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Black History Trivia

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?

a)

Boys and Girls Club

b)

Madden

c)

YMCA

d)

YMCBA

2.

Who mas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s executive assistant?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Walker Texas Ranger

c)

Wyatt Tee Walker

d)

Wyatt Lee Walker

3.

Where did the "sit-in" movement begin?

a)

Greensboro

b)

Baltimore

c)

Detroit

d)

Lousiana

4.

How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom In 1799?

a)

He traveled the Underground Railroad

b)

He mailed himself up north

c)

He got in his boat & sailed to the north

d)

He won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom

5.

This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist and dramatist and historian. Name Him

a)

William Wells Brown

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

William T Ford

6.

Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia?

a)

William Tucker

b)

James Virginia

c)

Captain Sparrow

d)

William Washington

7.

Who helped form the "American Moral Reform Society", which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?

a)

Jameis Worthington

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

William S. Whipper

d)

Rosa Parks

8.

Who was honored as the pioneer of the nonviolent protest?

a)

William S. Whipper

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Jesse Jackson

9.

Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968?

a)

Jesse Washington

b)

William O. Dillard, Sr.

c)

William Millard Jr.

d)

Will Smith

10.

The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Azusa Street. Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black Holiness preacher?

a)

Future

b)

James Seymour

c)

Drake

d)

William J. Seymour

11.

What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund?

a)

Bartholomew Williams

b)

Gary Jenkins

c)

William H. Gray III

d)

James Jetson

12.

What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois?

a)

Will Du Bois

b)

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

c)

Willie Edwin Du Bois

d)

William Edward Burtholomew Du Bois

13.

Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?

a)

Vernon Jordan

b)

William Carney

c)

James Carnegay

d)

Lebron James

14.

In 1624 what was the first black child born in English America named?

a)

James Harden

b)

William Tucker

c)

PJ Tucker

d)

Drew Bledsoe

15.

Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city?

a)

California

b)

Washington, DC

c)

Oregon

d)

New York

16.

Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington's leadership and to protest against the lynchings and disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagra Movement was organized in Canada by what black middle-class intellectuals?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois & William Monroe Trotter

b)

Malcolm X & Jesse Jackson

c)

James Washington & George Washington

d)

Al Turner & Max Williams

17.

What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement?

a)

Bobby Jarnsky

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Barack Obama

18.

What state's government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661?

a)

Virginia's

b)

North Carolina's

c)

Alaska's

d)

South Carolina's

19.

In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?

a)

Michigan

b)

Virginia

c)

South Carolina

d)

Texas

20.

Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Barry Bonds

c)

Vernon Jordan Jr.

d)

Jamie Foxx

21.

What state was the first to abolish slavery?

a)

Texas

b)

North Carolina

c)

Vermont

d)

Lousiana