How Much Do You Know About African American History?

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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
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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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