International Club Black History Month

Question 1

Marsha Johnson was an African American transgender woman who was a powerful activist, spearheading the...

Accepted Answer

Stonewall Riots

Question 2

The March on Washington (where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his &#x27;I Have a Dream&#x27; speech) was in

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1963

Question 3

In 1948, Alice Coachman became the first African American woman to...

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Win an Olympic Gold Medal

Question 4

In 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first African American kid to desegregate an elementary school

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson denied the constitutionality of racial segregation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

The Little Rock Nine was a group of African Amerian high school students who attended an all-white school

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Madam C.J. Walker was the first African American female...

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Millionaire in America (through a hair care products business)

Question 9

Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old girl in Mongomery, Alabama, who in 1955...

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Refused to give her seat on the bus to a white person

Question 10

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to...

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Orbit into space on the shuttle Endeavor

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