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WorksheetsBlack History Month Trivia Challenge
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was the African American who died at the American Revolution’s Boston Massacre and is considered by some as the first American casualty of the war?
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Chicken George
Crispus Attucks
Which African American performed the first successful human heart operation?
William Debaeke
Daniel H. Williams
Gerald Mayo
Harriet Tubman
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is also a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for, “Beloved” which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz.
Oprah Winfrey
Michelle Obama
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?
The Solution
The Crisis
Change is Now
The Black Man’s Dilemma
Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm’s aftermath affected African- Americans?
John Singleton
Jordan Peele
Spike Lee
Tyler Perry
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America’s oldest historically black college for women?
Towson University
Grambling State
Spelman College
Queens College
Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the center of black life through the 1930’s in what city?
Baltimore
Washington, D.C.
Harlem
Atlanta
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass?
The Harlem Herald
New York Times
The Abolitionist
The North Star
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally of about 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city in 1965?
Birmingham
Selma
Montgomery
Greensboro
Who is often called, “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fredrick Douglass
W.E.B. Dubois
Malcom X
