Iconic Figures
Question: Who was the first African American to serve as the President of the United States?
Answer: Barack Obama
What were Jim Crow laws?
Answer: Laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination, primarily in the Southern United States.
Question: What was the name of the movement aimed at ending racial segregation on public buses in the United States?
Answer: The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Question: This sprinter won four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Answer: Who is Jesse Owens?
True or False: Did a Black person invent the three-position traffic signal?
Answer: True! Garrett Morgan.
Question: What famous African American activist refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Answer: Rosa Parks
Question: What types of public facilities were segregated under Jim Crow laws?
(name two different public facilities to get the full points)
Answer: Schools, buses, trains, restaurants, restrooms, and drinking fountains, among others.
Question: What was the main goal of the sit-in movement that emerged in the early 1960s?
Answer: To protest segregation at lunch counters and other public facilities.
Question: This boxer, nicknamed "The Greatest," won an Olympic gold medal and became the first to win the heavyweight title three times.
Answer: Who is Muhammad Ali?
Question: True or False: Lewis Howard Latimer invented the carbon filament for the electric light bulb.
Answer: True.
Question: Who was the founder of the Black Panther Party?
Answer: Huey P. Newton
Question: What landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the _________ for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.
Answer: March on Washington
Question: This basketball player, often called "The Black Mamba," won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Answer: Who is Kobe Bryant?
Question: True or False: Lonnie Johnson invented the first practical and commercially successful refrigerator.
Answer: False. (The correct answer is Frederick McKinley Jones)
Question: Which African American scientist is credited with inventing over 300 products from the peanut?
Answer: George Washington Carver
Question: In what landmark Supreme Court case was the doctrine of "separate but equal" upheld, providing legal justification for Jim Crow laws?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Plessy v. Ferguson
C. Equal Rights Act
Answer: B. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Implementation of the “separate but equal” doctrine gave constitutional sanction to laws designed to achieve racial segregation by means of separate and equal public facilities and services for African Americans and whites.
Question: What was the primary objective of the Freedom Rides that began in 1961?
Answer: To challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.
Question: This tennis player won 20 Grand Slam singles titles, including eight Wimbledon championships.
Answer: Who is Serena Williams?
True or False: Madam C.J. Walker invented the first home security system with the ability to contact the police in case of an emergency.
Answer: False. (The correct answer is Marie Van Brittan Brown)
Question: Who was the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, before Rosa Parks?
Answer: Claudette Colvin
Question: What were some tactics used by African Americans to challenge Jim Crow laws and segregation?
Answer: Strategies included legal challenges, grassroots activism, boycotts, sit-ins, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Question: What historic event, brought together hundreds of thousands of African American men to Washington D.C. to promote unity and solidarity in 1995?
Answer: The Million Man March.
Question: This gymnast, considered one of the greatest of all time, has won multiple Olympic gold medals and holds the record for the most World Championship medals won by a gymnast.
Answer: Who is Simone Biles?
Question: True or False: Granville T. Woods, known as the "Black Edison," invented the telegraphony, a device that allowed voice communication over telegraph wires.
Answer: True.