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Trivia on Black History Month
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1
The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?
Charles Sifford
Tiger Woods
Lee Elder
Pete Brown
2
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Astronaut
Pilot
Army General
Policeman
3
At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 2 Million
About 500,000
About 4 million
About 1 Million
4
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the USA?
Right to Citizenship Status
Right to Sit Anywhere
Freedom from Slavery
Voting Rights
5
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
Lip Stick
Dry-Cleaning Process
Folding Bed
Hair Straightening System
6
Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?
Freedom Day
Negro History Week
Slave History Week
Black Rights Awareness Day
7
An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Medgar Evers
Emmett Till
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
8
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Larry Doby
Ernie Banks
Satchel Paige
Jackie Robinson
9
Whose proposal did Congress consider civil rights resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
10
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Albert John Lutul
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Ralph Bunche
11
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
Charles Hamilton Houston
Thurgood Marshall
W. E. B. Du Bois
Richard Theodore Greener
12
Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Maurice Greene
Jesse Owens
Michael Johnson
Carl Lewis
13
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
William Henry Hastie
Charles Hamilton Houston
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
14
Where was Malcolm X killed?
His House, Queens
Massachusetts State Prison
Downtown Boston
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
15
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Rosa Parks
W.E.B. Du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr.
16
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
1862
1872
1867
17
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Carter G. Woodson
Malcolm X
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr.
18
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Halle Berry
Sidney Poitier
Dorothy Dandridge
Hattie McDaniel
19
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Carol Mosley Braun
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
Edward Brooke
20
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
Aretha Franklin
Louis Armstrong
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
B.B. King
21
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Atlanta, Georgia
Jackson, Mississippi
Greensboro, North Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
22
Who signed The Emancipation Act?
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
23
Who shot Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968?
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
Gavrilo Princip
John Wilkes Booth
24
Who established the first non-indigenous settlement of Chicago?
Sally Bayne
Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable
Joseph Moreno
Pedro Alonso Nino
25
What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?
Birmingham Times
Freedom's Journal
Our Times
The Mississippi Enterprise
