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1
Who was the first African American elected to the United States Senate in 1870 during Reconstruction?
Hiram Revels
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Duke Ellington
2
The group of black high school students who integrated their local high school in 1957 were known as the
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders
Jackson Five
Chicago Eight
3
George Washington Carver, scientist and inventor, was most famously known for finding
Uses for peanuts
Uses for bread
Uses for wheat
Uses for corn
4
Which of the following escaped from slavery and went on to become a famous author, orator, and abolitionist?
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
5
Clevelander Garret Morgan is famous for inventing the _____.
Outdoor Thermometer
Traffic Light
Barometer
Cell phone
6
Who was the first African American justice on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
Barack Obama
Johnnie Cochran
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Who triggered a boycott by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?
Madam C.J. Walker
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Harriett Tubman
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Before becoming President, what political role did Barack Obama have?
Vice-President
Senator from Illinois
Mayor of Chicago
Governor of Illinois
9
Why is Juneteenth (June 19th) celebrated?
To remember the end of the Civil War.
To remember the passage of the Voting Rights Act
To remember the Emancipation Proclamation
To remember the final end of slavery in the US.
10
In
Hidden Figures
, what woman was a NASA "human computer" who helped to achieve John Glenn's space orbit?
Daisy Bates
Althea Gibson
Dr. Alexa Canady
Katherine Gobels Johnson
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Who was the first black baseball player in Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Larry Dolby
Willy Mays
Hank Aaron
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Who was the first African American to win an individual gold medal in swimming at the Olympics?
Simone Manuel
Michelle Carter
Simone Biles
Jill Bakken
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Who gave the " I have a dream speech" during the March on Washington in 1963?
Thurgood Marshall
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
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Who was one of the major founders of the first Civil Rights organization, the NAACP?
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Stokely Carmichael
15
What black woman helped hundreds of slaves in the south escape to freedom?
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Sarah Grimke
16
Who is the first black women to be ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association?
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Helen Tilden
Althea Gibson
17
The "Brown Decision" of 1954 was an important decision by the US Supreme Court that addressed
voting rights
seating on buses
segregation of schools
segregation of housing
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Who was the first self-made black millionaire?
Beyonce
Madam C.J. Walker
Sean "Diddy" Combs
Oprah Winfrey
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Black History is celebrated in the month of...
February
July
January
October
20
Who is the first black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre?
Janet Collins
Michaela DePrince
Misty Copeland
Lauren Anderson
21
What African-American writer told the story of her early life in her autobiography
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
22
Who was the first African America to travel in space?
Alan Shepherd
Sally Ride
Ronald McNair
Mae Carol Jemison
23
What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Trail of Tears
The Underground Railroad
All of the above
The Northwest Passage
24
What famous athlete is known for this saying, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Michael Jordan
Jim Brown
Muhammad Ali
Jesse Owens
