The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by:
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Frederick Douglass
Answer: b
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed to end:
a) Segregation in schools
b) Forced labor
c) Discrimination based on race
d) Taxation without representation
Answer: c
The Underground Railroad was a network that helped enslaved people:
a) Secure jobs after emancipation
b) Escape to Canada
c) Establish their own farms
d) Join the military
Answer: b
The first African slaves arrived in English North America in:
a) 1492
b) 1619
c) 1776
d) 1865
Answer: b
Rosa Parks is best known for:
a) Being the first African-American president
b) Leading a march on Washington, D.C.
c) Refusing to give up her bus seat
d) Writing the “I Have a Dream” speech
Answer: c
The leader of the Nation of Islam who advocated for Black separatism was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Booker T. Washington
d) W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: a
The landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of “separate but equal” was:
a) Brown v. Board of Education
b) Dred Scott v. Sandford
c) Plessy v. Ferguson
d) Loving v. Virginia
Answer: c
The African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus before Rosa Parks was:
a) Fannie Lou Hamer
b) Harriet Tubman
c) Claudette Colvin
d) Coretta Scott King
Answer: c
The first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court was:
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Clarence Thomas
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Frederick Douglass
Answer: a
The African-American writer who authored “The Souls of Black Folk” was:
a) Toni Morrison
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: d
The African-American leader who advocated for vocational education and economic self-reliance was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Marcus Garvey
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Booker T. Washington
Answer: d
The African-American woman who became the first self-made female millionaire in the United States was:
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Ida B. Wells
c) Harriet Tubman
d) Madam C.J. Walker
Answer: d
The Civil Rights leader who inspired the 1963 March on Washington and delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Jesse Jackson
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Elijah Muhammad
Answer: c
The African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Claudette Colvin
c) Rosa Parks
d) Angela Davis
Answer: c
The African-American poet and playwright known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance was:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Richard Wright
c) Ralph Ellison
d) James Baldwin
Answer: a
The African-American woman who was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, known for her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, was:
a) Coretta Scott King
b) Angela Davis
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Rosa Parks
Answer: d
The first African-American President of the United States was:
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) Malcolm X
c) Jesse Jackson
d) Barack Obama
Answer: d
The African-American woman who was a prominent investigative journalist and anti-lynching activist was:
a) Sojourner Truth
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Ida B. Wells
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: c
The African-American leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated for Black nationalism and self-reliance was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Marcus Garvey
d) Frederick Douglass
Answer: c
The African-American woman who authored the novel “Beloved” and won the Nobel Prize in Literature was:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Alice Walker
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: c
The African-American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, challenging Hitler’s Aryan supremacy ideology, was:
a) Jesse Owens
b) Jackie Robinson
c) Muhammad Ali
d) Wilma Rudolph
Answer: a
The African-American woman who was a prominent figure in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and fought for both gender and racial equality was:
a) Fannie Lou Hamer
b) Rosa Parks
c) Harriet Tubman
d) Sojourner Truth
Answer: d
The African-American athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers was:
a) Hank Aaron
b) Jackie Robinson
c) Willie Mays
d) Muhammad Ali
Answer: b
The African-American woman who was a prominent abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and author of the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech was:
a) Harriet Tubman
b) Ida B. Wells
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Fannie Lou Hamer
Answer: c
The African-American woman who was the first female self-made millionaire in the United States and built her wealth through cosmetics and haircare products was:
a) Madam C.J. Walker
b) Maya Angelou
c) Oprah Winfrey
d) Angela Davis
Answer: a
The African-American leader who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and advocated for nonviolent civil disobedience was:
a) Malcolm X
b) W.E.B. Du Bois
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Marcus Garvey
Answer: c
The African-American woman who was a mathematician at NASA and played a key role in the success of the Apollo moon landing was:
a) Angela Davis
b) Maya Angelou
c) Mae Jemison
d) Katherine Johnson
Answer: d
The African-American poet known for his work “Let America Be America Again” and his association with the Harlem Renaissance was:
a) Langston Hughes
b) James Baldwin
c) Richard Wright
d) Ralph Ellison
Answer: a
The African-American leader who advocated for Black Power and self-defense, and was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was:
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) Malcolm X
c) Huey P. Newton
d) Jesse Jackson
Answer: b
The African-American writer and civil rights activist who authored “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Toni Morrison
d) Alex Haley
Answer: d
The African-American woman who was a leader in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and a co-founder of the Combahee River Collective was:
a) Audre Lorde
b) Angela Davis
c) Maya Angelou
d) Fannie Lou Hamer
Answer: a
The African-American leader who organized the “Black is Beautiful” movement and founded the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Marcus Garvey
d) Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Answer: d
The African-American athlete who famously raised his fist in a black power salute during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was:
a) Jesse Owens
b) Muhammad Ali
c) Tommie Smith
d) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Answer: c
The African-American leader who founded the Black Arts Movement and was known for his plays, poetry, and cultural activism was:
a) Langston Hughes
b) James Baldwin
c) Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
d) W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: c
The African-American woman who was a prominent singer, actress, and civil rights activist, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was:
a) Ella Fitzgerald
b) Billie Holiday
c) Lena Horne
d) Mahalia Jackson
Answer: c
The African-American leader who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and authored “The Souls of Black Folk” was:
a) W.E.B. Du Bois
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Booker T. Washington
d) Marcus Garvey
Answer: a
The African-American athlete known as “The Greatest” who won the world heavyweight boxing championship multiple times and was an activist was:
a) Jesse Owens
b) Jackie Robinson
c) Joe Louis
d) Muhammad Ali
Answer: d
The African-American leader who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and advocated for community programs and armed self-defense was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Huey P. Newton
d) Marcus Garvey
Answer: c
The African-American woman who was a prominent figure in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and co-founded the National Association of Colored Women was:
a) Fannie Lou Hamer
b) Ida B. Wells
c) Mary McLeod Bethune
d) Sojourner Truth
Answer: c
The African-American leader who was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first African-American mayor of Atlanta was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
c) Jesse Jackson
d) Andrew Young
Answer: d
The African-American woman who was a NASA mathematician and computer scientist, and whose story was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” was:
a) Angela Davis
b) Mae Jemison
c) Dorothy Vaughan
d) Katherine Johnson
Answer: d
The African-American leader who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was known for his role in Freedom Rides and voter registration campaigns was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Jesse Jackson
c) Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
d) John Lewis
Answer: d
The African-American writer who authored “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and was associated with the Harlem Renaissance was:
a) Toni Morrison
b) Maya Angelou
c) Alice Walker
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: d
The African-American leader who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and advocated for armed self-defense and revolutionary change was:
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Jesse Jackson
Answer: b
The African-American woman who was a prominent poet, writer, and civil rights activist, known for her works “On the Pulse of Morning” and “Still I Rise,” was:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Gwendolyn Brooks
c) Nikki Giovanni
d) Alice Walker
Answer: a
The African-American leader who was a prominent educator, author, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, was:
a) W.E.B. Du Bois
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Marcus Garvey
d) Booker T. Washington
Answer: d
The African-American leader and educator who was a key advocate for the creation of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was:
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Booker T. Washington
d) W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: c
The African-American writer and feminist who authored “The Color Purple” and advocated for women’s rights and gender equality was:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Toni Morrison
c) Alice Walker
d) Audre Lorde
Answer: c
The African-American leader who was a prominent figure in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and was instrumental in securing voting rights for women was:
a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Mary Church Terrell
Answer: c
The African-American musician known as the “King of Pop” who achieved worldwide fame for his music and iconic performances was:
a) James Brown
b) Prince
c) Stevie Wonder
d) Michael Jackson
Answer: d
