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1
Who founded the first major Black American nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa?
Marcus Garvey
Samuel Ward
Richard Wright
Malcom X
2
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President or Vice President?
Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Jordan
Kamala Harris
Mary McLeod Bethune
3
Who is the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Halle Berry
Hattie McDaniel
Viola Davis
Angela Bassett
4
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Audre Lorde
5
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light
J.P. Knight
Garrett Morgan
Granville Woods
Elijah McCoy
6
In what decade did young African Americans start hip-hop music?
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
7
MARIE VAN BRITTAN BROWN INVENTED WHAT SAFETY FEATURE?
home security system
airbag
fire alarm
seat belt
8
Who is recognized as the first professional black baseball players?
Moses “Fleetwood” Walker
Larry Doby
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
9
Who said "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."?
Danny Glover
Samuel L. Jackson
Morgan Freeman
Denzel Washington
10
WHO HAS WON THE MOST GRAMMYS FOR A MALE SOLO ARTIST AT 22 GRAMMYS?
Smoky Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Jay Z
Kanye West
11
Which Supreme Court case stated that "separate but equal" was legal and constitutional ?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
12
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
Ida B. Wells
Phillis Wheatley
13
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
14
What was the first historically black college in the United States?
Howard University
Cheyney University
Wiley College
Lincoln University
15
NAT TURNER IS KNOWN FOR WHAT HISTORICAL EVENT IN AUGUST OF 1831?
start of the underground railroad
biggest successful slave rebellion
haitian revolution
Boston Massacre
16
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Powell v. Alabama
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Shelley v. Kraemer
Michigan v. Tucker
17
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until 1964 and formed the Org. of Afro-American Unity
Martin Luther King Jr.
James Baldwin
Malcom X
Fannie Lou Hamer
18
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Annie Malone
Miriam Benjamin
Mary Kenner
Madame CJ Walker
19
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Ruby Bridges
Claudette Colvin
Nicki Minaj
Rosa Parks
20
AVA DUVERNAY DIRECTED WHICH NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL WHICH WON MULTIPLE CRITICS' CHOICE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS?
When they See Us
13th
Get Out
Us
21
Which boxer had influence the idea of "Playing the Dozens" that gave rise to modern rap culture?
Floyd Mayweather
Muhammad Ali
Joe Louis
Mike Tyson
22
When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?
1963
1957
1926
1923
23
Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?
She was the first black female astronaut
Invented America’s first clock
Her calculations helped NASA’s space program
Secretary for the Department of Defense
24
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
President Ronald Regan
President Gerald Ford
President Richard Nixon
President Jimmy Carter
25
Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?
The train conductor
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
26
Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Frederick Douglass
Malcom X
George Washington Carver
27
THOMAS JENNINGS WAS THE FIRST BLACK MAN TO RECEIVE A PATENT IN 1821 FOR INVENTING WHAT?
laundry mat
dry cleaning
iron
laundry machine
28
WHO WAS TOLD "BYE" IN THE MOVIE "FRIDAY"
Christian
Felicia
Angela
These grades
29
Which civil rights leader said the following: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Martin Luthor King Jr.
Fannie Lou Hammer
Ella Baker
Malcolm X
30
WHAT IS CITED AS ONE OF THE PRIMARY FACTORS IN BEGINNING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat
Cold War
the murder of Emmett Till
segregation
31
Who was the first African American women to win five Grammys in one year?
Foxy Brown
Lauryn Hill
Beyonce
Missy Elliot
32
WHO WAS THE FIRST RAPPER TO VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE?
Jay Z
Kendrick Lamar
Drake
Eazy E
33
WHICH COMEDIAN TURNED ACTOR HAS BEEN NOTED FOR PLAYING MULTIPLE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN THE SAME FILM?
Mike Myers
Eddie Murphy
Kevin Hart
Tyler Perry
34
What was the first historically black college in America
Wiley College
Lincoln University
Howard University
Cheyney University
35
When was the BLM movement founded?
2015
2020
2013
2008
36
First black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour?
Bessie Coleman
Katherine Johnson
Stephanie Wilson
Mae C. Jemison
37
Who was the first person to refuse to give up her seat on the bus?
Dorothy Height
Jo Ann Robinson
Rosa Parks
Claudette Coleman
38
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
Emmet Till
George Stinney
Isaac Woodward
Medgar Evers
39
What is the 2021 Black History Month theme?
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
African Americans and the Vote
The Crisis in Black Education
Civil Rights in America
40
WHO IS THE LEGENDARY FILM DIRECTOR BEHIND THE FILMS POETIC JUSTICE, BABY BOY, HIGHER LEARNING, AND BOYZ N THE HOOD?
Tyler Perry
Spike Lee
Ryan Coogler
John Singleton
41
Who is known as the father of Black History?
Carter G. Woodson
W.E.B DuBois
James H. Cone
Martin Luther King Jr.
42
Who was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University and become a U.S. Senator
Blanche Bruce
Thurgood Marshall
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Colin Powell
43
Who is one of the most prominent black scientist of the 20th century who promoted alternative crops to cotton?
Elijah McCoy
Lewis Howard Latimer
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
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Who are the founders of NAACP?
Lillian Wald
Henry Moskowitz
Ida B. Wells
All of the above
