African American History Quiz TRHS

When did the first African American woman graduate from a nursing school in the United States?

• 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney

• 1881, Rebecca Lee Crumpler

• 1890, Harriet Tubman

• 1905, Sojourner Truth

Madame C.J. Walker became America's first self-made female millionaire in 1910. What item or items lead to her accomplishment?

• Beauty and hair products for black women

• Real estate investments

• Culinary inventions

• Literary works

What was the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma also known as in 1921?

• Black Wall Street

• Freedom District

• Liberty Town

• Prosperity Avenue

When did Rosa Parks refuse to move out of her seat on the bus?

• December 1955

• November 1956

• October 1954

• January 1957

Fifteen jockeys rode in the very first Kentucky Derby. How many of the fifteen were African American?

• 13

• 10

• 8

• 5

In 1870 what state elected the first African American to be seated as a representative in the United States Congress?

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Louisiana

Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?

• Colin Powell

• Condoleezza Rice

• L. Douglas Wilder

• Thurgood Marshall

Billie Holiday, known as lady day, was one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century. She is best known for the song strange fruit. What was this strange fruit a metaphor for?

• The lynching of African Americans

• The struggle for civil rights

• The beauty of African American culture

• The hardships of love

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clarence Thomas

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

This woman did not give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955 and was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Coretta Scott King