Who
Who became the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
What event took place in 1941–1945?
World War II
Entertainer Timmie Rogers had the first prime-time, all-black television show on which tv network?
CBS
In 1941, an African American physician and scientist developed a technique for preserving blood plasma.
What is the name of the African American Physician and scientist?
Dr. Charles Drew
Philip Randolph proposed a March on Washington to demand what for African Americans in 1941.
fair employment
What year was the NAACP Washington Bureau established?
1942
Who became the first African American to play major league baseball in the modern era?
Jackie Robinson
1943A. Philip Randolph created the National Council for a Permanent (FEPC).
What does FEPC stand for?
Fair Employment Practices Commission
What year did the U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., (D-NY) began to attach a provision known as the “Powell Amendment” to bills, which became Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
1946
In 1947, who organized the Journey of Reconciliation, the first Freedom Ride into the South
Bayard Rustin of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
George Houser of CORE
In 1945, A. Philip Randolph organized the Committee against Jim Crow Military Services and Training, later named what?
“League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Service”
What year was The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded?
1942
Who became the first U.S. president to address the annual convention of the NAACP?
President Harry Truman
In 1948, the Democratic National Convention endorsed a strong civil rights plank.
True or False
True
What year did W. E. B. Du Bois submit to the United Nations “An Appeal to the World,” a petition linking racism in the U.S. to colonial imperialism?
1947