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WorksheetsJanuary 2019 Trivia: Black History
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 1hrs 21mins
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Ernie Banks
Larry Doby
Satchel Paige
Jackie Robinson
Where was Malcolm X killed?
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
Downtown Boston
Massachusetts State Prison
His House, Queens
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Atlanta, Georgia
Charleston, SC
Greensboro, NC
Jackson, MS
At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 1 million
About 4 million
About 500,000
About 2 million
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Martin Luther King Jr
Nelson Mandela
Ralph Bunche
Albert John Lutul
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Edward Brooke
Hiram Revels
Carol Mosley Braun
Blanch K. Bruce
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
William Henry Hastie
Charles Hamilton Houston
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Sydney Poitier
Halle Berry
Hattie McDaniel
Dorothy Dandridge
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
B.B. King
Louis Armstrong
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
Aretha Franklin
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1867
1862
1872
1865
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?
Right to Citizenship
Voting Rights
Freedom from Slavery
Freedom to Sit Anywhere
An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Medgar Evers
Martin Luther King Jr
Emmitt Till
Malcolm X
Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
John Wilkes Booth
Gavrilo Princip
The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?
Tiger Woods
Lee Elder
Charles Sifford
Pete Brown
Whose proposal that Congress consider civil rights legislation culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr
John F. Kennedy
Where did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a passenger?
on a Birmingham bus
on an Atlanta bus
on a Montgomery bus
On a Charleston bus
