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What city was Rosa Parks in when she refused to sit in the back of the bus?
Montgomery, AL
Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?
Sojourner Truth
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
1964
True or false: The first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was white
True
What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture?
Harlem
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who broke 3 track & field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Jesse Owens
What year were African Americans allowed to vote?
1965
At its peak, what was the slave population in the US?
4 million
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Woolworth in Greensboro, NC
Who was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that upheld the legal doctrine of "separate but equal?"
Homer Plessy (Plessy v. Ferguson)
Who was the first African American quarterback to win a Superbowl?
Doug Williams
In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school integration?
1955
What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?
Little Rock, Arkansas
Who was the first black female astronaut?
Mae Carol Jemison
Who was the first African American male to win a NCAA tennis Championship?
Arthur Ashe
What year was Alice Walker‟s novel The Color Purple Published?
1982
What state was the first to elect a black governor in 1989?
Virginia
Richard Theodore Greener was the first African American to graduate from what university in 1870?
Harvard
Who organized the million man march on October 6, 1995?
Louis Farrakhan
Which NBA basketball icon was the youngest player to ever start in an NBA game, scored the most points in a single arena, and scored more free-throws and made more turnovers than any other guard in history?
Kobe Bryant
Northern industries experiencing an economic boom during World War I contributed to the Great Migration beginning in what year?
1915
What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?
Freedom's Journal