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1
Which civil rights activist was one of the first leaders of SNCC?
John Lewis
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
Stockley Carmichael
2
Who was the first black person to become UN Ambassador?
Bill Campbell
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Andrew Young
Manyard Hartsfield Jackson
3
Who was the black philosopher that came up the theory of "double consciousness"?
W.E.B Dubois
Cornell West
Franz Fanon
Michael Eric Dyson
4
Which abolitionist worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison?
Thurgood Marshall
Frederick Douglass
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
5
Who was the first black conquistador?
Simon Bolivar
Vicente Guerrero
Juan Garrido
Jose San Martin
6
What year did Black History Month
officially
begin?
1976
1865
1964
1989
7
Which black performer found huge success in the French entertainment scene during the 1920's?
Halle Berry
Dorothy Dandridge
Josephine Baker
Eartha Kitt
8
Which black author wrote the book "The Souls of Black Folk"?
Jaqueline Woodson
W.E.B Dubois
Jason Reynolds
James Baldwin
9
Who was the first black navy diver?
Colin Powell
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Carl Brashear
Jack Johnson
10
Who was the first black actor to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards collectively)
Jennifer Hudson
Denzel Washington
Viola Davis
Whoppi Goldberg
11
Who was the first black American to become Secretary of State?
Condelessa Rice
Colin Powell
Douglas McArthur
Eric Blackshear
12
Who was the first black woman to be selected to US Congress?
Kamala Harris
Condoleezza Rice
Fannie Lou Hamer
Shirley Chisholm
13
What was the name of W.E.B Dubois's newspaper?
The Crisis
The North Star
A Dream Deferred
The Liberator
14
Who was the black American that died during the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
John Paul Jones
Nat Turner
Marquis Lafayette
15
Who was primary black figure most credited for starting the Civil Rights era?
Ralph Abernathy
Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
16
Who was the first black author to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Langston Hughes
17
Which black activist founded the Black Star Line?
Robert F. Smith
Barack Obama
Marcus Garvey
Kofi Annan
18
Who was widely considered the leader of the Harlem Renaissance?
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neal Hurston
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes
19
Which city was Louis Armstrong based in?
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Chicago
New York
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Which city was the last to receive news that slavery ended in 1865?
Charlotte
Birmingham
Galveston
Atlanta
