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WorksheetsBlack History Month Trivia: Round One
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 12mins
Who was the Supreme Court's first African American justice?
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Barack Obama
Emmett Till
Which young boy was murdered for accusations of offending a white woman in 1955?
Emmett Till
Louis Till
James Meredith
Frederick Douglass
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
James Morrison
Babe Ruth
Jack Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first African American President of the US?
Nelson Mandela
Barack Obama
Thurgood Marshall
Jackson Mills
What was the largest Civil Rights protest in America?
Civil War of 1865
March on Birmingham 1955
The March on Washington 1963
Civil Rights Movement 1967
Who was known for their "I Have A Dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
Timothy Barnes
Rosa Parks
Which African American was known for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus?
Michelle Obama
Sadie T.M. Alexander
Jesse Jackson
Rosa Parks
What was the date that Dr. King was assassinated?
November 21, 1966
April 3, 1968
January 22, 1950
April 4th, 1968
What crop first created a demand for slave labor in America?
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Corn
Who was the nation's first woman to earn a P.H.D. in Economics?
Lena Horne
Margert Yong Alexander
Sadie T.M. Alexander
Winona Cargile Alexander
What Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mapp v. Ohio
Gideon v. Wainwright
What is "Lift Ev'ry Voice & Sing" commonly referred to as?
The National Anthem
Black National Anthem
The New Age Anthem
What is America's Theme Song
At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 4 million
About 1 million
500,000
About 2 million
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1867
1872
1862
1865
With the Fifteenth Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the U.S.?
Voting rights for everyone
Voting rights for women only
Voting rights for men of all race, creed, or color
Voting rights for black people
Before it became Black History Month, what was the observance of Black History called?
Negro History Week
Black Rights Awareness Day
Freedom Day
Slave History Week
Who was the father of black history?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Carter G Woodson
Malcom X
Jessie Jackson
Who became the first African American woman to make a bid to be President of the United States when she ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972?
Rosa Parks
Coretta Scott King
Shirley Chisolm
Betty Shabazz
Who were the first group of students that integrated a high school located in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957?
The Little Rock Nine
The Freedom Riders
The Selma Marchers
The Southern Leadership Conference
Where was Muhammad Ali born?
Birmingham, Alabama
Indianapolis, Indiana
Louisville, Kentucky
Brooklyn, New York
What group launched the Freedom rides in 1961?
ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Leviticus Lewis
Marcellus Moore
Cassius Clay
Aaron Brown
Which city widely acknowledged is known as the birthplace of Hip Hop?
Houson Texas,
The Bronx, NYC
Brooklyn, NYC
Compton, L.A.
Who was NOT a founder of the NAACP?
Henry Moskowitz
Mary White Ovington
James Meredith
Ida B. Wells
Who is the most Grammy-nominated artist in the history of the awards with 76 nominations and 26 awards?
Quincy Jones
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Where was Malcolm X killed?
Downtown Boston
Massachusetts State Prison
His home in Queens
Audubon Ballroom
Who was the First African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Ralph Bunche
Albert John Lutul
Martin Luther King Jr
Nelson Mandela
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
Louis Armstrong
Aretha Franklin
Blind Tom
BB King
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Martin Luther King Jr
WEB Du Bois
Federick Douglas
Rosa Parks
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
WEB Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
Richard Theodore Greener
Charles Hamilton
