Black History Month Trivia Challenge

Who was the African American who died at the American Revolution’s Boston Massacre and is considered by some as the first American casualty of the war?

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Chicken George

• Crispus Attucks

Which African American performed the first successful human heart operation?

• William Debaeke

• Daniel H. Williams

• Gerald Mayo

• Harriet Tubman

In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is also a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for, “Beloved” which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz.

• Oprah Winfrey

• Michelle Obama

• Maya Angelou

• Toni Morrison

What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?

• The Solution

• The Crisis

• Change is Now

• The Black Man’s Dilemma

Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm’s aftermath affected African- Americans?

• John Singleton

• Jordan Peele

• Spike Lee

• Tyler Perry

Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America’s oldest historically black college for women?

• Towson University

• Grambling State

• Spelman College

• Queens College

Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930’s in what city?

• Baltimore

• Washington, D.C.

• Harlem

• Atlanta

What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?

• The Harlem Herald

• New York Times

• The Abolitionist

• The North Star

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally of about 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city in 1965?

• Birmingham

• Selma

• Montgomery

• Greensboro

Who is often called, “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Fredrick Douglass

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Malcom X