How Much Do You Know About African American History?

How Much Do You Know About African American History?

How Much Do You Know About African American History?

The sad truth is that most Americans know very little about African American History, their struggles, achievements, and triumphs throughout the decades. See if you know more than the average American with these facts that every American should know.
How much do you know about Black History? Take this quiz and find out!

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Question 1/30

Who is this civil rights leader?

Jesse Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X

Question 2/30

Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American:

Congressman
Senator
Supreme Court Justice

Question 3/30

Harriet Tubman was a prominent abolitionist and instrumental figure in establishing:

The Emancipation Proclamation
The Underground Railroad

Question 4/30

What were the Jim Crow laws?

State laws ending racial segregation
State laws enforcing racial segregation

Question 5/30

What did the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling do?

Started segregation in public schools
Ended segregation in public schools

Question 6/30

Who wrote Beloved, the Pulitzer-winning novel about slavery's aftermath?

Toni Morrison
Claudia Rankine

Question 7/30

Who is this abolitionist who wrote a famous autobiography?

Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott

Question 8/30

What is the name of the first black U.S. Air Force unit?

The 8th Fighter Wing
Buffalo Boys
Tuskegee Airmen

Question 9/30

Did African Americans fight in the Civil War?

Yes
No

Question 10/30

Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that invalidated laws prohibiting:

Interracial Adoption
Interracial Marriage
Segregated Workplaces

Question 11/30

Who is this iconic figure in the American Civil Rights movement?

Coretta Scott King
Rosa Parks

Question 12/30

What was the name of the document that freed the slaves across America?

The Slave Release Order
The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 13/30

What was the name for the payment required in order to vote prior to 1964, which was imposed mainly on black voters?

Poll Tax
Voter Registration Fee

Question 14/30

Who is this African American athlete who angered Hitler at the 1936 Olympics?

Jesse Owens
Usain Bolt

Question 15/30

What was the name for the racist housing policy that denied mortgage loans to black Americans?

Redlining
Blacklining

Question 16/30

What landmark anti-racist law did Martin Luther King Jr. help to pass in 1964?

The Civil Rights Act
Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 17/30

Who is this civil rights leader who was active in the 1960s?

Malcolm X
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 18/30

True or false: Obama was the first black presidential candidate nominated by a major party?

True
False

Question 19/30

Who is this iconic singer who changed the course of popular music?

Billie Holiday
Julie London
Toni Morrison

Question 20/30

Was the White House partly built by slaves?

Yes
No

Question 21/30

Which state removed the Confederate Flag from its capitol building after a racially-motivated shooting in a Charleston church?

South Carolina
Virginia

Question 22/30

True or false: Mississippi elected the first black person to the US Senate in the 1870s?

True
False

Question 23/30

Which state failed to ratify the 13th Amendment ending slavery until 2013?

Alaska
Pennsylvania
Mississippi

Question 24/30

Who is this 14-year-old boy who was lynched for speaking to a white woman?

Emmett Till
Michael Brown

Question 25/30

Who is the author of the award-winning novel of black life, "The Color Purple"?

Harriett Beecher Stowe
Alice Walker

Question 26/30

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to:

Be elected to Congress
Become governor of California
Run as a Republican Presidential Candidate

Question 27/30

Dred Scott was a slave who:

Shot Abraham Lincoln
Unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
Founded the Underground Railroad

Question 28/30

In 1950, could you be fired simply for being black?

Yes
No

Question 29/30

Who wrote 1852's influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Harriett Beecher Stowe
Harriett Tubman

Question 30/30

Who is this military and political figure?

Norman Schwarzkopf
Colin Powell

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