BSU Black History Month Trivia!

Question 1

Who was the first African American to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 2

Which civil rights activist is famous for his "I Have A Dream Speech" on August 28th, 1963?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 3

He discovered hundreds of uses for previously useless foods, and most notably, the peanut:

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 4

What war between the North and South was fought over the future of slavery in America?

Accepted Answer

The Civil War

Question 5

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 6

Who was the first African American President?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 7

When the 15th Amendment passed in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights

Question 8

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award for this movie.

Accepted Answer

Gone With the Win

Question 9

What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?

Accepted Answer

Freedom's Journal

Question 10

The Civil Rights Movement occurred in the mid-1920s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Fannie Lou Hamer is responsible for which of these famous quotes?

Accepted Answer

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

Question 12

This term means "refusing to by a good or use a service as a punishment or form of protest"

Accepted Answer

Boycott

Question 13

Mae Jemison was a doctor on what mission?

Accepted Answer

Endeavour

Question 14

Black History is only for February

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

What name was given to the escape system led by Harriet Tubman that slaves used in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

The Underground Railroad

Question 16

This person stated: "Man, if you gotta ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 17

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 18

The Supreme Court declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in this case

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Question 19

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Accepted Answer

the first African-American pilots to serve in the Air Force

Question 20

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

Accepted Answer

Greensboro, NC

Question 21

Why do we recognize Black History Month?

Accepted Answer

because it is fun, So we can learn about people in the past that paved the way., To spotlight black excellence., Because many of our history has been eraesed from history books.

BSU Black History Month Trivia!

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BSU Black History Month Trivia!

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