Black History Month GHS

Question 1

Before there was Rosa Parks, a teenager refused to give up her seat on a bus, her name was

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Claudette Colvin

Question 2

American Karate champion Linda Denley was nicknamed...

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The Texas Terror

Question 3

What was the famous Black Power organization that was founded in 1966?

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Black Panther Party

Question 4

What baseball player became the the first African American player in Major League History on April 15, 1947

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Jackie Robinson

Question 5

What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”

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Ernie Banks

Question 6

Stokely Carmichael was instrumental in forming the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. What was its symbol?

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A black panther

Question 7

Singer and actress Eartha Kitt’s most famous songs were…

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“C’est si bon” and “Santa, baby”

Question 8

The Freedom Riders rode buses throughout the South in 1961 to protest segregation. One famous Freedom Rider was:

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John Lewis

Question 9

Allyson Felix won 12 gold medals in track and field just 10 months after what other accomplishment?

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Giving birth

Question 10

Who was the first African American to receive a vote for president at a major political party convention?

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Frederick Douglass

Question 11

Who is the youngest person ever to write and perform a poem at a presidential Inauguration?

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Amanda Gorman

Question 12

Henry T. Sampson is famous for inventing...

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The gamma electric cell phone

Question 13

Which of these people did not found the Black Lives Matter movement?

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Breonna Taylor

Question 14

Before changing his name to Muhammad Ali, what was his name?

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Cassius Clay

Question 15

What was Malcolm X’s birthname?

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Malcolm Little

Question 16

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

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Woolworth's

Question 17

Dr. Carter G. Woodson was an African American historian who...

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Created Black History Month

Question 18

The 15th Amendment gives

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African Americans the right to vote

Question 19

What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?

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Ebenezer Baptist

Question 20

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?

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Department Store Seamstress

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