Black History Month Quiz

Who was the leader of the Civil Rights Movements from 1955-1968?

• Harriet Tubman

• Jackie Robinson

• Jesse Owens

• Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the name of the first black student at an all white school in Louisiana in the 1960s?

• Jackie Robinson

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Jesse Owens

Who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Harriet Tubman

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

Who won 4 gold medals in track at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, facing discrimination in Nazi Germany?

• Jesse Owens

• Jackie Robinson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ruby Bridges

Who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in 1947?

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Who freed approximately 300 slaves with the Underground Railroad in the 1870s?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Ruby Bridges

There were ______ black students who were the first students of color to enter a public school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

• 5

• 6

• 8

• 9

Ruby Bridges was _____ years old when she becane the first black student at an all white school.

• 6

• 7

• 5

• 9