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What Civil Rights activist gave the “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
What rights did Blacks gain as a result of the 15th Amendment?
The right to vote
Who shot Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1968?
James Earl Ray
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
Name the Civil Rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the first Black child to desegregate schools in 1960?
Ruby Bridges
Who was the first African American woman to become a millionaire?
Annie Malone
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?
Frederick Douglass
Who was the Black track athlete that proved Hitler wrong in the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Jesse Owens
At its peak, what was the slave population in the United States?
FOUR MILLION
In what year were the first African slaves brought to America?
1619
What is the Black National Anthem?
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?
Oprah Winfrey
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What year was the 13th Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?
Jazz
Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?
Booker T. Washington
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation Act in 1863?
President Abraham Lincoln
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
An all white jury acquitted J.W Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Emmett Till
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
James Baldwin
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
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