Black History Quiz Bowl Part #4

Question 1

Who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816, one of the first independent black denominations in the US?

Accepted Answer

Richard Allen

Question 2

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice, known for victories in Brown v. Board of Education and others?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 3

Who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus nine months before Rosa Parks?

Accepted Answer

Claudette Colvin

Question 4

Who was a 19th-century civil rights activist and educator, known for efforts to desegregate Philadelphia's streetcars?

Accepted Answer

Octavius Catto

Question 5

Who was a prominent civil rights leader who served as executive director of the NAACP for over 20 years?

Accepted Answer

Roy Wilkins

Question 6

Who was a key organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and a close advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.?

Accepted Answer

Bayard Rustin

Question 7

Who was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license, breaking barriers in aviation?

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 8

Who was the first African American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South?

Accepted Answer

Ruby Bridges

Question 9

Whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 10

Who was a leading African American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist, co-founder of the NAACP?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

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