#8455, aired 2021-07-30 | CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $400: Black History Month February |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FEBRUARY $400: According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore African-American History Month |
#6862, aired 2014-06-17 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $800: A D.C. site is where Dr. Carter G. Woodson came up with Negro History Week, now expanded & renamed this Black History Month |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: In February 1977 Clifford Alexander became the first black secretary of this oldest U.S. military branch the Army |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: On Feb. 15, 1804 New Jersey became the last northern state to do this outlaw slavery |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Feb. 1948 riots in Accra sparked a movement that led to this country's becoming one of Africa's first to boot the colonists Ghana |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: At a Feb. 1957 meeting a civil rights group chose this 3-word name; "Christian" was added later in the year Southern Leadership Conference |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2,400 (Daily Double): A vessel called this historic ship "of Liberia" left the U.S. in February 1820 carrying free blacks back to Africa the Mayflower |
#6099, aired 2011-03-03 | SPECIAL MONTHS $400: Library Lovers' Month &
Black History Month February |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war" John Brown |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $800: Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line in 1947 when he was signed by this team the Dodgers |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s renaissance |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Edward & Burghardt were the middle names of this organizer of the NAACP (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In 1957 Martin Luther King helped establish this religious organization, the SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
#5104, aired 2006-11-16 | ANSWERS THAT START WITH "FEB" $400: Black History Month begins on this date February 1 |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $400: In September 2004 she made history on TV by giving a brand new car to each member of her audience Oprah (Winfrey) |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $800: Kweisi Mfume left the House of Representatives to head this civil rights organization in February 1996 the NAACP |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1200: The army's last black regiment, the 24th infantry, was disbanded in October 1951, during this war the Korean War |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional Brown |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In July 1881 this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as its first principal Tuskegee |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | FIRST OF THE MONTH $800: Black History Month begins on the first of this February |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | BLACK HISTORY MONTHS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 19th of this month is celebrated as the date Texas slaves learned of their freedom in 1865 June (Juneteenth) |
#3568, aired 2000-02-23 | MARK YOUR CALENDAR $600: Black History Month February |
#2782, aired 1996-10-08 | MONTH-LONG OBSERVANCES $500: This month is Black History Month, originated by Carter G. Woodson in 1926 February |
#1452, aired 1990-12-18 | BLACK HISTORY $200: In 1926, Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, the forerunner of this current observance Black History Month |
#1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $200: Coinciding with the birth of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln, it's Black History Month February |