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Black History Month Bowl - WYAC 2021

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first Black woman in Congress and first Black person and first woman to seek the nomination of a major party for president?

a)

Shirley Chisholm

b)

Kamala Harris

c)

Condoleeza Rice

d)

Cori Bush

2.

Which woman was involved in the NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, and fought American school segregation and apartheid in South Africa?

a)

Fannie Lou Hamer

b)

Shirley Chisholm

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Ella Baker

3.

Which organization did WEB Du Bois help create?

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

d)

Democratic Socialists of America

4.

Which three people founded Black Lives Matter in 2013?

a)

Alicia Garza

b)

Brandy Norwood

c)

Patrisse Cullors

d)

Opal Tometi

5.

Which person was a director of the pro-Black shipping company the Black Start Line, which connected Africa to African-Americans?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Amy Ashwood Garvey

c)

Shirley Chisholm

d)

Assata Shakur

6.

Who is the wealthiest person to ever live?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Al Capone

c)

Jeff Bezos

d)

Mansa Musa

7.

Which of these people was imprisoned for fighting oppression in South Africa, then after his release, served as president of South Africa?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

WEB Du Bois

d)

St. Nicholas

8.

Which Black American female physicist and mathematician helped launch the first use of digital electronic computers for NASA?

a)

Katherine Johnson

b)

Katherine Dunham

c)

Katherine Creag

d)

Katherine Schwarzenegger

9.

How will you impact your community and/or the world?

4 lines
10.

Who was the first Black American to direct a major motion picture and the first Black photographer for Life magazine?

a)

Marvin Parks

b)

Gordon Parks

c)

Marvin Gordon

d)

Gordon Marvin

11.

What is the name of our Vice President, the first woman, Black person, and Indian person to serve in the role?

(a)  

12.

Who was a community advocate who helped her community by organizing a free breakfast program and health clinic, a member of the Black Panthers, and escaped prison?

a)

Chaka Khan

b)

Assata Shakur

c)

Angela Davis

d)

Alice Walker

13.

Which person co-organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

a)

Betty Shabazz

b)

Dorothy Height

c)

Delores Huerta

d)

Rosa Parks

14.

Who created the first United States steam engine big enough to power a warship and purchased his freedom with money earned from creating engines?

a)

Benjamin Banneker

b)

Benjamin Bradley

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Benjamin Simmons