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African American Studies Quiz
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1
Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?
Stokely Carmichael
John Lewis
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Bobby Seale
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Stokely Carmichael, SNCC member, helped form the Freedom Organization in Al. Its symbol was?
A raised fist
A balance scale
The letters MLK
A black panther
3
An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Medgar Evers
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
4
What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”
Bob Gibson
Hank Aaron
Ernie Banks
Willie Mays
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What was the name of MLK Jr.'s father's church?
Ebenezer Baptist
Atlanta Southern Baptist
Atlanta Tabernacle
Southern Church of the People
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Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Albert John Lutul
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ralph Bunche
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Where was Malcolm X killed?
Massachusetts State Prison
His House, Queens
Downtown Boston
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
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Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
Charles Hamilton Houston
William Henry Hastie
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What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Leviticus Lewis
Marcellus Moore
Cassius Clay
Aaron Brown
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9/25Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
Aretha Franklin
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
B.B. King
Louis Armstrong
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At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 4 million
About 500,000
About 1 Million
About 2 Million
12
4 African American college students staged a sit-in that integrated this store's lunch counter.
Woolworth's
W.T. Grant
S.S. Kresge
G.C. Murphy
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What labor union helped build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
American Federal of Teachers
Communications Workers of America
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
14
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Atlanta, Georgia
Greensboro, North Carolina
Jackson, Mississippi
Charleston, South Carolina
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1/25Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Satchel Paige
Larry Doby
Jackie Robinson
Ernie Banks
16
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
17
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Halle Berry
Sidney Poitier
Hattie McDaniel
Dorothy Dandridge
18
At the time of her historic bus incident, Rosa Parks occupation was what?
High School Cafeteria Worker
Department Store Seamstress
Hospital Orderly
Drugstore Clerk
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Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Carol Mosley Braun
Hiram Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
Edward Brooke
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10/25What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1872
1867
1865
1862
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Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Coretta Scott King
Rosa Parks
Fannie Lou Hamer
Maya Angelou
