Trailblazers and Milestones in Black History

Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era?

• Jackie Robinson

• Satchel Paige

• Hank Aaron

• Willie Mays

What was the name of the network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states?

• The Freedom Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Liberty Line

• The Path to Salvation

Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

• Maya Angelou

• Alice Walker

• Toni Morrison

• Gwendolyn Brooks

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed discrimination in which of the following areas?

• Employment

• Voter registration

• Public accommodations

• All of the above

Which U.S. Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Loving v. Virginia

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Who was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State?

• Condoleezza Rice

• Colin Powell

• Loretta Lynch

• Eric Holder

The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics centered in which neighborhood of New York City?

• Brooklyn

• Harlem

• The Bronx

• Queens

Which African American activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was also a prolific writer and the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

• Malcolm X

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was sparked by the arrest of which individual for refusing to give up her seat to a white person?

• Rosa Parks

• Claudette Colvin

• Coretta Scott King

• Ella Baker

Which African American astronaut was the first to travel into space?

• Mae Jemison

• Guion Bluford

• Charles Bolden

• Frederick D. Gregory