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100
What is the year BSA was officially recognized at SLU? Hint: It was a sad year in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is "1968"?
100
What is the age of Martin Luther King Jr. when he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
What is "35"?
100
What is the name of the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993?
What is "Toni Morrison?"
100
What year did the first march from Selma to Montgomery Begin?
What is "1965"
100
When did African Americans get the right to vote on paper?
What is 1965?
200
What is the official name for the Black Pre-Commencement Ceremony Hosted annually by Society of African American Studies? Hint: Ask a African American Studies Major or Minor.
What is "Sankofa"?
200
What is the name of the place the Martin Luther King Jr. was born?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
200
What is the name of the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
What is "Mae Jemison?"
200
What state did the Montgomery bus boycott take place in?
What is "Alabama?"
200
Which amendment abolished slavery (except in prisons)?
What is "13"?
300
What is the year BSA was officially founded? Hint: It was a sad year in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is "1968"?
300
What is the name of the person that led the most significant slave uprising in Southhampton county, Virginia in 1831?
What is "Nat Turner"?
300
What is the name of the person was the third woman to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List, awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1979, lectured at Rutgers University, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, Brown University, Syracuse University, and was born on January 26, 1944 (age 73), in Birmingham, Alabama
What is "Angela Davis"?
300
3. What year did the civil right march on Washington D.C. take place?
What is "Tuesday, August 27, 1963"?
300
Which court case justified segregation as “separate but equal”?
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson?"
400
What is ONE of the six demands set forth by the Association of Black Collegians of S.L.U.? Hint: The BSA Clock Tower Accords are similar.
What is "1. That Mr. Gerald Brown initiate a program for incorporating Black culture into the various activities of Busch Center specifically Black films, music, exhibits by Black artists, etc. 2. That Mr. Kenneth Nieters conduct an open investigation of the harassment of Black students in conjunction with members of the A.B.C. 3. That black supervisors be hired in the maintenance dept. ​4. That more black security policemen be hired. 5. That there be more courses related to Black culture in these academic departments; English, History, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Economics, History, and Music. 6. That the Urban Affairs Department involve more black people in policy making positions. That the Urban Affairs Department become more relevant to the Black Community through action programs rather than research projects."
400
What is the name of the deliverer of the "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the Akron, Ohio Women's Convention in 1851?
What is "Sojourner Truth?"
400
What is the name of this individual, died in Detroit, Michigan, is from Tuskegee, AL, and was titled “the first lady of the civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”
What is "Rosa Parks"?
400
What is the name of the place where the first Black Lives Matter Protest took place?
What is "Ferguson, Missouri"?
400
When was the NAACP Founded?
What is "1909"?
500
What is the name of the student behind the "The Black Experience at Saint Louis University" Youtube video?
What is Chloe Owens?
500
What is the name of the author of the collection of essays titled "Souls of Black Folk"
What is "William Edward Burghardt Du Bois?"
500
What is name of the individual that became the first black female U.S Secretary of State in 2005?
What is "Condoleezza Rice?"
500
What is the name of the movement that was done to end slavery and eliminate racial segregation? This was "started" by the Quakers in 1783?
What is "the abolitionist movement?"
500
What is the year that the Brown versus Board of Education decision was made?
What is "May 17, 1954"?