African American First
Who was the first African American in Major League Baseball player?
A)Ernie Banks
B) Satchel Paige
C) Jackie Robinson
D) Larry Doby
C) Jackie Robinson
Who said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."?
A) Frederick Douglass
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) James Baldwin
D) W.E.B. Dubois
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was the first black President?
A) Donald Trump
B) Barack Obama
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) W.E.B. Dubois
B) Barack Obama
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?
A) Right to Citizenship Status
B) Voting Rights
C) Freedom from Slavery
D) Right to Sit Anywhere
B) Voting Rights
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses?
A) Sojourner Truth
B) Mary Mcleod Bethune
C) Rosa Parks
D) Harriet Tubman
C) Rosa Parks
Who was the first African American to run for Presidency?
A) George Edwin Taylor
B) Barack Obama
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) Donald Trump
A) George Edwin Taylor
Who said, "Character, not circumstances, makes the person.”?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) Malcolm X
D) Booker T. Washington
D) Booker T. Washington
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Powell v. Alabama
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
A) 1865
B) 1872
C) 1862
D) 1867
A) 1865
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A) Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
B) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
C) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
D) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
A) Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
A) Charles Hamilton Houston
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Richard Theodore Greener
D) W. E. B. Du Bois
C) Richard Theodore Greener
Who said, "Life is not a spectator sport."?
A) Jackie Robinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Barack Obama
D) Donald Trump
A) Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American to be placed as a Representative?
A) Shirley Chisholm
B) Hiram Revels
C) Joseph Rainey
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C) Joseph Rainey
Where was Malcolm X killed?
A) Massachusetts State Prison
B) Downtown Boston
C) His House, Queens
D) Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
D) Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
What is Malcolm X's birth name?
A) Malcolm Poole
B) Frederick Williams
C) Malcolm Shabazz
D) Malcolm Little
D) Malcolm Little
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
A) Albert John Lutul
B) Ralph Bunche
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Nelson Mandela
B) Ralph Bunche
Who said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Booker T. Washington
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Barack Obama
C) Frederick Douglass
What year were African Americans allowed to join the military?
A) 1870
B) 1785
C) 1780
D) 1862
D) 1862
Who signed The Emancipation Act?
A) James Buchanan
B) Ulysses S. Grant
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Abraham Lincoln
D) Abraham Lincoln
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
A) Maria Stewart
B) Harriet Beecher Stowe
C) Harriet Tubman
D) Sojourner Truth
C) Harriet Tubman
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
A) Hiram Revels
B) Blanche K. Bruce
C) Edward Brooke
D) Carol Mosley Braun
A) Hiram Revels
Who said, "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Jackie Robinson
C) Malcolm X
D) Rosa Parks
D) Rosa Parks
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
A) Shirley Chisholm
B) Rosa Parks
C) Michelle Obama
D) Gabrielle Union
A) Shirley Chisholm
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Martin Luther King Jr.
C) Rosa Parks
D) Frederick Douglass
A) W.E.B. Du Bois
What primarily black female college was founded by two white women in Atlanta, Georgia?
A) Spelman College
B) Lincoln Institute
C) Howard University
D) Tuskegee Institute
A) Spelman College