African Americans
This 1963 event, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, took place in Washington, D.C.
What is the March on Washington?
This period in Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868, was characterized by the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and relative peace.
What is Edo Period?
There are this many "Pillars of Islam".
What is five (5)?
This group of people is currently the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States.
Who are Hispanics?
This year, Marietta College had its first Black woman graduate. A. 1985 B. 1972 C. 1967 D. 1951
D. 1951
This U.S. Supreme Court case in 1857 declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be considered U.S. citizens, further deepening divisions leading to the Civil War.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
This country is the second-most populous in Africa, has never been colonized, and is known for its unique alphabet. This country also uses its own calendar based on the Coptic calendar, which is 7-8 years behind the Gregorian calendar.
What is Ethiopia?
This religion is named after the Indus River.
What is Hinduism?
This religion is the fastest-growing religion in the U.S.
What is Islam?
This person was Marietta College's first Black graduate in 1876.
Who is Charles Sumner Harrison?
In this decade, African American people fully got the right to vote.
A. 1940s B.1950s C.1960s D.1970s
[D] 1960s African American women legally received the right to vote along with all women with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. However, by the 1930s, southern states enacted laws and vigilantes took the law into their own hands that prevented African American women in the south, for the most part, from voting. African American women in the south did not start voting in significant numbers until the 1960s.
This country, formerly known as the Gold Coast, was the first African nation to gain independence from colonial rule in 1957.
What is Ghana?
This present-day country is where Islam founded.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This month is known as Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
What is May?
This country is where Marietta College's first international student in 1873 was from.
A. Canada B. Japan C. Mexico D. China
B. Japan
Kantaro Arima, a Japanese student from Kagoshima, was MC’s first international student.
He’s the civil rights icon who told people to get into ‘Good Trouble, necessary trouble.’ In 2008, he brought that same powerful message to Marietta College as the Commencement speaker, inspiring grads to stand up for what’s right.
Who is John Lewis?
This Canadian prime minister, serving from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, is known for his efforts to establish bilingualism and multiculturalism in Canada.
Pierre Trudeau
Hmong trace their roots of origin to this country. A. Laos B. Thailand B. Vietnam D. Korea
What is Laos?
This year is when women were first admitted to Marietta College on equal standing with men. A. 1857 B. 1897 C. 1913 D. 1926
B. 1897
This person was the first African American governor of a U.S. State. A. Henry Warmoth B. Pinckney Pinchback C. Booker T. Washington D. Douglas Wilder
[B] Pinckney Pinchback (1837 – 1921) was appointed governor of the State of Louisiana serving a short term from 1872 to 1873, the first person of African American descent to serve in a U.S. state’s highest elected office. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side, and became a captain in the army. After the war, he returned to New Orleans and entered politics as a Republican. In 1968, he became a delegate to Louisiana’s state constitutional convention and helped draft its new constitution. Later that year, he won his election to become a state senator. In 1871, the lieutenant governor died and Pinchback, as president of the senate, assumed his role because the elected governor, Henry Warmoth, was under impeachment proceedings. Pinchback served officially for 36 days, December 1872 to January of 1873, and approved ten legislative bills. He continued to rise in Louisiana politics and was elected to the United States Senate, but was denied his seat due to an election embroiled by racial tensions. He died at the age of 84 in Washington, DC in 1921. Pinchback’s father was a white Mississippi planter and his mother a freed black slave. When his father died in 1848, his mother moved her family of nine children to Ohio to avoid any future effort to return them to slavery. Pinchback began working as a cabin boy on Mississippi River steamboats at the age of 12 to support his family, and rose to become a ship steward. He married Nina Hawthorne at the age of 21 and the couple became parents of four children.
Daily Double!
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa, reaching India in 1498, and opening a sea route to Asia.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
Elizabeth A. Anderson became Marietta College’s first female faculty member in 1897 in this department.
English Literature