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1. What year did the first Africans arrive in the Americas?
2. What year was slavery introduced in the Americas?
3. Where was the first formal protest against slavery?
4. What state was the first to abolish slavery?
5. In what state was there a failed effort to overthrow slavery?
6. How many slaves did Harriet Tubman rescue between 1840-61?
7. In what year did Abraham Lincoln issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
8. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
9. In what year was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded?
10. Did President Truman abolish segregation in the military?
11. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do in 1955?
12. In what year were Federal troops ordered to Oxford, Mississippi?
13. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I have a dream" speech?
14. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. win in 1964?
15. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
16. When did the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama take place?
17. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
18. In what year was the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. first celebrated as a national holiday?
19. In what year was the Million Man March?
20. What does Kwanzaa mean?
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