give a fact about them. Supreme Court ruling occurred, in 1957. * Los Angeles: The Bridget "Biddy" Mason Monument This monument honors one of Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in the first prominent citizens and landowners in Los Angeles during the 1850s and the state of California and give a fact about them. 1860s. Mason, a former enslaved person, founded First African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.
Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in * Farmington: Austin F. Williams Carriage house This site served as living quarters the state of Connecticut and give a fact about for the Amistad Africans on their way back to Africa, and as a “station” on the them. Underground Railroad.
Name 2 Historical African American Landmarks in * Washington: John Philip Sousa Junior High School This school stands as a symbol the state of District of Columbia and give a fact of the lengthy conflict that ultimately led to the racial desegregation of public about them. schools by the Federal government in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
* Palm Beach: Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Grave This is the burial site Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in of approximately 674 victims, primarily African American agricultural workers, the state of Florida and give a fact about them. who were killed in the hurricane of 1928 that devastated South Florida. It was one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
* Albany: Mount Zion Baptist Church Constructed in 1906, this brick church served Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in as the religious, educational, and social center of Albany's African American the state of Georgia and give a fact about them. community, especially during the Civil Rights Movement.
Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in * Chicago: Oscar Stanton DePriest House This house was the residence of the first the state of Illinois and give a fact about them. black American elected to the House of Representatives from a northern state.
* Topeka: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site This is the site of two Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in Topeka schools: Monroe Elementary School and Sumner Elementary School. Both the state of Kansas and give a fact about them. played a significant role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. * Springfield: Carter Plantation In 1817, Thomas Freeman became the first African- Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in American man to own property in Livingston Parish when he acquired the pine the state of Louisiana and give a fact about them. forest in this area that he would transform into what has come to be known as the Carter Plantation
Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in *Red Bank: T. Thomas Fortune House This National Historic Landmark was where the state of New Jersey and give a fact about former slave and leading black activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune lived from them. 1901-1915.
* New York City: Dunbar Apartments This apartment complex, constructed in 1926, Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in is located in Harlem. Labor reformer and unionist Asa Philip Randolph, one of many the state of New Jersey and give a fact about influential African Americans who lived at the Dunbar Apartments, helped to battle them. racism in American industry.
* Wilberforce: Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument President Obama Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in designated this site a National Monument in 2013. It is where Colonel Charles the state of Ohio and give a fact about them Young, the first African American to achieve the rank of colonel in the U.S. army, lived from 1864-1922. It preserves his post-Civil War military legacy. 35
*Memphis: Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Built between 1940 and 1945, Name 1 Historical African American Landmarks in Mason Temple served as a focal point of civil rights activities in Memphis during the the state of Tennessee and give a fact about them 1950s and 1960s. It was here that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his prophetic "Mountaintop" speech on the eve of his assassination.
The AMEC grew out of the Free African Society TRUE (FAS)
The AMEC was established in 1786 False - 1787 Richard Allen walked out of St Matthews Church when officials pulled blacks off their knees while No. They walked out of St. George Methodist Episcopal Church praying.
In 1794 Bethel AME was dedicated with Richard TRUE Allen as pastor.
In 1807 & 1815 Richard Allen sued and lost the right of his congregation to exist as an independent False. He successfully won. institution.
Richard Allen and others met in a barn to have No. They met in Blacksmith Shops service.
Bishop Edward Waters established the Canada False - Bishop Morris Brown Annual Conference.
By 1880 membership of the AME church reached 400,000 because of its rapid spread below the TRUE Mason-Dixon Line.
The AME Church was established in 2 continents when Bishop Henry M. Turner pushed African True Methodism into Liberia and Sierra Leone and South Africa. Today the African Methodist Episcopal Church has membership in 22 Episcopal Districts in 35 False - 20 Episcopal Districts, 39 Countries, and 5 Continents countries on 6 continents.
The General Conference meets every 4 years at False - The General Conference meets every 4 years, but not at Mother Bethel in the place of its beginning, Mother Bethel in Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
Anybody can vote on changes in the discipline at FALSE the general Conference.
Delegates to the General conference are elected True by their Annual Conference delegates.
The Council of Bishops meets every 4 years during False. The Council of Bishops meet annually. the time of the General Conference.
The Board of Incorporators is also known as the TRUE General Board of Trustees.
The Judicial Council members are elected to the TRUE Council. “African” in African Methodist Episcopal means that FALSE - The word African means the church was organized by people of African only persons of color can be a member and hold descent and heritage. office.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church is FALSE. It is goverend by the AMEC Doctrine and Discipline. governed by rules and regulations.
The Chief Executives of the AME Church are the True Bishops.
Bishops are appointed by the Council of Bishops. FALSE
The Apostle’s Creed is what AME’s believe. TRUE
AME’s do not believe in the Holy Trinity. FALSE
The African Methodist Episcopal members believe False - There are 35 Articles of Faith in 23 Articles of Faith. The AME Motto is God the Father, Christ the False. It is "God Our Fahterk Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Redeemer, the Holy Spirit the Comforter, Man and Humankind Our Family.' Woman the Family.
Bishop Allen J. Richardson is the Presiding Prelate True of the 11th Episcopal District.
Bishop Richardson is the 115 elected and concentrated Bishop of the African Methodist TRUE Episcopal Church.
The 11th Episcopal District has 7 Conferences. False - The 11th Episcopal District has 6 Conferences.