MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
Martin Luther King was best known for his philosophy of
SOCIALISM
Who was the only black woman to serve as a U.S. senator?
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Which musician said this, when asked to define jazz:
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."
Louis Armstrong
Track and field star Carl Lewis won how many gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games?
8
2
Which of these major events first distinguished Martin Luther King as an important civil rights leader?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who served as poet laureate of the United States?
Maya Angelou
Who said?
"We maintain the use of the words Black Power—let them address themselves to that. We are not going to wait for white people to sanction Black Power. We're tired of waiting; every time black people try to move in this country, they're forced to defend their position beforehand. It's time that white people do that. They ought to start defending themselves as to why they have oppressed and exploited us."
Stokley Carmichael
In 1957 Althea Gibson became the first African American to do what?
She won the US Open tennis championship.
MEN
Martin Luther King was the leader of which organization?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Which of these dancers became the director of a major American dance company?
Josephine Baker
Who said?
"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."
Stokley Carmichael
Stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing induction into the U.S. military, Muhammad Ali regained the heavyweight championship on October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), with an eighth-round knockout of which prizefighter?
Joe Frazier
How many performances were there for our black night live?
14
Martin Luther King received a Ph.D. from Boston University in what field?
political science
Which journalist and civil rights leader crusaded against lynching?
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Who said?
"What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.. . . There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour."
Malcolm X
What do African-American football players Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin, and Tony Dorsett have in common?
Gail Devers
Who is the best actor/actress in the family?
Temi
In 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. What famous work did he write during that time?
Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community
Which of these opera singers became the first African American to become a permanent member of the Metropolitan Opera Company?
Leontyne Price
Who said?
‘’We, the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document [the Preamble to the US Constitution] was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that ’We, the people.’ I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in ’We, the people.’"
Carter Woodson
Which track and field star overcame childhood polio to become one of the greatest athletes of her time?
Baltimore Orioles
Who are the parents of the black family
Maro, Temi and Anita