Black History 3

Question 1

In what year did the first Black Senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, took his seat as the first Black elected to congress

Accepted Answer

1870

Question 2

In what year was 14 year old Emmitt Till beaten and lynched?

Accepted Answer

1955

Question 3

The store where 4 black students from North Carolina , sat and were denied service thus beginning sit-in demonstration

Accepted Answer

Woolworth

Question 4

What statement is inscribed on the monument of Sojourner Truth located in Michigan?

Accepted Answer

“Is God dead?

Question 5

Which women was known as “angel of the Rockies”, was a former slave from Kentucky and the owner of several gold mines

Accepted Answer

Clara Brown

Question 6

He is known as the “Father of Black Baseball”

Accepted Answer

Andrew “Rube” Foster

Question 7

In 1960, this group conducted the first “sit-in” at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, north Carolina

Accepted Answer

Black college students

Question 8

This African general conquered Spain and Italy around 200 BC and is on of the greatest military strategist of all times.

Accepted Answer

Hannibul

Question 9

Harriet Tubman, the most famous Black conductor on the Underground Railroad, was born in this state

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 10

In 1964, the 24th Amendment was ratified abolishing this practice

Accepted Answer

Poll Tax

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