African American History Quiz

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

• 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney

• Madame C.J. Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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?

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

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?

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