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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Afro-American : Black History

Introduction:
"Some common (and not so common) questions about African Americans who have made a significant impact on the entire world."


1. Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?
    Mary Mcleod Bethune
    Sojourner Truth
    Harriet Tubman
    Rosa Parks


2. What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
    Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)


3. What was Malcolm X's birth name?
    Malcolm Little
    Malcolm Shabazz
    Malcolm Poole
    Frederick Williams


4. Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Tubman
    Sojourner Truth
    Maria Stewart


5. Who founded PUSH?
    Rev. Jesse Jackson
    Malcolm X
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Elijah Muhammed


6. Whose autobiography is entitled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
    Nikki Giovanni
    Maya Angelou
    Alice Walker
    Toni Morrison


7. Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany?
    Wilma Rudolph
    Carl Lewis
    Jesse Owens
    Jackie Joyner Kersee


8. What boxer's original name is Cassius Clay?
    George Foreman
    Mike Tyson
    Muhammad Ali
    Sugar Ray Robinson


9. What former slave published the newspaper "The North Star"?
    David Walker
    William Wells Brown
    Frederick Douglass
    William Lloyd Garrison


10. Who was the first black woman to speak out publically against slavery?
    Maria Stewart
    Sojourner Truth
    Mary Mcleod Bethune
    Francis Watkins Harper


11. Who asassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
    Lee Harvey Oswald
    James Earl Ray
    John Wilkes Booth
    James Delay Beckwith


12. What primarily black female college was founded by two white women in Atlanta, Georgia?
    Spelman College
    Lincoln Institute
    Howard University
    Tuskegee Institute


13. Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?
    Medgar Evers
    Marcus Williams
    Marcus Garvey
    Emmet Till


14. What is the oldest civil rights organization still working today?
    Answer: (8 Words or 5 letters)


15. Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
    W.E.B. DuBois
    Booker T. Washington
    Marcus Garvey
    William Wells Brown


16. Who organized the Million Man March on October 16,1995?
    Elijah Muhammed
    Louis Farrakhan
    Malcolm X
    Martin Luther King, Jr.


17. Who wrote "Racism 101"?
    Terri McMillan
    Alice Walker
    Nikki Giovanni
    Toni Morrison


18. Who was the first female Egyptian Pharoah?
    Thutmosis
    Nefertiti
    Hatshepsut
    Cleopatra


19. Who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the '1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement'?
    Miss Fannie Lou Hamer
    Mary Mcleod Bethune
    Margaret Thatcher
    Mary Church Terrell


20. Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
    Elijah Mohammed
    Marcus Garvey
    Louis Walcott
    W.E.B. DuBois


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