Honors Black History Month Trivia

What is your Eagle-ID?

Are you a Statesboro or Amstrong student?

• Armstrong

• Statesboro

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

• Larry Doby

• Satchel Paige

• Jackie Robinson

• Ernie Banks

Where was Malcom X killed?

• His house in Queens

• Downtown Boston

• Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan

• Massachusetts State Prison

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Charleston, South Carolina

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Greensboro, North Carolina

At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S?

• About 4 million

• About 2 million

• About 3 million

• About one million

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

• Nelson Mandela

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ralph Buchne

• Albert John Lutul

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S Senator?

• Hiram Revels

• Blanche K. Bruce

• Edward Brooke

• Carol Mosley Braun

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

• William Henry Hastie

• Thurgood Marshall

• Charles Hamilton Houston

• Clarence Thomas

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

• Halle Berry

• Sidney Poitier

• Dorothy Dandrige

• Hattie McDaniel