Women
On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 year old in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
a. Rosa Parks
b. Claudette Colvin
c. Daisy Bates
d. Jo Ann Robinson
Engineer ________ has worked on advancing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, converting voice data into digital signals, focusing on statistical analysis and social psychology. With more than 200 patents to her name.
a. Dr. Patricia Bathe
b. Dr. Shirley A. Jackson
c. Dr. Marian Croak
d. Dr. Betty Harris
Women have the right to vote by which Amendment?
a. 13th Amendment
b. 14th Amendment
c. 15th Amendment
d. 19th Amendment
The Freedmen's Bureaus intended to act as a primitive welfare agency aiming to ease the transition from slavery to freedom. the Bureau also too up the fight for?
a. African American Education
b. American Missionary Association
c. The Civil Rights Acts
d. Bureau of Refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
a. African American Education
Muhammad Ali was a heavyweight boxing champion with an impressive 56-win record. He was also known for his brave public stance against the Vietnam War. What was his birth name?
a. Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
b. Joe Frazier
c. George Foreman
d. Sonny Liston
a. Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
The first African American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for her invention of a folding cabinet bed in 1885.
a. Judy W. Reed
b. Sarah E. Goode
c. Sarah Boone
d. Mary Davidson
b. Sarah E. Goode
________ conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.
a. Dr. Patricia Bath
b. Dr. Betty Harris
c. Dr. Shirley A. Jackson
d. Marie Van Britta Brown
Who was the President of United States that signed two historic Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and Voting Right Acts of 1965?
a. President John F. Kennedy
b. President Lyndon B. Johnson
c. President Richard M. Nixon
d. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. President Lyndon B. Johnson
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson
In 1855, ______ verse _______ became first black slave woman in Massachusetts to legally contest her slave status. She won her freedom and they awarded her 30 shingle in damages.
a. Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
b. Bridget Mason v. Robert Smith
c. Elizabeth Freeman v. John Ashley,
d. Johnson v. Parker,
c. Elizabeth Freeman v. John Ashley,
https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/jury-decides-in-favor-of-elizabeth-mum-bett-freeman.html
Simone Arianne Biles is an American gymnast, considered to be one of the sporting world’s biggest names. Simone won ______at the World Championship.
a. 50 medals
b. 26 medals
c. 25 medals
d. 32 medals
In 1904, during the Jim Crow Era's who the person to boycott that protested the Virginia Passenger and Power Company's policy of segregated seat on the Richmond streetcar.
a. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
b. Malcolm X
c. Maggie Lena Walker
d. Adam Clayton Powell
____________started working at IBM in 1980 and was instrumental in the invention of the Personal Computer (PC). He holds three of IBM's original nine PC patents and currently holds more than 20 total patents.
a. Dr. James E. West
b. Dr. Shirley A. Jackson
c. Dr. Charles Drew
d. Dr. Mark Dean
________ was named the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi. He moved with his family to Jackson and worked to dismantle segregation, leading peaceful rallies, economic boycotts and voter registration drives around the state. He was shot in the back.
a. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
b. Rosa Parks
c. Elbert Williams
d. Medgar Evers
________________ was an American-born French dancer, singer, World War II spy, and Activist who symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s. She went on to become one of the most popular music hall entertainers in France.
a. Aretha Franklin
b. Josephine Baker
c. Diane Ross
d. Gladys Knights
Champions Hockey League (CHL) established in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1895, it was a league consisting of teams from across the Maritimes that featured only black players. The league was established as a way to recruit blacks to the Baptist church.
a. 1895
b. 1906
c. 1903
d. 1912
She opened a boarding school, the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. Eventually, Bethune’s school became a college, merging with the all-male Cookman Institute to form Bethune-Cookman College. Who is person?
a. Mary McCloud Bethune
b. Annie Turnbo Malone
c. Madame CJ Walker
d. Maggie Lena Walker
__________ holds more than 60 U.S. patents and more than 200 foreign patents using polymer foil electrets in transducers during his 40-year career with Bell Laboratories, where he had worked as an acoustical scientist.
a. Dr. James E. West
b. Dr. Shirley A. Jackson
c. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
d. Dr. Patricia- Bath
“Black Rosies” worked tirelessly—in shipyards and factories, along railroads, inside administrative offices and elsewhere—to fight both the foreign enemy of authoritarianism abroad and the familiar enemy of racism at home. Which president sign an Executive Order 8802 that banning racial discriminated in the defense industry the black women (Black Rosies) can work?
a. President Franklin Roosevelt
b. President Woodrow Wilson
c. President Harry S. Truman
d. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
a. President Franklin Roosevelt
https://www.history.com/news/black-rosie-the-riveters-wwii-homefront-great-migration
_________became the first Black man to win the coveted Best Actor prize for his role in Lilies of the Field.
a. Denzel Washington
b. Cuba Gooding Jr.
c. Morgan Freeman
d. Sidney Politer
______________was an American professional golfer who was the first African American to play on the PGA Tour. He won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969.
a. Calvin Peete
b. Charles Sifford
c. Harold Varner III
d. Pete Brown
She became the first black woman to founded the organization's newspaper called "St. Luke Herald" and opened a highly successful bank called "St. Luke Penny Saving Bank" and a department store called St. Luke Emporium". Who was this person?
a. Shirley Chisolm
b. Mary McCloud Bethune
c. Madame C.J. Walker
d. Maggie Lena Walker
____________also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming.
a. Dr. Mark Dean
b. Dr. James E. West
c. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
d. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
On January 19, 1856 she petitioned the court for freedom for herself and her extended family of 13 women and children. She won due to citing California’s 1850 constitution which prohibited slavery.
a. Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
b. Bridget Mason v. Robert Smith
c. Elizabeth Freeman v. John Ashley
d. Johnson v. Parker
b. Bridget Mason v. Robert Smith
____________host a successful comedian show and the first black entertainer on NBC in the 1970 to 1974. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement for a Variety Show. Also, he was the first man to dress up as a woman on his network television show.
a. Martin Lawrence
b. Clerow “Flip” Wilson
c. Eddie Murphy
d. Jamie Foxx
e. Tyler Perry
The first black ice hockey star was Herb Carnegie during the Great Depression. _________ broke the NHL's black color barrier with the Boston Bruins in 1958. Also, have his jersey number 22 retired by the Boston Bruins.
a. Art Dorrington
b. Ryan Reaves
c. Dustin Byfuglien
d. Willie O'Ree