Black History Month Quiz

In the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education of 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?

All of these Black icons have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, EXCEPT:

Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?

With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the U.S.?

Who was the first black student to attend a white elementary school?

What year did the first school desegregate (allowing black students to attend white schools)?

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

What album won Kendrick Lamar the Pulitzer Prize for music?

Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

How old would Martin Luther King Jr. be today if he was still alive?

What Black LGBTQ musician had the most searched for remix of 2019?

At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

What year were black and white people legally allowed to get married in the US?

Who signed The Emancipation Proclamation?