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WorksheetsBlack History Family Trivia
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company
New York City Ballet Theater
American Ballet Theater
Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Gordon Parks was voted "Photographer of the Year" in 1960 while working for what popular magazine?
Time
Life
Ebony
In what year did baseball great Hank Aaron break Babe's Ruth homeroom record?
1965
1974
1979
Who said, " Character, not circumstances, make the person?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Langston Hughes
Who said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
James Baldwin
John Lewis
Barack Obama
What was Madame C.J. Walker's real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
Clara Jean Walker
Cecelia Walker
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Where was Dr. Charles R. Drew born?
Atlanta , GA
New York, NY
Washington, DC
In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
Chattanooga, TN
Memphis, TN
Nashville, TN
Who was the first African-American to win a gold medal at 1908 Olympics in London?
Jesse Owens
Althea Gibson
John Baxter Taylor, Jr.
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, this sprinter was the first American woman to win three Gold Medals. Who was she?
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Althea Gibson
Wilma Rudolph
Ronald McNair, Charles Bolden, and Frederick Gregory pursued what profession?
Doctor
Architect
Astronaut
What is the oldest Black History Museum in Atlanta?
The King Center
The Atlanta History Center
The Apex Museum
How old was poet Amanda Gorman she wrote and delivered her inauguration speech?
19
21
22
Name the writer who won a Pulitzer Price chronicling his seven-generation family from West Africa in the Story Roots.
James Baldwin
Alex Haley
Langston Hughes
W.E. B. Du Bois was the first African-American to receive his Ph.D from Harvard in what year?
1800
1885
1895
Who said, "As I give, I get."
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Mary McLeod Bethune
What was Katherine G. Johnson known for?
Invented America's first clock
She was the first black female astronaut
Her calculations helped NASA's space program
Alice Walker's Meridian is a novel about what?
The Harlem Renaissance
American Revolution
Civil Rights Movement
In which decade did young African Americans start hip hop music?
1980s
1990s
1970s
In which year did President Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
1860
1865
1863
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America in 1984?
Whitney Houston
Halle Berry
Vanessa Williams
Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Human Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act
Who is considered the Father of Black History Month?
Frederick Douglas
Booker T. Washington
Carter G. Woodson
In what year did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. win the Nobel Peace Prize?
1955
1960
1964
What famous African-American Inventor created the super soaker water gun?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lonnie Johnson
Benjamin Banneker
This African American Woman and Civil Right Activist is consider the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Ida B. Wells
Shirley Chisolm
Ella Baker
Who was the first African American Woman and first African American candidate for a major party's nomination for President in 1972?
Maxine Waters
Shirley Chisholm
Carol Moseley Braun
Who became Georgia's first ever elected African American Senator elected in 2020?
Stacey Abrams
Kasim Reed
Rev. Raphael Warnock
Who is the former slave who founded Atlanta Life Insurance Company?
John Hope Franklin
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alonzo Herndon
