Black History Month Trivia

Which president signed a bill in 1984 designating the third Monday of January of each year as a holiday in honor of MLK?

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

Plessy vs Ferguson was the US Supreme Court decision that created the legal fiction of "separate but equal"?

Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?

What type of music did Louis Armstrong help establish as the nation's first highly popular Black art form?

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted black Americans citizenship and equal protection under law?

What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring?

Which President officially recognized Black History Month?

Barack Obama was our first African-American President.

Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?

In the American Revolution, African Americans fought only on the colonial side.

What Black American said, "The content of one's character is the important thing, not the color of their skin"?

The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all times?

The Montgomery bus boycott was one event during the Civil Rights Era?

NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.

What secret escape system did Harriet Tubman use to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom?

Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wiz?

When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his "I Have A Dream" speech?

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that opened all public schools to black students?