Journey Through Black History Quiz

Who was the first African American woman to refuse to give up her seat on a bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Coretta Scott King

Which African American inventor is known for developing the three-light traffic signal?

• Lewis Latimer

• Garrett Morgan

• George Washington Carver

• Madam C.J. Walker

In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be set free, take effect?

• 1863

• 1865

• 1870

• 1859

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

• Maya Angelou

• Langston Hughes

• Toni Morrison

• James Baldwin

Who was the first African American President of the United States?

• Colin Powell

• Barack Obama

• Kamala Harris

• Jesse Jackson

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 African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada?

• The Freedom Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Liberty Line

• The Path to Salvation

Which African American artist is known for his series of paintings of the Great Migration?

• Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Jacob Lawrence

• Romare Bearden

• Henry Ossawa Tanner

Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963?

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Frederick Douglass

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Which African American inventor is credited with inventing the gas mask?

• Granville T. Woods

• Garrett Morgan

• Lewis Latimer

• Norbert Rillieux

What landmark Supreme Court decision 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

• Roe v. Wade