African American History Month Quiz I
Below is an informational quiz for your own pleasure. Somebody sent it to me, and I thought it would be an excellent start for all of us to learn a little more about the history of Black people in America.
- Who told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1948 that he would urge black youths to resist the draft unless discrimination was banned?
- What was the only Southern state to permit slave enlistments in the military in 1780?
- What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
- Who was the first African American car manufacturer in 1916?
- What was the first all-Black religious denomination in the United States?
- Which European nation was the first to stop trading African slaves to the United States in 1794?
- Who organized the 1941 exhibition, "Afro-American Art on Both Continents," which included the works of Romare Bearden and the Delaney Brothers?
- Name the author who wrote The Third Life of Grange Copeland, published in 1970?
- Who was the three time Super Bowl champion player who returned to his Florida alma mater to receive his bachelor’s degree in 1996?
- Who wrote the script for the 1975 hit, Cooley High?
- Denzel Washington played in what 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Charles Fuller?
- Who was the only other black actress to win the Academy Award’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar since Hattie McDaniel in 1939?
- Who sang Martin Luther King, Jr.’s favorite gospel song, "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," after his funeral procession in 1968?
- When did James Del Rio become the first African American mortgage banker? 1953? 1976? 1989? 1947?
- In 1990 the Mystery Writers of America nominated this novel, written by Walter Mosley, as best of the year.
- By the eighteenth century, what colony was the leader in the slave trade?
- In what year did Harriet Tubman escape from slavery?
- Name an African American enterprise that you patronize.
- During the nineteenth century, how many states had laws prohibiting interracial marriage?
- Which state east of the Mississippi was the first to give African American women the right to vote, in 1913?
African American History Month Quiz II
- What was the nickname for the all-Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, which escorted Allied bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II?
- Who developed the first major African American-sponsored shopping center, Progress Plaza, in Philadelphia, Pa.
- The hymn, "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing," by James Weldon Johnson, was meant to celebrate whose birthday?
- A pitcher in the Negro Baseball League for 25 years, developer of the bat-badger, jumpball, and drooper, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971--name him.
- Besides being a movie director, composer, author and semi-pro basketball player, he was a photographer for Life magazine from 1948 to 1972.
- Having worked as an elevator operator for four dollars weekly, he achieved fame upon publication of Lyrics of Lowly Life in 1896.
- In what year did amateur night at New York’s famous Apollo Theater begin?
- Who holds the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?
- Despite a 1792 discriminatory law against Blacks in the new U.S. military, which of the country’s armed forces began to enlist free blacks in the 1790’s?
- What service did the first African American female millionaire, Madame C. J. Walker provide?
- What tennis champion and golfer earned her place in the Black Hall of Fame in 1974?
- This graduate of Yale Law School was appointed commissioner and chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Ronald Reagan in 1982.
- In this tribute to 1960’s R&B groups, Robert Townsend acted in and directed this movie—name it.
- Who founded the first major African American national union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
- Who won the Ladies World Figure Skating Championship in 1986?
- Name an African American enterprise that you patronize.
- A scholar of West Indian dance and culture, she also, originated the role of Georgia Browne in the 1940 Broadway musical, Cabin in the Sky.
- In what field was 44% of the doctorate degrees awarded in 1995 to African Americans, according to the National Research Council?
- Who founded the National Negro Business League?
- At age 76, this former slave and eminent scientist narrated a 1940 documentary dramatizing his struggles and successes to a young boy pondering the options for the future.