Juneteenth
What was the last state to free enslaved African Americans?
Texas
On what date did the Emancipation Proclamation take effect?
January 1, 1863
Who said the following, “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
James Baldwin
Who was the 44th President of the United States?
President Barack Hussein Obama
Which of these influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Maya Angelou, August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, or Toni Morrison?
Toni Morrison, author of Beloved and The Bluest Eye, won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import [that give] life to an essential aspect of American reality.”
When did Juneteenth become a Federal holiday?
June 17, 2021
How many years had the Emancipation Proclamation been enacted before the last slaves were finally informed of their freedom?
Two and a half years
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
Woolworth's, which was located in Greensboro, N.C.
This Civil Rights Activists and member of Congress was nearly killed as he led a group of protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest racial discrimination in voting on Bloody Sunday in 1965.
Congressman John Lewis
Who was the African American mathematician and physicist who helped send John Glenn around the Earth. She performed her duties with the NASA space agency?
Katherine Johnson
Who was known as the "Grandmother" of Juneteenth?
Ms. Opal Lee
Which U.S. President signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law?
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
What was the name of the individual who refused to give up her seat on the bus, thus initiating the Montogmery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
Before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama served as a U.S. senator of which Midwestern state?
Illinois
Who was the founder of Negro History Week, which eventually became Black History?
Carter G. Woodson
How old was the Grandmother of Juneteenth when she marched to Washington D.C. to petition for Juneteenth to become a Federal Holiday?
She was 89 years old.
On what date did the U.S. President sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
September 22, 1862
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
Who was the first African American Woman to be elected into Congress?
Shirley Anita Chisholm, a proud members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
This person, who is one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, wrote the poem, A Dream Deferred?
Langston Huges
Which U.S. President signed Juneteenth into law as a Federal Holiday?
President Joseph R. Biden, 46th President of the United States
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states under this type of control.
Confederate control
What was the name of the 15 year old young lady who was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery Bus nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same act?
Claudette Colvin
What was the name of the first African-American candidate to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination?
Shirley Anita Chisholm, a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority
This service, which is held on December 31st, serves to honor the enslaved and free African Americans who attended church, praying and awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect.
Watch Night Service, or Freedom's Eve