Black History Month Trivia: Final Round

These young men staged a "sit-in" at the Woolworth lunch counter on February 1, 1960.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The Greensboro 4

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• Jackie Robinson and George Washington Carver

Where is Nelson Mandela from?

• South Africa

• Georgia

• New York

• France

I was a poet who became a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.  My poems tell about African Americans and often contain jazz rhythms and dialect.

• Langston Hughes
• Jessie Owens
• Ruby Bridges
• Marcus Garvey

Why is Black Month History celebrated in Feburary?

• In honor of Frederick Douglass's birthday

• It evolved from National Negro History Week

• In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday

• In honor of National Freedom Day

• All of the above

T/F Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus only because she was tired.

• True

• False

The bestselling, award-winning book, The Color Purple was also a hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg.  The author is:

• Alice Walker
• Steven Spielberg
• Richard Wright
• Terry McMillian

Who was Shirley Chisholm?

• An African American singer

• An African American dancer

• the first African American women elected to Congress

• the first African American astronaut

Who was the first woman in any field to earn a doctorate from MIT?

• Kamala Harris

• Kimberly Bryant

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Valerie Thomas

What was legal separation of blacks and whites called?

• racism

• segregation

• separation

• abolition

Which phrase became a world-wide social movement and was a term coined by activist Alicia Garza?

• Me too

• Black Lives Matter

• Occupy Wall Street

• Make America Great Again