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1
Who set world records in three different track events at the 1935 Olympic Games?
Jesse Owens
Ted Corbitt
Usain Bolt
George Coleman Poage
2
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball and win the Most Valuable Player Award.
False
True
3
What famous boxer was born with the name Cassius Clay?
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
George Foreman
4
Who was the first Black woman to serve in Congress?
Carole Mosely Braun
Kamala Harris
Shirley Chisholm
Katie Hall
5
Who was the first president to recognize Black History Month?
Ulysses S. Grant
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barack Obama
Gerald Ford
6
Which Michael Jackson album is the second best-selling album of all time?
Bad
Dangerous
Thriller
Invincible
7
What is the name of the female gymnast who won a total of three metals in Rio 2016 Summer Olympics?
Simone Biles
Aly Raisman
Jordan Chiles
Gabby Douglas
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W.E.B DuBois was a prominent African American civil rights activist, scholar, and co-founder of what organization?
Anti-Defamation League
NAACP
National Black Justice Coalition
ACLU
9
Who won 3 gold medals in track and field at the 1960 Olympics, and was then declared the fastest woman in the world?
Wilma Rudolph
Florence Griffith Joyner
Allyson Felix
Alice Coachman
10
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of what Washington, D.C., location?
White House
U.S. Capitol
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
11
Which artist is remembered as the “Queen of Jazz”?
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Beyonce
Nina Simone
12
The term R&B was coined in the 1940's by Billboard Magazine as an abbreviation for "Rhythm and Beats"
True
False
13
What was the first year the federal government officially counted black workers in the U.S. Census?
1890
1860
1870
1965
14
Rather than adhere to nonviolence, which leader famously pursued civil rights “by any means necessary”?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
John Lewis
Medgar Evers
15
The FBI declared which group a communist organization and an enemy of the U.S. government?
Socialist Party of America
The Black Panther Party
Niagara Movement
NAACP
16
In 1967, who became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
James Clyburn
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Clarence Thomas
17
What group of students was famous for challenging school segregation in the deep South?
Little Rock Nine
Birmingham Eight
Atlanta Eight
Ruby Bridges and the New Orleans Seven
18
Who wrote “Lift Every Voice & Sing,” aka the African American National Anthem?
Sam Cooke
James Weldon Johnson
Kirk Franklin
Otis Redding
