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1
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
Blind Tom Wiggins
Aretha Franklin
Louis Armstrong
BB King
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What was the first African American owned and operated newspaper?
Birmingham Times
The Mississippi enterprise
Freedom's journal
Our Times
3
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
Richard Theodore Greener
W.E.B Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
Charles Hamilton Houston
4
Who established the first non-indigenous settlement of Chicago?
Sally Bayne
Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable
Joseph Moreno
Pedro Alonso Nino
5
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner?
Albert John Lutul
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King jr.
Ralph Bunche
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Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Halle Berry
d. Dorothy Dandridge
Sidney Poitier
Hattie Mc Daniel
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The 15th Amendment in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United states?
Voting rights
Freedom from Slavery
Right to sit anywhere
Right to citizenship status
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Where was Malcolm X killed?
Massachusetts State Prison
Downtown Boston
His house, in Queens
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
9
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified abolishing slavery?
1865
1872
1862
1867
10
Before it became Black History month what was the observance of Black History called?
Freedom Day
Negro History Week
Slave History Week
Black Rights Awareness Day
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Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Blanche K. Bruce
Carol Mosley Braun
Hiram Revels
Edward Brooke
12
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Pilot
Army General
Astronaut
Policeman
13
Sarah Goode was the first African American Woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
Hair straightening system
lip stick
Folding bed
Dry Cleaning process
14
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Martin Luther King jr.
Carter G. Woodson
Malcolm X
Jessee Jackson
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Where was the first "sit-in at a segregated lunch counter?
Jackson Mississippi
Charleston south Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Atlanta Georgia
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Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Charles Hamilton Houston
Clarence Thomas
Thrgood Marshall
William Henry Hastie
17
Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?
John Wilkes Booth
James Earl Ray
Gavrilo Princip
Lee Harvey Oswald
18
At it's height, what was the slave population in U.S?
1 million
500,000
2 million
4 million
19
Who broke three track and field world record in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Carl Lewis
Michael Johnson
Maurice Greene
Jesse Owens
20
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B Du Bois
21
Whose proposal congress considered for the civil rights legislation, Civil rights Act of 1964?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Martin Luther King Jr
22
The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?
Pete Brown
Tiger Woods
Lee Elder
Charles Sifford
23
Who signed The Emancipation Act?
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
24
Who was the first African american Major League baseball player?
Ernie Banks
Satchel Paige
Larry Doby
Jackie Robinson
25
An all white jury acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Medgar Evers
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King Jr.
MalcolmX