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April 23, 2024 Celebrate Black History Everyday!
1. The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 was:
Carol Mosley Braun Barbara Jordan Shirley Chisholm Patricia Roberts Harris
2. All of the following were well-known Black poets except:
Langston Hughes Arna Bontemps Phyllis Wheatley Sadie Alexander
3. Wilma Rudolph overcame scarlet fever and pneumonia, which left her crippled yet she emerged to win the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal in:
Ice Skating Track Tennis Volleyball
4. Which Miss America went on to become a veterinarian?
Vanessa Williams Kimberley Aiken Suzette Charles Debbye Turner
5. In 1970, he became the first Black person to direct a movie for a major Hollywood studio:
Sidney Poitier Harry Belafonte Gordon Parks Charles Mingus
6. His invention of an automatic traffic signal led to our present day traffic lights:
Phillip B. Downing Garret Morgan John Standard Thomas Stewart
7. What is the oldest historically Black university in the United States?
Lincoln University (Ashmun Institute--Oxford, PA) Lincoln College (Jefferson City, MO) Fisk University (Nashville, TN) Hampton University (Hampton Institute--Hampton, VA)
8. What year was the first Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday celebrated?
1981 1978 1993 1986
9. In 1960, what city became the first major metropolitan city to integrate its lunch counters?
San Antonio, TX Greensboro, NC Atlanta, GA New Orleans, LA
10. Walter Francis White became the head of which civil rights group in 1931?
SNCC NAACP SCLC CORE