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WorksheetsBlack History
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who am I?
a)
John Lewis
b)
John James
c)
Fred Shuttlesworth
d)
James Bevel
2.
I was appoint FBI Director for life who am I?
a)
Bull Conner
b)
J. Edgar Hoover
c)
Orval Faubus
d)
George Wallace
3.
I said "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
a)
George Wallace
b)
Roy Moore
c)
Jeff Sessions
d)
Bull Conner
4.
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
a)
Separate But Equal Law
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
De Jure Separation
d)
Racism
5.
Who was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Fredrick Dougless
d)
Eli Whitney
6.
Which of these famous books stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the United States before the Civil War?
a)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
b)
Huckleberry Finn
c)
Little Women
d)
Gone With The Wind
7.
What famous event took place during the March on Washington?
a)
The Black Panthers were founded
b)
African Americans were given the right to vote
c)
Martin Luther King Jr. gave "I have a dream speech"
d)
Robert Kennedy gave a eulogy
8.
What civil rights leader wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," which argued the case for "civil disobedience"—the moral duty for individuals to disobey unjust laws?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
John Lewis
9.
Which famous Supreme Court case in 1896 declared that segregation was legal and constitutional, as long as segregated facilities were "separate but equal?"
a)
Browns vs. Board of Education
b)
Dred Scott vs Sandford
c)
Plessy vs Ferguson
d)
USA vs Martin Luther King Jr.
10.
Which famous Supreme Court Case led to the desegregation of schools?
a)
Bakke vs. Regents of California
b)
Linda Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
c)
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
d)
James Brown vs. Mississippi Board of Education
11.
Who were the "Little Rock Nine?
a)
An early soul group that sang civil rights protest songs
b)
A group of nonviolent civil rights marchers who were arrested and imprisoned
c)
A group of black students who bravely worked to desegregate all white Central High School in Little Rock Ark
d)
A native american tribe
12.
Who is this member of the "Little Rock Nine"
a)
Elizabeth Eckford
b)
Minnijean Brown-Trickey
c)
Melba Pattillo Beals
d)
Gloria Ray Karlmark
13.
What is an abolitionist?
a)
A person who believed slavery was just and fair
b)
A person who wanted to end slavery
c)
A person who wanted to secede from the North
14.
Who is this member of the "Little Rock Nine"
a)
Melba Pattillo Beals
b)
Carlotta Walls LaNier
c)
Thelma Mothershed-Wair
d)
Elizabeth Eckford
15.
Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Jackie Robinson
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Booker T. Washington
16.
What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?
a)
Delaware
b)
Mississippi
c)
Virginia
d)
Washington
17.
Which of these honors was Martin Luther King Jr. "not" awarded
a)
Nobel Peace Prize
b)
Congressional Gold Medal
c)
Presidential Medal of Freedom
d)
Freedom Award
18.
Who was the first African-American head coach in the NFL?
a)
Tony Dungy
b)
Fritz Pollard
c)
Ray Rhodes
d)
Art Shell
19.
True or false: The first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was white.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
Who was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that upheld the legal doctrine of "separate but equal?
a)
Oliver Brown
b)
Homer Plessy
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Theodore S. Wright
21.
Who was the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
a)
William DeHart Hubbard
b)
Jesse Owens
c)
George Poage
d)
John Taylor
22.
In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?
a)
Oxford, Miss.
b)
Columbia, S.C.
c)
Little Rock, Ark.
d)
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
23.
How many African-Americans have served in the United States Senate since it first convened in 1789?
a)
10
b)
27
c)
81
d)
112
24.
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
a)
Ebenezer Baptist
b)
Atlanta Southern Baptist
c)
Southern Church of the People
d)
Atlanta Tabernacle
25.
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
a)
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union
b)
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
c)
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
d)
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
26.
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
a)
Hospital orderly
b)
Drugstore clerk
c)
High school cafeteria worker
d)
Department store seamstress
27.
SNCC member Stokely Carmichael was instrumental in forming the Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama. What was its symbol?
a)
A balance scale
b)
The letters MLK
c)
A black panther
d)
A raised fist
28.
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
a)
Maya Angelou
b)
Coretta Scott King
c)
Fannie Lou Hamer
d)
Rosa Parks
29.
What was Muhammad Ali's original name
a)
Leviticus Lewis
b)
Marcellus Moore
c)
Cassius Clay
d)
Aaron Brown
30.
In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
a)
Woolworth's
b)
W.T. Grant
c)
G.C. Murphy
d)
S.S. Kresge
31.
What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.
a)
Hank Aaron
b)
Bob Gibson
c)
Ernie Banks
d)
Willie Mays
32.
Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?
a)
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
b)
American Federal of Teachers
c)
Communications Workers of America
d)
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
33.
Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?
a)
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
b)
Stokely Carmichael
c)
John Lewis
d)
Bobby Seale
34.
WHICH MOTOWN SINGER PENNED THE TUNE "MERCY, MERCY ME (THE ECOLOGY)," A SONG OF SORROW ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT?
a)
Diana Ross
b)
Smokey Robinson
c)
Gladys Knight
d)
Marvin Gaye
35.
TRUE OR FALSE: KNOWN AS THE "PLANETWALKER," AFRICAN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST JOHN FRANCIS BOYCOTTED MOTORIZED VEHICLES FOR 22 YEARS, OPTING TO WALK EVERYWHERE INSTEAD.
a)
True
b)
False
36.
TRUE OR FALSE: THE MODEL FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE, OR CSA, PROGRAMS WAS INSPIRED BY CHEFS IN NEW YORK CITY.
a)
True
b)
False
37.
TRUE OR FALSE: IN ADDITION TO CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALITY, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.
a)
True
b)
False
38.
TRUE OR FALSE: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, FAMOUS FOR INVENTING HUNDREDS OF NEW USES FOR THE PEANUT, WAS A FAN OF COMPOSTING.
a)
True
b)
False
39.
TRUE OR FALSE: LISA PEREZ JACKSON WAS NAMED THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) IN 1995.
a)
True
b)
False
40.
TRUE OR FALSE: IN ADDITION TO LEADING HUNDREDS OF SLAVES TO FREEDOM ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, HARRIET TUBMAN WAS ALSO A NURSE WHO LOOKED TO NATURE TO FIND CURES FOR MAJOR ILLNESSES OF HER TIME.
a)
True
b)
False
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