J.C.T.O.D Black History Month Questions

Question 1

What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”

Accepted Answer

Ernie Banks

Question 2

who was the first African American in space

Accepted Answer

Guion Bluford Jr.

Question 3

Known as the Father of rock and roll

Accepted Answer

Chuck Berry

Question 4

No African-American ever earned the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

The Dred Scott decision gave Congress the right to regulate slavery in the territories.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Bell played played as a center fielder in Negro leagues from 1922 to 1944

Accepted Answer

James "Cool Papa" Bell

Question 7

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

Accepted Answer

Cassius Clay

Question 8

In New York State, before the Civil War, a free black man could vote if he owned $250 worth of property.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

who became one of the first influential Black poets in American literature

Accepted Answer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 10

Was the Freedman's Savings Bank established before or after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

After

Question 11

Who was the first African American Doctor

Accepted Answer

James Durham

Question 12

Segregation ended in 1968

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

Accepted Answer

Woolworth's

Question 14

In 1860, a year before the start of the Civil War, there were about 4 million slaves in the South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

In what year was slavery abolished in the British Empire?

Accepted Answer

1833

Question 16

Slaves in early America could be bought and sold at the discretion of their masters.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 18

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

Accepted Answer

CORE-Congress of Racial Equality

Question 19

In the antebellum South, free blacks did not enjoy the right of trial by jury.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Who was the first African American Nurse

Accepted Answer

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Question 21

There were no African-American newspapers before the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What was Dr. Martin Luther Jr's. Father's Church

Accepted Answer

Ebenezer Baptist

Question 23

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?

Accepted Answer

Department store seamstress

Question 24

Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?

Accepted Answer

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Question 25

Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?

Accepted Answer

Stokely Carmichael

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