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Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?

Greensboro, North Carolina

Jackson, Mississippi

Selma, Alabama

Charleston, South Carolina

Who was the 1st Black star of a network TV show?

Bill Cosby

Micki Grant

Edward Brooke

Jennifer Jackson

What was the first African American owned-and-operated newspaper?

Freedom's Journal

The Mississippi Enterprise

Birmingham Times

Our Times

Whose proposal did Congress consider civil rights resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Dwight Eisenhower

Martin Luther King Jr.

Who shot Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968?

James Earl Ray

Gavrilo Princip

John Wilkes Booth

Lee Harvey Oswald

At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?

About 4 million

About 500,000

About 1 Million

About 2 Million

Where was Malcolm X killed?

Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan

Massachusetts State Prison

His House, Queens

Downtown Boston

Who is the first black female U.S. Secretary of State?

Condoleezza Rice

Rosa Parks

Michelle Obama

Coretta Scott King

What year did President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act?

1968

1963

1975

2000

Who was the FIRST black all star baseball player?

Jackie Robinson

Malcolm X

Barry Bonds

Martin Luther King Jr.

Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves?

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

Barack Obama

George Washington

What was the name of the first African-American female pilot?

Bessie Coleman

Aretha Franklin

Mildred Jeter

Mahalia Jackson

Who invented the means to preserve blood for a transfusion?

Charles Drew

Garrett Morgan

George Washington Carver

John Conyers

Which amendment extended voting rights to African Americans?

15th

12th

13th

14th

Who was the first African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

Clarence Thomas

John Roberts

Charles Houston

Who invented the first traffic light?

Garrett Morgan

George Washington Carver

Ralphe Bunch

Thomas Edison

What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?

1865

1927

1943

1895

Barack Obama is the ___ president of the United States?

44th

45th

51st

42nd

How many Grammy awards has Beyonce won?

20

31

16

18

Who was the first black Oscar winner?

Hattie McDaniel

Butterfly McQueen

Lupita Nyong'o

Halle Berry

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech?

Washington D.C, USA

Los Angeles, USA

Cape Town, South Africa

Toronto, Canada

Nelson Mandela became President of what country?

South Africa

Kenya

Ghana

Nigeria

What was Jackie Robinson’s baseball number?

42

54

33

31

Which African American refused to move bus seats on December 1, 1955?

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Junior

Antonio Brown

Julio Jones

Who was the female former slave that led other slaves to the underground railroad

Harriet Tubman

De'Aaron Fox

J. Cole

Jonathon Coleman

Dr. Dre is an African-American music artist who has an electronics brand called?

Beats

Beets

Boots

Dre's

What Supreme Court case banned segregation?

Plessy V. Ferguson

The People V. OJ Simpson

Brown V. Board of Education

Virginia V. King

Who invented Peanut Butter

George Washington Carver

Tiger Woods

Booker T. Washington

Colin Powell

What was the name of the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

SCLC

YMCA

MADD

NAACP

My name is George Crum I am an African-American inventor who invented what?

Potato Chips

Peanut Butter

Veggie Chips

Lay's