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Black History Trivia

Subjects : trivia, history
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'






2. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period






3. In what year was the Million Man March?






4. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.






5. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'






6. What athlete gained worldwide stardom during the 1960 Olympics in Rome when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Games - winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relay?






7. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?






8. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight






9. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'






10. First black NFL quarterback






11. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'






12. First black female to win a Grammy






13. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.






14. In what year was the VRA passed?






15. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'






16. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.






17. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?






18. Best known for his work with blood plasma - this man helped set up the American Red Cross blood bank and established the first blood bank in England?






19. In what year was the VRA passed?






20. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?






21. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?






22. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.






23. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?






24. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature






25. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property - that blacks were not citizens - and that the MI Compromise was unconstitutional?






26. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?






27. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?






28. This member of the NY Yankees whose late-season heroics earned him the name 'Mr. October' hit three dramatic home runs in the last game of the World Series against the LA Dodgers at Yankee Stadium.






29. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?






30. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States






31. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature






32. This member of the NY Yankees whose late-season heroics earned him the name 'Mr. October' hit three dramatic home runs in the last game of the World Series against the LA Dodgers at Yankee Stadium.






33. First black Miss America






34. In what year was the NAACP founded?






35. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation






36. First published black poet






37. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By






38. In what year was MLK assassinated?






39. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?






40. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff






41. First black major league baseball player






42. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?






43. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance






44. First black star of a network TV show






45. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'






46. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.






47. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?






48. First black president






49. What athlete gained worldwide stardom during the 1960 Olympics in Rome when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Games - winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relay?






50. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?