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Black History

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

a)

1875

b)

1863

c)

1854

d)

1867

2.

What law outlaws segregation and discrimination on the basis of race?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

24th Amendment

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1960

3.

Who most notably led the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa?

a)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Nelson Mandela

4.

Who was the first black person to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

Clarence Thomas

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Sonia Sotomayor

d)

Greg Mathis

5.

Who was the first woman to run for president of the United States

a)

Shirley Chisholm

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Elizabeth Warren

d)

Cynthia McKinney

6.

Who was the first self-made female millionaire in the United States?

a)

Oprah Winfrey

b)

Mary Ellen Pleasant

c)

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

d)

Madam C.J. Walker

7.

Who was the first black person to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era?

a)

Adam Jones

b)

Andrew McCutchen

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

David Price

8.

True or False- Black History Month started out as “Negro History Week” in 1926 until it became Black History Month in 1976.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Who was the first black president of the United States?

(a)  

10.

Who was the wealthiest person of the Middle Ages?

a)

Musa I of Mali AKA Mansa Musa

b)

Aliko Dangote

c)

Bob Johnson

d)

King Tutankhamun