Black History Month

Who was nicknamed "The African Calculator"?

• Joe Louis

• Booker T. Washington

• Thomas Fuller

• Paul Williams

Who was the FIRST woman to refuse to give her seat on the bus to a white person?

• Rosa Parks

• Dorothy Brown

• Angela Davis

• Claudette Colvin

What year was "Negro History Week" created?

• 1926

• 1933

• 1965

• 1950

Who was the first black Billionaire?

• Jay-Z

• Michael Jordan

• Robert Johnson

• Leroy Watkins

Who is the famous Playwright from Pittsburgh, who wrote the play "Jitney"?

• April Johnson

• Langston Hughes

• Billy Porter

• August Wilson

The______ Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship

What was Malcom X's real Last name?

• Little

• Willis

• Johnson

• Butler

What famous boxer was nearly jailed for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War?

• Mike Tyson

• Muhammad Ali

• Jack Johnson

• George Foreman

"Lift Every _____ and Sing" is known as the black national anthem

Langston Hughes was a.....

• Novelist

• Playwright

• Poet

• All of the above