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Black History Month Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which historian is responsible for the founding of Black History Month?

a)

Carter G. Woodson

b)

Fedrick Douglass

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Malcom X

2.

Before evolving into an entire month, Black History Month began as ______.

a)

Juneteenth

b)

Kwanzaa

c)

MLK Jr. Day

d)

Negro History Week

3.

Who invented the three-position traffic light?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Garret Morrison

c)

Garret Morgan

d)

Fredrick Jones

4.

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?

a)

Historical orderly

b)

Drugstore clerk

c)

High school cafeteria worker

d)

Department store seamstress

5.

Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Coretta Scott King

c)

Fannie Lou Hamer

d)

Rosa Parks

6.

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

a)

Leviticus Lewis

b)

Marcellus Moore

c)

Cassius Clay

d)

Aaron Brown

7.

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

a)

Woolworth's

b)

W.T. Grant

c)

G.C. Murphy

d)

S.S. Kresge

8.

Which player hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times?

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Barry Bonds

c)

Hank Aaron

d)

Willie Mays

9.

What was the first historically black college in America?

a)

Lincoln University

b)

Howard University

c)

Cheyney University

d)

Wiley College

10.

Who was the first Black American woman to win Miss America?

a)

Kenya Moore

b)

Nia Franklin

c)

Tyra Banks

d)

Vanessa Williams

11.

What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?

a)

A Different World

b)

Roots

c)

Sister Act

d)

Underground

12.

What neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”?

a)

Brooklyn Heights

b)

Greenwood

c)

Harlem

d)

Sweet Auburn

13.

Who was the first Black U.S. Secretary of State?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Maxine Waters

c)

Shirley Chisolm

d)

John Lewis

14.

Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

Fredrick Douglass

b)

Colin Powell

c)

Jesse Jackson

d)

Thurgood Marshall

15.

What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Roe v. Wade

d)

Dred Scott v. Stanford

16.

Which President officially recognized Black History Month?

a)

President Gerald Ford

b)

President Jimmy Carter

c)

President Richard Nixon

d)

President Ronald Reagan

17.

Before Barack Obama became President, which office did he hold?

a)

Mayor of Chicago

b)

U.S. Senator

c)

U.S. Representative

d)

Governor of Illinois

18.

Who was the first Black American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Maynard Jackson

d)

Phillis Wheatley

19.

In what city did the National Guard try to prevent nine black students from attending a segregated school in 1957?

a)

Atlanta, GA

b)

Birmingham, AL

c)

Little Rock, AR

d)

Selma, AL

20.

Who was the first Black American to attend an all-white school?

a)

Fannie Lou Hamer

b)

Katherine Johnson

c)

Mahalia Jackson

d)

Ruby Bridges