How Much Do You Know About African American History?

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