April 23, 2024              Celebrate Black History Everyday!    

BLACK HISTORY QUIZ  #2

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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