Black History Month Trivia

Who is known as the "Father of Black History"?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Frederick Douglass

• Carter G. Woodson

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Black History Month is celebrated in February in the U.S. to honor the birthdays of which two historical figures?

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks and Booker T. Washington

Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ralph Bunche

• Barack Obama

• Nelson Mandela

Which Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Loving v. Virginia

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

• Rosa Parks

• Claudette Colvin

• Coretta Scott King

• Harriet Tubman

The March on Washington in 1963 is most famous for which speech?

• "Ain't I a Woman?"

• "I Have a Dream"

• "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

• "The Ballot or the Bullet"

Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?

• Dorothy Dandridge

• Hattie McDaniel

• Halle Berry

• Oprah Winfrey

Which African American athlete broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947?

• Jackie Robinson

• Satchel Paige

• Willie Mays

• Hank Aaron

Who wrote the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

• Alice Walker

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Toni Morrison

• Maya Angelou

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A secret abolitionist newspaper

• A code name for a rebellion

• A railroad built by enslaved workers

• A network to help enslaved people escape to freedom