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BHM Review Quizzes

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

a)

Larry Doby

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Satchel Paige

d)

Ernie Banks

2.

Where was Malcolm X killed?

a)

Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan

b)

His House, Queens

c)

Downtown Boston

d)

Massachusetts State Prison

3.

Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

a)

Greensboro, North Carolina

b)

Atlanta, Georgia

c)

Jackson, Mississippi

d)

Charleston, South Carolina

4.

At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?

a)

About 1 Million

b)

About 2 Million

c)

About 500,000

d)

About 4 million

5.

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Ralph Bunche

c)

Albert John Lutul

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

6.

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?

a)

Edward Brooke

b)

Edward Brooke

c)

Carol Mosley Braun

d)

Hiram Revels

7.

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Charles Hamilton Houston

b)

Clarence Thomas

c)

William Henry Hastie

d)

Thurgood Marshall

8.

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

a)

Halle Berry

b)

Dorothy Dandridge

c)

Sidney Poitier

d)

Hattie McDaniel

9.

Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?

a)

"Blind Tom" Wiggins

b)

Aretha Franklin

c)

B.B. King

d)

Louis Armstrong

10.

What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?

a)

1865

b)

1872

c)

1867

d)

1862

11.

Who signed The Emancipation Act?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

James Buchanan

12.

With the 15th Amendment ratification in 1870, what did African Americans gain in the United States?

a)

Right to Sit Anywhere

b)

Right to Citizenship Status

c)

Voting Rights

d)

Freedom from Slavery

13.

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Rosa Parks

14.

An all white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?

a)

Emmett Till

b)

Medgar Evers

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

15.

Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

Lee Harvey Oswald

c)

James Earl Ray

d)

Gavrilo Princip

16.

Who became the first African American to graduate from Harvard University?

a)

Charles Hamilton Houston

b)

Richard Theodore Greener

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Thurgood Marshall

17.

The PGA was considered "Caucasian Only" until which golfer joined?

a)

Tiger Woods

b)

Pete Brown

c)

Charles Sifford

d)

Lee Elder

18.

Whose proposal that Congress consider civil rights legislation culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

John F. Kennedy

19.

Who established the first non-indigenous settlement of Chicago?

a)

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable

b)

Pedro Alonso Nino

c)

Joseph Moreno

d)

Sally Bayne

20.

Who broke three track and field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State?

a)

Carl Lewis

b)

Maurice Greene

c)

Michael Johnson

d)

Jesse Owens

21.

Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?

a)

Hair Straightening System

b)

Folding Bed

c)

Lip Stick

d)

Dry-Cleaning Process

22.

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American to become what?

a)

Army General

b)

Policeman

c)

Pilot

d)

Astronaut

23.

Before it became Black History Month what was the observance of Black History called?

a)

Slave History Week

b)

Negro History Week

c)

Freedom Day

d)

Black Rights Awareness Day

24.

What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?

a)

Our Times

b)

The Mississippi Enterprise

c)

Freedom's Journal

d)

Birmingham Times

25.

Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Carter G. Woodson

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Jesse Jackson