Black History Month
This is the month Black History is celebrated in the United States
A) October
B) February
C) September
What is February
This Woman is famously known for not giving up her seat on the bus
A) Rosa Parks
B) Angela Davis
C) Ida B. Wells
Who is Rosa Parks?
This man is known for his peaceful protest believing that you should not be judged based on the color of your skin but the content of your character.
A) Martin Luther King Jr
B) Harriet Tubman
C) Malcolm X
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This event mainly takes place in the summertime, when family and close friends gather to enjoy grilled food, drinks, and share stories.
A) Cookout
B) Barbeque
C) Grill day
What is a Cookout?
This holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in 1865
A) Emancipation Day
B) Juneteenth
C) 4th of July
What is Juneteenth?
The year that Black history month started
A) 1866
B) 2013
C) 1986
What is 1986
This event happened when millions of people refused to take the bus for over a year to protest the segregation of the public transportation system.
A) Million Man March
B) The Montgomery Bus Boycotts
C) The March on Washington
What were The Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
This man was the 44th president of the united states and made history by being America's first black president
A) Malcolm X
B) Chadwick Boseman
C) Barack Obama
Whos is Barack Obama
" Don't say the word lie, instead say____"
A) Fable
B)Falsehood
C) Fib
What is a fib
This was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp
A) Tiger Woods
B) Booker T Washington
C) Thurgood Marshall
Who is Booker T Washington?
This Organization was the meeting place and gave out many resources to help aid in the civil rights movement, called the NAACP for short
A) National Association for the Advancement of Cartoon People
B) National Association for the Achievement of Colored People
C) National Association for the Achievement of Cat People
What is the National Association for the Achievement of Colored People
This form of protest took place where people would sit in the "whites only" sections of restaurants and wouldn't move or say anything.
A) Walk-in
B) March
C) Sit-in
What is a Sit-in?
This Woman was the first African American female to become a self-made millionaire after making and selling her own hair products to African-Americans.
A) Rosa Parks
B) Maya Angelou
C) Madam C.J. Walker
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This kind of food originated in the South thanks to enslaved Africans.
A) Soul food
B) Barbeque
C) Tex-Mex
What is Soul Food?
Rap is a genre of music but it is also an acronym that stands for ____
A) Rhythm And Poetry
B) Rights And Peace
C) Record and Playback
What is Rhythm And Poetry
This man was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role
A) Denzel Washington
B) Chadwick Boseman
C) Sidney Poitier
Who is Sidney Poitier
This Important Supreme Court case pushed into effect the separate but equal clause after a man sued a train company for forcing him to move out of the "Whites only" Section
A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Brown v. The Board of Education
C) Scott v. Standford
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Thanks to this man, cars are able to safely drive through intersections by watching for the signals at the traffic light.
A) Geroge Washington Carver
B) Garrett Morgan
C) Besie Colman
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Black people will sing this rendition of "Happy Birthday" by _______ at birthday parties
A) Stevie Wonder
B) 50 cent
C) Garcie's Corner
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This famous superhero is named after a powerful black organization that fought against the police system and black nationalism.
A) Miles Morales
B) The Black Panther
C) Static Shock
What is the Black Panther party?
The founder of Black History Month
A) Sam G. Paterson
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Carter G. Woodson
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
This act put into place by President Lydon B Jonhson outlawed all discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, and nationality.
A) The Stamp Act
B) No Child Left Behind
C) Civil Rights Act of 1964
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This slave attempted to sue the supreme court for his freedom after being temporarily moved to a free state.
A) Barack Obama
B) Martian Luther King
C) Dred Scott
Who is Dred Scott?
This song by Michael Jackson is played every Halloween and was one of his greatest hits off his biggest album
A) Thriller
B) The Girl is Mine
C) Beat it
This fruit was turned into a negative stereotype to make black people look sloppy and childish but really is a symbol of black wealth.
A) Bananas
B) Watermelon
C) Apples
What is Watermelon?