Please submit your answers to the Chair (aalh@omega10thdistrict.org) by the end of the month.
Make sure you give your full name and your chapter.

QUEst #1:  I was the first to be admitted membership in the National Press Club.

I provided the all white press with color with my Blackness, who am I?

ANS: Louis Lautier

Source: http://thelastchancecafe.blogspot.com/2007/02/feb-5th-1956-louis-lautier-became.html

 

QUEst #2:  I was the first Black to be issued the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor.

I was colored and although shot several times, I kept the colors flying high in more ways than one way, who am I?

ANS: William H. Carney

Source: http://www.isomedia.com/homes/bhd2/william_carney.htm

 

QUEst #3:  I am known as the father of the Underground Railroad. 

All aboard the Black express, who am I?

ANS: William Still

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Still

 

 

QUEst #4:   I was the first Black woman to be named a White House Fellow.

 Look out white boys, a sister is in the house! Who am I?

ANS: Barbara W. Hancock

Source: http://www.dayinblackhistory.com/showarticle3133.aspx