Black History Month

Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?

• Lauryn Hill

• Betty Wright

• Jill Scott

• Janet Jackson

Which of the following Fortune 500 companies recently pledged to move $100 million of its assets to a Black-owned bank?

• Apple

• Netflix

• General Motors

• Verizon

__ % of Black Americans start a business

True or false: there are more female Black-owned businesses than female-owned businesses in the general population.

• True

• False

Which civil rights activist gained notoriety in the late nineteenth century for her scathing editorials denouncing racial injustice?

• Toni Morrison

• Sojourner Truth

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Ida B. Wells

Who was Coretta Scott Kings' alleged "side piece"?

• Muhammad Ali

• Harry Belafonte

• Cesar Chavez

• Malcolm X

On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy ordered the National Guard to ensure the enrollment of two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, at which university?

• University of Alabama

• University of Chicago

• University of Georgia

• University of Mississippi

Born a slave, she nonetheless became the first published black poet in America.

• Natasha Trethewey

• Phillis Wheatley

• Maya Angelou

• Harriet Tubman

The Roaring Twenties introduced an unprecedented outpouring of black art, literature and music. What was this period known as?

• Art Deco

• 2nd Period

• Harlem Renaissance

• Reconstruction

Famously said on live national television "George Bush doesn't care about black people."