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WorksheetsBlack History
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
Hospital orderly
Drugstore clerk
High school cafeteria worker
Department Store Seamstress
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
Coretta Scott King
Fannie Lou Hamer
Rosa Parks
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Leviticus Lewis
Marcellus Moore
Cassius Clay
Aaron Brown
What woman led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Oprah Winfrey
Shirley Chisholm
Harriet Tubman
Ruby Bridges
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Charley Pride
Thurgood Marshall
Dr.Martin Luther King JR.
Colin Powell
What African-American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Wilma Rudolph
Rosa Parks
Aretha Franklin
Oprah Winfrey
Who became the first black player in Major League Baseball in 1947?
Michael Jordan
Muhammad Ali
Charley Pride
Jackie Robinson
Who invented over 300 products from the peanut?
Wilt Chamberlain
Colin Powell
Dr. George Washington Carver
Thurgood Marshall
Who is the only African-American honored by a national holiday and gave a famous speech "I Have A Dream" during the March on Washington?
Muhammad Ali
Dr. Martin Luther King JR.
Barack Obama
Reverend Jesse Jackson
Who was the first African American person to support themselves as a writer?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Barack Obama
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Who was the first African American woman to travel to space?
Wilma Rudolph
Mae Jemison
Diana Ross
Oprah Winfrey
Which award did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receive in 1964?
Nobel Peace Prize
Humanitarian
Oscar
Grammy
Which of the following persons was a civil rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political career?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ronald McNair
Barack Obama
Frederick Douglas
Which famous African-American wrote several autobiographies about his experiences with slavery.
Lou Rawls
Benjamin Banneker
Clive Davis
Frederick Douglass
