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1
Who was a famous African American abolitionist and author of "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Nat Turner
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
2
Which African American woman became a famous tennis player and won numerous Grand Slam singles titles?
Flo-JO
Serena Williams
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Gabby Douglas
3
Who was the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?
Kamala Harris
Condoleezza Rice
Rosa Parks
Shirley Chisholm
4
Which African American singer is known as the "Queen of Soul"?
Beyoncé
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Tina Turner
5
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False
True
6
What was the name of the famous African American jazz musician known as the "King of Swing"?
Benny Goodman
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
Duke Ellington
7
Who was the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Thomas Sowell
Andrew Young
8
Who was the first African American billionaire?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
Tyler Perry
Oprah Winfrey
Jay-Z
9
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Jesse Jackson
Barack Obama
Colin Powell
Al Sharpton
10
What year did the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom take place?
2012
1963
1970
1919
11
Which African American singer is known as the "Empress of the Blues"?
Bessie Smith
Nina Simone
Etta James
Billie Holiday
12
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Sidney Poitier
Morgan Freeman
Denzel Washington
Will Smith
13
What year was the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, declaring school segregation unconstitutional?
1870
1950
1865
1954
14
Who was the famous African American inventor of the gas mask and traffic signal?
George Washington Carver
Elijah McCoy
Benjamin Banneker
Garrett Morgan
15
Which African American woman became a famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad?
Ida B. Wells
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
16
What was the name of the first African American-owned and operated television network?
Blackstar Network
BET (Black Entertainment Television)
OWN(Oprah Winfrey Network)
TV One
17
Which African American woman refused to give up her seat on a bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Coretta Scott King
Maya Angelou
Ella Baker
Rosa Parks
18
What was the name of the first Black-owned hospital in the United States?
Tuskegee Hospital
Provident Hospital
Blackwell Memorial
Booker T. Washington Medical Center
19
What does the acronym "NAACP" stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Alliance of African American Civil Rights
National African American Civic Project
National African American Cultural Preservation
20
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Willie Mays
Dalaen Attle
Hank Aaron
Jackie Robinson
21
Who was a famous African American boxer known as "The Greatest"?
Sugar Ray Leonard
Mike Tyson
Muhammad Ali
Floyd Mayweather
22
Who was the famous African American civil rights leader who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Jesse Jackson
Malclom X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Al Sharpton
23
Who was the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Ida B. Wells
Dorothy Height
Mary McLeod Bethune
24
What year did the Civil Rights Act pass, ending segregation in public places?
1963
1964
1965
1960
25
What event did the "Selma to Montgomery" marches lead to?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The end of slavery
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
26
Which African American woman is best known for writing the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Lorraine Hansberry
27
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Jenkins
Sonia Sotomayor
Clarence Thomas
28
Who is the first African American woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Sonia Sotomayor
29
Who is known as the "Father of Black History"?
A. Philip Randolph
Dalaen Attle
Carter G. Woodson
W.E.B. Du Bois
30
What year did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
1965
1967
1960
1963
31
Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
32
What city is known for being the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance?
Chicago
New York City
Atlanta
Detroit
33
What African American inventor created the first successful electric light bulb?
George Washington Carver
Lewis Howard Latimer
Garrett Morgan
Booker T. Washington
34
Who wrote the famous poem “Still I Rise”?
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
35
Which African American athlete won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Carl Lewis
Muhammad Ali
36
Who wrote the novel "Beloved"?
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Lorraine Hansberry
Toni Morrison
37
Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Barack Obama
Toni Morrison
Ralph Bunche
38
Who was the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
Rita Dove
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
39
Who was the first African American woman to receive a pilot's license?
Bessie Coleman
Wilma Rudolph
Sally Ride
Mae Jemison
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Who was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University?
Angela Davis
Shirley Chisholm
Mae Jemison
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
