Black History Month Quiz 1

What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?

Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?

All of these Black icons have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, EXCEPT:

What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?

Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?

Who signed The Emancipation Act?

Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the U.S.?

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?

In the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education of 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that: