Black History Month
Women of Black History
BLM
African American History
Who am I
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Name the the three countries that celebrate Black History Month Every Year.
A. United States, Australia, Nigeria
B. Canada, Haiti, United States
C. United Kingdom, United States, Canada
What is the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada?
100
Who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field - in the 1960 Olympics for the 100 and 200 meters and the 400 meter relay?
A. Wilma Glodean Rudolph
B. Cathy Freeman
C. Marion Jones
Who is Wilma Glodean Rudolph (1940 - 1994)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, who became a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
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Who was the First African American Supreme Court Justice?
A. Clarence Thomas
B. Thurgood Marshall
C. Tamika Montgomery-Reeves
Who is Thurgood Marshall. He was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice
100
What War did the Teskegee Airmen fly in?
1. WWI
2. WWII
3. Vietnam War
WWII. They were the first group of black fighter pilots.
100
I was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana on November 14, 1960. Who am I?
A. Shirley Chisholm
B. Ruby Nell Bridges
C. Mary Church Terrell
Who is Ruby Nell Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
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Why is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
A. To honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
B. To recognize the influence that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had on black Americans.
C. To celebrate the history of black achievement.
What is B.
Carter Woodson is known as the father of black history. He announced the second week of February to be dedication to celebrating black history. He thought Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both born in Feb., had the greatest influence on black Americans.
200
Who is the dancer, singer, fund raiser, author, and poet who read a specially-composed poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993?
A.1. Marita Koch
B. Maya Angelou
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
Maya Angelou (1928)
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
200
First African American millionaire - invented black hair care products
A. Angela Davis
B. Rosa Parks
C. Madame C. J. Walker
Who is Madame C. J. Walker
200
Who was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that upheld the legal doctrine of "separate but equal?"
A. Oliver Brown
B. Jane Roe
C. Homer Plessy
Who is Homer Plessy
Homer Adolph Plessy, originally Homère Adolphe Plessy (March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925), was a French-speaking Creole from Louisiana, best known for being the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson.
Arrested, tried and convicted in New Orleans of a violation of one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws, he appealed through Louisiana state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. The resulting "separate but equal" decision against him had wide consequences for civil rights in the United States. The decision legalized state-mandated segregation anywhere in the United States so long as the facilities provided for both blacks and whites were putatively "equal"
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At the age of three, I began playing the piano by ear. During the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era my music reflected the anger that other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. I recorded more than forty albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002. Who am I?
A. Nina Simone
B. Aretha Franklin
C. Patti Labelle
Who is Nina Simone
Dr. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) At the age of three, Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, began playing the piano by ear. Her talent was undeniable as she could play almost anything she heard on the piano. Her parents allowed her to play the piano at her mother’s church. Soon she began studying classical piano with Muriel Mazzanovich, an Englishwoman who was living in the town of Tyron, North Carolina, where Nina Simone was born and raised. Under Mazzanovich’s instruction, Nina became well-versed in the classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach whose style she fused with pop, jazz, and gospel to create her unique sound. And during the period in the United States known as the Civil Rights Era (1064 – 1974), her music reflected the anger that she and other Black Americans felt as they fought for their freedom and rights. The existence of racism had been obvious to Dr. Simone at a young age. Despite her talent (she studied at Julliard in New York) and her intelligence – Simone was valedictorian of her class in high school – she was denied admission to the Curtis Institute of Music because she was Black. But she did not let that stop her. In fact, Simone went on to record more than forty albums, earning four Grammy Award nominations and receiving a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002 for her work. Additionally, she received three honorary degrees from Malcolm X College and Amherst College, and a third which was granted nine days before she died, from the school that rejected her, the Curtis Institute of Music.
300
What President recognized black history Month?
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Gerald Ford
C. Ronald Reagan
Who is Gerald Ford
300
Who was the First and only Black Woman serve as Vice President of the United States of America.
A. Oprah Winfrey
B. Michelle Obama
C. Kamala Harris
Who is Kamala Harris?
Kamala Harris born on October 20, 1964 is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and as the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.
300
What constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
A. The 2nd amendment
B. The 13th amendment
C. The 15th amendment
What is the 13th amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865
300
Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?
A. Refrigerator
B. Blood Banks
C. Plastic Surgery
What is Blood Banks
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
300
I was a pioneer of the 1950 civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955 I was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up my set to a white women. Who am I?
A. Rosa Parks
B. Claudette Colvin
C. Ida B. Wells
Who is Claudette Colvin
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus
400
What state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States?
A. The Three-Fifths Clause of the United States Constitution
B. Jim Crow
C. Separate but equal
What is the Jim Crow Laws
In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s.
400
She sang at the 1963 March on Washington right before Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech.
A. Josephine Baker
B. Lena Horne
C. Mahalia Jackson
Who is Mahalia Jackson?
The Queen of Gospel, is known as one of the greatest musicians in American history. Jackson sang at the 1963 March on Washington right before Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. While giving his speech, Jackson interjected with “Tell them about the dream, Martin.” Jackson’s words led King to improvise the pivotal latter part of his speech.
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First African American with his own network radio show
A. Roland Martin
B. Tavis Smiley
C. Nat King Cole
Who is Nat “King” Cole. The Nat King Cole Show debuted on 5 November 1956. Nathaniel Adams Cole, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway.
400
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
A. J.P Knight
B. Garrett Morgan
C. Benjamin Franklin
Who is Garrett Morgan
400
I was the first African-American woman Pilot. Who am I?
A. Bessie Coleman
B.Madeline Swegle
C. Stephanie Johnson
Who is Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman pilot. She had humble beginnings. Her father was a sharecropper (one who pays living expenses by farming on land owned by someone else) in Texas and she was a one of 13 children. She walked four miles every day to school. As an adult, Bessie became interested in aviation (flying) after hearing stories from World War I veterans. Aviation schools in the United States would not admit women or black people so Bessie studied and earned her pilot’s license in Europe. When she returned, she was known as Queen Bessie and earned a living by doing air acrobatics. She died at the age of 34, doing the thing she loved most – flying
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What name was given to the network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees?
A. Transcontinental Railroad
B. The Underground Railroad
C. Emancipation Proclamation
What is The Underground Railroad
500
She was a revolutionary American educator. This former Black Panther has fought for race, class and gender equality over the years. She authored one of the of the most distinguished books in the field of women’s studies called "Women, Race & Class".
A. Susan Rice
B. Angela Davis
C. Kathleen Cleaver
Who is Angela Davis?
500
Who was the first African American to go into space?
A. Guion Bluford
B. Ronald Erwin McNair
C. Frederick Drew Gregory
Who is Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942).
He is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who is the first African American and the second person of African descent to go to space. Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of colonel.
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A. Secretary for the Department of Defense
B. Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
C. She was the first Black Female Astronaut
500
I was a medical doctor and a scientist. I was very interested in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions (a transfusion is done when a person is hurt or ill and needs blood restored in their body). I developed a process for removing plasma (blood without cells) from blood. Plasma can be stored much longer than whole blood. I was credited with heading two blood banks – The American Red Cross and Blood for Britain. Blood for Britain provided blood for soldiers injured in World War II.
A. James Baldwin
B. Charles Drew
C. Frederick Douglas
Who is Dr. Charles Drew
Dr, Charles Drew (1904-1950) was a medical doctor and scientist. He was very interested in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions (a transfusion is done when a person is hurt or ill and needs blood restored in their body). He developed a process for removing plasma (blood without cells) from blood. Plasma can be stored much longer than whole blood. He is credited with heading two blood banks – The American Red Cross and Blood for Britain. Blood for Britain provided blood for soldiers injured in World War II.