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African American History Intro
African American History Intro
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These questions serve as an introduction to an African American history course.
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1
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Carter G. Woodson
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jesse Jackson
2
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Pilot
Policeman
Postman
Astronaut
3
Whose proposal to Congress about civil rights legislation led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
4
Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gavrilo Princip
John Wilkes Booth
James Earl Ray
5
Who said this?
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Homer Plessy
Malcolm X
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
6
Where was Malcolm X killed?
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
Massachusetts State Prison
His house in Queens
Downtown Boston
7
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Larry Doby
Satchel Paige
Jackie Robinson
Ernie Banks
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Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
William Henry Hastie
Clarence Thomas
Charles Hamilton Houston
9
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
Richard Theodore Greener
Thurgood Marshall
W.E.B. Du Bois
10
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
B.B. King
Aretha Franklin
Louis Armstrong
11
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Carol Mosley Braun
Edward Brooke
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
12
Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Jesse Owens
Michael Johnson
Carl Lewis
Maurice Greene
13
Who said this?
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X
Frederick Douglass
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Who signed The Emancipation Act?
James Buchanan
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
15
An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
16
The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?
Lee Elder
Charles Sifford
Pete Brown
Tiger Woods
17
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
Hair straightening system
Lip stick
Dry cleaning process
Folding bed
18
At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 1 million
About 4 million
About 2 million
About 500,000
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Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Sidney Poitier
Halle Berry
Hattie McDaniel
Dorothy Dandridge
20
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
1862
1872
1867
21
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Charleston, South Carolina
Jackson, Mississippi
Greensboro, North Carolina
Atlanta, Georgia
22
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
23
What did African Americans gain in the United States after ratification of the 15th Amendment?
Voting rights
Right to citizenship status
Freedom from slavery
The right to sit anywhere they want
24
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ralph Bunche
Albert John Lutul
25
Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?
Negro History Week
Freedom Day
Black Rights Awareness Day
Slave History Week
