WorksheetsBHM Review Quizzes
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Larry Doby
Jackie Robinson
Satchel Paige
Ernie Banks
Where was Malcolm X killed?
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
His House, Queens
Downtown Boston
Massachusetts State Prison
Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
Greensboro, North Carolina
Atlanta, Georgia
Jackson, Mississippi
Charleston, South Carolina
At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 1 Million
About 2 Million
About 500,000
About 4 million
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Nelson Mandela
Ralph Bunche
Albert John Lutul
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke
Carol Mosley Braun
Hiram Revels
Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?
Charles Hamilton Houston
Clarence Thomas
William Henry Hastie
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
Halle Berry
Dorothy Dandridge
Sidney Poitier
Hattie McDaniel
Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
Aretha Franklin
B.B. King
Louis Armstrong
What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?
1865
1872
1867
1862
Who signed The Emancipation Act?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?
Right to Sit Anywhere
Right to Citizenship Status
Voting Rights
Freedom from Slavery
Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?
Martin Luther King Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Rosa Parks
An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?
Emmett Till
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
James Earl Ray
Gavrilo Princip
Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?
Charles Hamilton Houston
Richard Theodore Greener
W. E. B. Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?
Tiger Woods
Pete Brown
Charles Sifford
Lee Elder
Whose proposal that Congress consider civil rights legislation culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Who established the first non-indigenous settlement of Chicago?
Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable
Pedro Alonso Nino
Joseph Moreno
Sally Bayne
Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?
Carl Lewis
Maurice Greene
Michael Johnson
Jesse Owens
Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?
Hair Straightening System
Folding Bed
Lip Stick
Dry-Cleaning Process
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?
Army General
Policeman
Pilot
Astronaut
Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?
Slave History Week
Negro History Week
Freedom Day
Black Rights Awareness Day
What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?
Our Times
The Mississippi Enterprise
Freedom's Journal
Birmingham Times
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Malcolm X
Carter G. Woodson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jesse Jackson
