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
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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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