Black History Month
Women of Black History
BLM
African American History
Who am I
100
Name the the three countries that celebrate Black History Month Every Year.
1. United States, Australia, Nigeria
2. Canada, Haiti, United States
3. United Kingdom, United States, Canada
3. United Kingdom, United States, and Canada
100
Who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field - in the 1960 Olympics for the 100 and 200 meters and the 400 meter relay?
1. Wilma Glodean Rudolph
2. Cathy Freeman
3. Marion Jones
4. Shelly Ann Fraser- Pryce
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (1940 - 1994)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
100
Who was the First African American Supreme Court Justice?
1. Clarence Thomas
2. Thurgood Marshall
3. Patricia Timmons-Goodson
4. Tamika Montgomery-Reeves
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice
100
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
1. Jackie Robinson
2. Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker
3. Willie Mays
3. Satchel Page
2. Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker
On May 1, 1884, the 26-year-old Walker was the catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in their opening game in the then-major league American Association. Six decades later, while Robinson was hailed as a pioneer, Walker was seen more as a curiosity.
100
I an American Civil Rights activist, I began using the phrase, “Me too,” on Twitter in an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault and sexual abuse. Who am I?
1. Angela Davis
2. Ida B. Wells
3. Kathleen Cleaver
4. Tarana Burke 
4. Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke In 2006, Tarana Burke, an American Civil Rights activist, began using the phrase, “Me too,” on Twitter in an effort to raise awareness about sexual assault and sexual abuse. However, it was something that she wishes she had said to other survivors of sexual assault before then- that they were not alone. That she too had survived. It is what moved her to create Just Be, Inc. to help promote mental and physical wellness amongst marginalized women and young girls. “Me too,” became a movement after the use of the hashtag gained popularity when actresses began coming forward with their experiences in Hollywood. Along with others, Tarana Burke was named “Person of the Year” by Time Magazine in 2017. As the Senior Director of the non-profit Girls for Gender Equality in Brooklyn, New York, she helps create opportunities for young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to overcome the many hurdles that they face. Through GGE, Ms. Burke tackles issues of sexism, poverty, racial injustices, transphobia, homophobia, and harassment.
200
Why is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
1. To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
2. To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on black Americans.
3. To celebrate the history of black achievement.
Carter Woodson is known as the father of black history. He announced the second week of February to be dedication to celebrating black history. He thought Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both born in Feb., had the greatest influence on black Americans.
200
Who is the dancer, singer, fund raiser, author, and poet who read a specially-composed poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993?
1. Marita Koch
2. Maya Angelou
3. Gwendolyn Brooks
4. Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou (1928)
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
200
First African American millionaire - invented black hair care products
1. Angela Davis
2. Rosa Parks
3. Sojourner Truth
4. Madame C. J. Walker
Madame C. J. Walker
200
He started the "Back to Africa Movement",and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica
1. Malcom X
2. Marcus Garvey
3. Louis Farrakhan
4. Elijah Muhammad
2. Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.
200
At the age of three, I began playing the piano by ear. During the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era my music reflected the anger that other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. I recorded more than forth albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002. Who am I?
1. Lauryn Hill
2. Nina Simone
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Patti Labelle
2. Nina Simone
Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) At the age of three, Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, began playing the piano by ear. Her talent was undeniable as she could play almost anything she heard on the piano. Her parents allowed her to play the piano at her mother’s church. Soon she began studying classical piano with Muriel Mazzanovich, an Englishwoman who was living in the town of Tyron, North Carolina, where Nina Simone was born and raised. Under Mazzanovich’s instruction, Nina became well-versed in the classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach whose style she fused with pop, jazz, and gospel to create her unique sound. And during the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era (1064 – 1974), her music reflected the anger that she and other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. The existence of racism had been obvious to Dr. Simone at a young age. Despite her talent (she studied at Julliard in New York) and her intelligence – Simone was valedictorian of her class in high school – she was denied admission to the Curtis Institute of Music because she was Black. But she did not let that stop her. In fact, Simone went on to record more than forty albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and receiving a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002 for her work. Additionally, she received three honorary degrees from Malcolm X College and Amherst College, and a third which was granted nine days before she died, from the school that rejected her, the Curtis Institute of Music.
250
Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?
1. Dr. Charles Drew
2. Dr. William Augustus Hinton
3. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
250
Who was head of National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for her work for social equality?
1. Dorthy Height
2. Margaret Walker
3. Toni Morrison
4. Angela Davis
Dorothy Height (1912 - 2010)
Dorothy Irene Height was an American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
250
What HBCU did Kamala Harris graduate from?
1. Hampton
2. Morris Brown
3. Clark Atlanta
4. Howard
Howard University
250
Who is the author who wrote" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
1. Toni Morrison
2. Maya Angelou
3. James Baldwin
4. Terry McMillan
2. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
250
Who am I
1. Barack Obama
2. Halle Berry
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Martin Luther King
5. Rosa Parks
6. Tiger Woods
7. Harriet Tubman
8. Maya Angelou
9. Mahatma Gandhi
10. Will Smith
299
In what year was it proposed that the entire month of February become black history month?
1. 1965
2. 1968
3. 1969
4. 1970
4. 1970
Black History Month was proposed in 1969
299
Who was an advocate for civil rights, a fund raiser for NAACP, and the first black person to sign a long-term Hollywood contract in 1942?
1. Lena Horne
2. Ida B. Wells
3. W.E.B. Du Bois
4. Ella Baker
Lena Horne (1917 - 2010)
299
What constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
1. The 2nd amendment
2. The 13th amendment
3. The 14th amendment
4 The 15th amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865
299
1. Secretary for the Department of Defense
2. Invented America First Clock
3. Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
4. She was the first Black Female Astronaut
Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
299
I was a pioneer of the 1950 civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955 I was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up my set to a white women. Who am I?
1. Rosa Parks
2. Claudette Colvin
3. Ida B. Wells
4. Ella Baker
2. Claudett Colvin
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus
400
What President recognized black history Month?
1. Jimmy Carter
2. Gerald Ford
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Barack Obama
2. Gerald Ford
400
Who was a civil rights activist and President of the Arkansas NAACP who advised the nine high school students who integrated the Little Rock public schools in 1957?
1. Daisy Lee May Bates
2. Dorothy Height
3. Malcom X
4. John Lewis
Daisy Lee May Bates (1914 - 1999)
400
Who was the first African American to go into space?
1. Guion Bluford
2. Ronald Erwin McNair
3. Frederick Drew Gregory
4. Mae Carol Jemison
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who is the first African American[1][2][a] and the second person of African descent to go to space. Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of colonel.
400
What was the first Black owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
1. Telfar
2. BET Black Entertainment Television
3. Oprah Winfrey Network OWN
4. AJ Crimson Beauty
2. BET Black Entertainment Television
400
I was the first African-American woman Pilot. Who am I?
1. Bessie Coleman
2. Asli Hassan Abade
3. Madeline Swegle
4. Stephanie Johnson
1. Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman pilot. She had humble beginnings. Her father was a sharecropper (one who pays living expenses by farming on land owned by someone else) in Texas and she was a one of 13 children. She walked four miles every day to school. As an adult, Bessie became interested in aviation (flying) after hearing stories from World War I veterans. Aviation schools in the United States would not admit women or black people so Bessie studied and earned her pilot’s license in Europe. When she returned, she was known as Queen Bessie and earned a living by doing air acrobatics. She died at the age of 34, doing the thing she loved most – flying
500
What name was given to the network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees?
1. Transcontinental Railroad
2. The Underground Railroad
3. Emancipation Proclamation
The Underground Railroad
500
Who founded the college that became the Bethune-Cookman University in Florida and founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935?
1. Mary Jane Mcleod
2. Tarana Burke
3. Ibram X. Kendi
4. Samuel L. Jackson
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875 - 1955)
500
First African American with his own network radio show
1. Roland Martin
2. Steve Harvey
3. Tavis Smiley
4. Nat King Cole
The Nat “King” Cole Show debuted on 5 November 1956. Nathaniel Adams Cole, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway.
500
Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?
1. Refrigerator
2. Blood Banks
3. Plastic Surgery
2. Blood Banks
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
500
I was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana on November 14, 1960. Who am I?
1. Shirley Chisholm
2. Ruby Nell Bridges
3. Mary Church Terrell
4. Angela Davis
2. Ruby Nell Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
600
What state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States?
1. The Three-Fifths Clause of the United States Constitution
2. Jim Crow
3. Separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws
In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
600
What was the first black college organized after the Civil War.
1. Shaw University
2. Talladega College,
3. Howard University,
4. Morehouse College
Shaw University––founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1865 – was the first black college organized after the Civil War.
600
First African American to be on a U.S. postage stamp
1. Martin Luther King Junior
2. Booker T. Washington
3. Medgar Evers
4. Sojourner Truth
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite
600
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
1. J.P Knight
2. Garrett Morgan
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. Morgan Freeman
2. Garrett Morgan
600
I was an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. I am best known for my talk show, which was broadcast from Chicago and was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", I was the richest African American of the 20th century. Who am I?
1. Cicely Tyson
2. Gayle King
3. Ellen DeGeneres
4. Oprah Winfrey
4. Oprah Winfrey
700
Who was the first to refuse to give up her seat to a white person.
1. Claudette Colvin
2. Rosa Parks
3. Jo Ann Robinson
Claudette Colvin
700
Which of the following did not attend a historically black college and university - commonly called “HBCUs”
1. W.E.D. DuBois,
2. Malcolm X
3. Ida B. Wells,
4. Booker T. Washington
5. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
W.E.D. DuBois, Harvard University
Ida B. Wells, Fisk University in Nashville.
Booker T. Washington Hampton University
Martin Luther King Jr. Morehouse College
700
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
1. Ebenezer Baptist
2. Atlanta Southern Baptist
3. Southern Church of the People
4. Atlanta Tabernacle
1. Ebenezer Baptist Church
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in Atlanta, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968, the location of the funerals of both Dr. King and congressman John Lewis, and the church for which United States Senator Raphael Warnock has been pastor since 2005. It is located in the historic area now designated as the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
700
What was the nickname for the all Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps which escorted Allied Bombers through European airspace on 1,578 mission during World War II?
1. Flying Blue Aces
2. Tuskegee Airmen
3. 92nd bomber squadron
2. Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
700
I was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. I was “the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women. Who am I?
1. Mary McLeod Bethune
2. Shirley Chisholm
3. Phillis Wheatley
4. Madam C.J. Walker
4. Madam C. J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919) was born Sarah Breedlove. She was the first female self-made millionaire. She was one of five children and the first to be born after the end of slavery. In her early years, she did not receive formal education and was married at the age of 14. She worked as a washerwoman and at 35 decided she wanted something better for her life. Suffering from balding and other hair ailments, she developed a product for straightening and growing her hair – Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower. She took on the name Madam C.J. Walker after her second marriage to Charles Walker. Her business grew and she established the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.
900
Which black mathematician was a surveyor who helped plan the District of Columbia?
1. Benjamin Banneker
2. David Blackwell
3. Melba Roy Mouton
Benjamin Banneker in 1790
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught.
900
Which one of these four historically black colleges has an overwhelmingly white student body?
1. Bluefield State College (West Virginia)
2. LeMoyne-Owens College (Tennessee)
3. Kentucky State University
4. Savannah State
Bluefield State College (West Virginia)
900
Which of these honors Martin Luther King Jr. Did not receive?
1. Nobel Peach Prize
2. Congressional Gold Medal
3. Presidential Medal of Freedom
4. Freedom Award
Freedom Award
900
Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?
1. Da Brat
2. Beyonce
3. Lauryn Hill
4. Missy Elliott
Lauryn Hill
900
I was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. My essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century. Who am I?
1. George Washington Carver
2. Garrett Morgan
3. James Baldwin
4. Benjamin Banneker
3. James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century
1000
What War did the Teskegee Airmen fly in?
1. WWI
2. WWII
3. Vietnam War
WWII. They were the first group of black fighter pilots.
1000
In 1863, a tree on this campus, which still stands, was the site of the first Southern reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1. Shaw University in Raleigh
2. Hampton University in Hampton Va.
3. Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C.
4. Morris Brown College in Atlanta
Hampton University in Hampton, Va.
1000
Who was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that upheld the legal doctrine of "separate but equal?"
1. Oliver Brown
2. Jane Roe
3. Homer Plessy
4. Dred Scott
Homer Plessy
Homer Adolph Plessy, originally Homère Adolphe Plessy (March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925), was a French-speaking Creole from Louisiana, best known for being the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson.
Arrested, tried and convicted in New Orleans of a violation of one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws, he appealed through Louisiana state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. The resulting "separate but equal" decision against him had wide consequences for civil rights in the United States. The decision legalized state-mandated segregation anywhere in the United States so long as the facilities provided for both blacks and whites were putatively "equal"
1000
Who was last black actress to win the Academy Award"s Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2006?
1. Angela Bassett
2. Jennifer Hudson
3. Halle Barry
4. Kerry Washington
Jennifer Hudson
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures
1000
I was the first woman and first black american to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to my run for the Presidency. I made history by becoming the first black congresswoman, representing New York State in the House of Representatives for seven terms. I graduate of Brooklyn College, and earned a Masters degree in education from Columbia University. As a former teacher, I spent her political career fighting for equal opportunities in education and social justice (equality for all people no matter what our differences). Who am I?
1. Althea Gibson
2. Constance Baker Motley
3. Shirley Chisholm
4. Mae Jemison
3. Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Before Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, there was Shirley Chisholm. Shirley Chisholm was the first woman and first black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to her run for the Presidency, Shirley Chisholm made history by becoming the first black Congresswoman, representing New York State in the House of Representatives for seven terms. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she earned her Masters degree in education from Columbia University. As a former teacher, she spent her political career fighting for equal opportunities in education and social justice (equality for all people no matter what our differences).