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Black History Trivia
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1
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
2
Who refused to move to the back of the bus for a White person?
Sarah Keys
Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks
Mary Louise Smith
3
SNCC member Stokely Carmichael formed the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. What was its symbol?
The letters MLK
A black panther
A balance scale
A raised fist
4
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
5
Human history actually began in Africa. All human beings are likely to have African ancestors?
True
False
6
Who was the wealthiest man in the world?
Yasseen Mansour
Mansa Musa
Jeff Bezos
Mandingo
7
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
DaBrat
Lauren Hill
Foxy Brown
Missy Elliot
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What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”
Ernie Banks
Sammy Sosa
Hank Aaron
Willie Mays
9
What is a Poll Tax?
a fee to keep electricity on
a voting fee
a legal way to keep African Americans from voting in southern states.
All of the above
10
Who was the first African American to perform a successful Open Heart Surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Ben Carson
Dr. Charles Drew
Dr. Patricia Bath
11
The US developed math, engineering, architecture, medicine, agriculture, & philosophy.
True
False
12
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
Ebenezer Baptist
Atlanta Tabernacle
Elizabeth Baptist
Atlanta Southern Baptist
13
Who invented the first clock?
Egyptians
Benjamin Banneker
Christiaan Huygens
Galileo
14
Africans had already been in the world 231 years before slavery.
True
False
15
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
S.S. Kresge
W.T. Grant
Woolworth's
G.C. Murphy
16
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Marcellus Moore
Aaron Brown
Leviticus Lewis
Cassius Clay
