Black History

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1. Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955? Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. Sojourner Truth Rosa Parks Ida B. Wells

2. Who gave the "I have a dream" speech? Crispus Attucks Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King Christopher Columbus

3. Which President signed the Emancipation Proclamation? Abraham Lincoln Lyndon B. Johnson Georgge Bush Theodore Roosevelt

4. What is the fifteenth amendment? Blacks were given the right to vote Black men were given the right to vote Women were given the right to vote Black women were given the right to vote

5. When was Martin Luther King assassinated? 1967 1968 1964 1963

6. Who is the poet, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture? Frederick Douglass Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King James Weldon Johnson

7. Who was the former American slave, the first black to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives? Elizabeth Catlett James Weldon Johnson Joseph Hayne Rainey Edward Kennedy

8. Who was the first African American player in Major League Baseball? Joe Louis Satchel Paige Jackie Robinson Jack Johnson

9. What team did the first MLB African American baseball player play for? Angels Miami Heat Brooklyn Dodgers Cardinals

10. What Negro slave who became a naval hero for the Union in the American Civil War? Langston Hughes Duke Ellington Jim Crow Robert Smalls