Black History Month

True or False:

Rosa Parks was the first black female to refuse to give up her seat on a bus?

• True

• False

Finish this statement:

Of the 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World during the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Fewer than 390,000 arrived in the United States

• More than 500,000 arrived in the United States

• More than 390,000 arrived in the united states

• Fewer than 200,000 arrived in the United States

True or False:

In the 1930's when Jewish educators could not find positions teaching because of a rise in xenophobia and anti-semitism, they found positions at HBCU's

• True

• False

Fill in the Blank:

Despite popular books and movies _____ cowboys were black

• 2/3

• 1/8

• 1/4

• 4/5

Who was the real Betty Boop?

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The first licensed African-American female pilot was named...

• Amelia Earheart

• Jeannie Leavitt

• Bessie Coleman

• Harriet Quimby

Interracial marriage was banned in the United States was banned in 1664 and not overturned until

• 1669

• 1754

• 1985

• 1967

Phillis Wheatley was only ____ years old when she became the first female African American author published

• 24

• 12

• 9

• 20

True or False:

Martin Luther King Jr improvised the most iconic part of his “I Have a Dream” speech

• True

• False

Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, wasn’t allowed to attend

• Gone With the Wind's national premiere

• The Oscars

• NAACP Awards

• The production site when the main actors were rehearsing