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A #history project where we go over #black history.
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1
Who shot Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4
th
, 1968?
John Wilkes Booth
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gavrilo Princip
2
Who refused to sit in the back of the bus in 1955?
Beyonce
Rosa Parks
Aretha Franklin
Coretta Scott King
3
The PGA was considered “Caucasian Only” until which golfer joined?
Tiger Woods
Lee Elder
Pete Brown
Charles Sifford
4
Who was the first black president?
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
George Washington
John F Kennedy
5
Who was the founder of BET?
Robert Johnson
Debra L. Lee
Tamela Pan
Taraji P. Henson
6
Who was the first black Supreme Court Justice?
William Gooding
Lawrence Fishburne
Martin Lawrence
Thurgood Marshall
7
Who was considered the “Father of Black History?”
Jesse Jackson
Carter G. Woodson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
8
What was MLK Jr. about?
Violence to violence
Violence to peace
Peace to violence
Peace to peace
9
Who was the first black Secretary of State?
Delquan Richardson
Colin Powell
Barack Obama
Kanye West
10
First black singer?
Tina Turner
Aretha Franklin
Janet Jackson
Ella Fitzgerald
11
First black start of a network TV show?
Bill Cosby
Denzel Washington
Will Smith
Kevin Hart
12
Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Georgia
Missippi
Vermont
Kentucky
13
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
4 years
A month
Three months
One year
14
Where was the first “sit-in” at a segregated lunch counter?
Greensboro, North Carolina
Atlanta, Georgia
Charleston, South Carolina
Jackson, Mississippi
15
In what year did MLK Jr. say his famous "dream" speech?
1956
1693
1963
1989
16
Who was the first black basketball player?
Jackie Robinson
Michael Jordan
LeBron James
Earl Lloyd
17
What year wasn't MLK Jr. birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
1965
1986
1908
1925
18
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. senator?
Edward Brooke
Carol Mosley Braun
Hiram Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
19
Who said, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
YG
Beyonce
Jay-Z
20
What city was Mike Brown murdered in?
Compton, California
Ferguson, Missouri
Detroit, Michigan
Louisville, Kentucky
21
Where was Muhammad Ali born?
Louisville, Kentucky
Brooklyn, New York
Chicago, Illinois
New Orleans, Louisiana
22
How many times did Jesse Jackson run for president?
8 times
Twice
Once
4 times
23
What was Malcolm X about?
Peace to violence
Violence to violence
Violence to peace
24
What shooting started the black lives matter movement?
Trayvon Martin
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mike Brown
Emmet Till
25
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
W.E.B Du Bois
Martin Luther King Jr.
Frederick Douglass
Rosa Parks
26
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Abraham Lincoln
Rosa Parks
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr.
27
Where was Malcolm X killed?
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
Massachusetts State Prison
Downtown Boston
His house, Queens
28
Interracial marriage was banned in 1664. When was it legalized?
1925
1967
1776
1806
29
An all white jury acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Medgar Evans
Emmett Till
Malcolm X
30
What year was the Million Man March?
1956
1995
1978
1992
31
Before it was called Black History Month, what was the observance of Black History called?
Freedom Day
Slave History Week
Black Rights Awareness Day
Negro History Week
32
Who signed the Emmancipation Proclamation?
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
James Buchanan
33
Who was the first African American student in a white school?
Skai Jackson
Booker T Washington
Ruby Bridges
Martin Luther King Jr.
34
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife?
Harriet Tubman
Coretta Scott
Anne Frank
Rosa Parks
35
Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Maurice Greene
Jesse Owens
Carl Lewis
Micheal Johnson
36
Who was the first black billionaire?
Serena Williams
Beyoncé
Robert Johnson
Obama
37
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
Barack Obama
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
B.B King
Arerha Franklin
38
Who was the very first black person to win a Oscar?
Beyoncé
Hattie McDaniel
Machine Gun Kelly
Kendrick Lamar
39
Who killed Trayvon Martin?
Police officer
Anthony Shahid
War
George Zimmerman
40
Where did the march start?
Virginia
Washington D.C.
Selma
Montgomery
41
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
Langston Hughes
42
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Pilot
Astronaut
Army General
Policemen
43
Who was the first black Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
Tyra Banks
Chanel Iman
Naomi Campbell
44
Who was the first black baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Tiger Woods
Michael Jordan
Chuck Cooper
45
With the 15
th
amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the US?
Freedom from Slavery
Right to Sit Anywhere
Voting Rights
Right to Citizenship Status
46
First major league baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Serena Williams
Micheal Jordan
Tiger Woods
47
What year was the Emmancipation Proclamation signed?
1954
1863
1865
1989
48
Who won the first Nobel Peace Prize?
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
Albert John Lutul
Ralph Bunche
49
Who won the first Grammy?
Iggy Azalea
Janet Jackson
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
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Who wrote “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?
Muhammad Ali
Malcolm X
MLK Jr.
Langston Huges