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Black History Month
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promoted racial pride and self improvement? | Universal Negro Improvement and Association and African Communities League |
| What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves escape to freedom | Underground Railroad |
| The 1890s was called the "women's era" in black history because of the rise of the black women's clubs and movement. For what reasons were these clubs and associations formed | to provide social services and promote racial and gender equality for women in their communities |
| What attorney argued the case Abbington v. Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if Ms.Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit? | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who were the Exodusters? | Black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled in Kansas in 1879 |
| In February 1960 four students from Greensboro Agricultural and Technical College in North Carolina sat at a whites-only lunch counter and asked to be served. The waitress refused. What happened next? | The students waited and left at the end of the day. The next two days students from the college and from a local women's college formed a sit in. Spread all throughout the South. |
| What was the first serious uprising among slaves took place in 1738 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in S.C. to assemble and move freely? | Stono Rebellion |
| In the early nineteenth century, many slaves were converted to Christianity during this national religious revival during 1790-1830 that occurred throughout the plantations of the South | The Second Great Awakening |
| What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass | The North Star |
| In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what nondenominational religious association and mutual aid society? | the Free African Society of Philadelphia |
| Nashville's first ordained African American minister, Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000 members, the largest church in Tennessee during this time? | The First Colored Baptist Church |
| Inspired by the Atlanta child murders of the early 1980s, what James Baldwin book-length essay was published in 1985? | The Evidence of Things Not Seen |
| On January 1st, 1863 what significant declaration did President Lincoln issue | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a chief and called him "Bull's Robe" | The Crow |
| What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Jr. , founder of Mowtown Records? | $3.40 |
| What did William L Still organize in 1880 for Black youth? | YMCA |
| How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799? | Won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom |
| The slave narrator was also an anti-slavery lecturer, novelist dramatist and historian, Name him. | William Wells Brown |
| Who was the first black child born in colonial America at Jamestown, VA? | William Tucker |
| Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest | William S Whipper |
| Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968 | William O Dillard Sr. |
| The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Azusa Street Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black Holiness preacher | William J seymour |
| What influental Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund | William H Gray III |
| What was the full name of the NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois? | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
| Who was the first Black American to recieve the Congressional Medal of Honor | William Carney |
| Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US City? | Washington DC |
| Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T Washington's leadership and to protest against the lynchings and disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagara Movement was organized in Canada by what black middle-class intellectuals | W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter |
| What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement | W.E.B Du Bois |
| What state's government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661? | Virgina |
| Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League | Vernon Jordan Jr. |
| The first African American lawyer for a New Jersey State Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first African American inducted into what law school's Hall of Fame in 1997? | University of Kentucky Law School |
| James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500 million to be collected from white churches and synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black Americans | The Black Manifesto |
| What was the first learned society specifically devoted to the professional study of black history by Carter G. Woodson in 1915? | The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History |
| Which two black churches emerged from the Free African Society? | the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and St. Thomas's African Episocopal Church in 1794. |
| Founded before the American Revolution on the William Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River in Mecklenburg, Virgina the first known black church was what orgin? | the African Baptist or "Bluestone" Church |
| What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slae trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1520 and 1860? | The "Middle Passage" |
| Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee | Stokely Carmichael |
| In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a whites only lunch counter to protest discrimination | Staged a sit in |
| In 1972, Gordon Parks revieved what prestigious award presented by the NAACP | Springam Medal |
| What aincent statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion | Sphinx |
| Slaves were known to reolt against the slae system. In 1739 the Stono Rebellion occured in what colony? | South Carolina |
| What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in 1851 at a convention on women's rights in Akron, Ohio | Sojourner Truth |
| What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocated to the North? | Sojourner Truth |
| The black cowboys that came with white landowners who settled in Texas were usually what class of people? | Slaves |
| Paul Cuffe established a lucrative trade partnership with what African country? | Sierra Leone |
| What was the name of the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else's land and received a split of the season's crop | Sharecropping |
| What was the original reason for establishing the Black Panther Party? | Self-defense |
| What was the first Southern City to intergrate all of their public facilities | San Antonio, Texas |
| Who was known as the lack Daniel Webster? | Samuel Ward |
| What Black African American woman admitted to the Kentucky Bar | Sally J Seasls White |
| What Black American sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Who started the first Black American church in ermont | Rodney S Patterson |
| With whom did the term "Black Power" originate | Richard Wright |
| Was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom. He became the founder and bushop of the African Methodist Episcopal CHurch in 1816. Who is he? | Richard Allen |
| Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what scholarship and attended the University of Oxford, majoring in organic chemistry and graduating in 1975 | Rhodes Scholarship |
| The minister's given name is Frederick Eikerenkotten. He established the United Christian Evangelistic Association and was the first black minister with a television show. What is the name he is known by? | Rev. Ike |
| Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in 1843 that made people regard him as one of the most militant abolitionists? | Rev. Henry Garnet |
| Known as the "dean of black preachers" he became pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948 | Rev. Gardner C. Taylor |
| The flaf representing the Black Movement is comprised of what three colors | Red, Black, and Green |
| What terms describes the turbulent period of time marked by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of 1919 and lasted until the end of the year | Red Summer |
| What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War | Reconstruction |
| Born in Hopkinsville, KY, the youngest of twelve children, what student athlete declined football scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored in chemistry and math and graduated in 1973 | Raymond M Burse |
| After Marin Luther King Jr's death, who succeeded him as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Ralph Abernathy |
| What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the famous "poor people's campaign" in Washington DC | Ralph Abernathy |
| What did many associate with the term "Jim Crow"? | Racial Segregation |
| During the 1960s, what erupted in Philadelphia, Chicago and other major cities due to the turbulent social and political climate | Race riots |
| Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863? | President Abraham Lincoln |
| Geoge Washington commended what Black American women for her literary achieements? | Philis Wheatley |
| In what city was the first National Negro Convention held? | Philadelphia |
| Who were the "Freedom Riders"? | People who rode segregated buses and trains |
| The PUSH in Operation PUSH founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson, stand for what? | People United to Serve Humanity |
| What was the name for Father Divine's movement, which emphasized social equality? | Peace Missions |
| Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the offical publication of the National Urban League is called what? | Opportunity |
| Between 1915 and the mid 1920s approximately how many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the North and the West as part of the Great Migration? | One Million |
| In 1955, who became the first African American graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School? | Ollen B Hinnant, II |
| The Black Panther Party was founded in what California city? | Oakland |
| Dr.Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to win what prestigious award? | Novel Peace Prize |
| What African country has the largest population? | Nigeria |
| In what city was Malcolm X arrested? | New York City |
| What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures? | New Orleans |
| What Kentucky slave freed in 1845 became the first ordained African American minister in Nashville, Tennessee | Nelson G. Merry |
| Whitney Young advocated civil rights reform through what organization? | National Urban League |
| Dorothy Height was the president of what organization? | National Council of Negro Women |
| Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder and president of what national association? | National Council of Negro Women |
| In 1909, W.E.B Du Bois co-founded what national organization? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
| What does the acronym NAACP stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| In 1949 what religious movement did Malcolm X join? | Nation of Islam |
| In 1841 Frederick Douglass began his career as an abolitionist orator in what town? | Nantucket |
| Who was the first African American missionary worker and an organizer of the Oliver Baptist Church, one of the largest African American churches in Chicago | Nancy Green |
| Booker T Washington was opposed to the founding of what organization in 1909? | NAACP |
| Who became the first women to chair the NAACP | Myrlie Evers-Williams |
| What famous narrative was written by Solomon Northrup, a fugitive slave | My Bondage & My Freedom |
| By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40 what nickname had he received from the press? | Mr.Civil Rights |
| What was the nickame given to Harriett Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves | Moses |
| Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a rally of about 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city in 1965 | Montgomery, Alabama |
| What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory? | Missouri Compromise |
| As of July 1, 2007, which state at 38%, had the highest percentage black population? | Mississippi |
| What civil rights leader from Mississippi was slain in 1963 | Medgar Evans |
| He worked for the NAACP and became the first field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June 1963. Who was he? | Medgar Evers |
| In what state was Black nationalist Paul Cuffe born? | Massachusetts |
| Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 after six years of planning | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| Who was referred to as Black Mary or Stagecoach Mary | Mary Feilds |
| Who is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Struggle in California | Mary Ellen Plesant |
| "Lifting as we climb" was the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's first president. | Mary Eliza Church Terrell |
| What is the name of the memorial center of which Coretta Scott King was Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer | Martin Luther King Jr Center for Nonviolent Struggle |
| She helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women in 1896 and was known as the lady principal of Tuskegee. Who was this wife of Booker T Washington | Margaret Murray Washington |
| Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | Marcus Garvey |
| Who founded the first major Black American nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa? | Marcus Garvey |
| What black leader promoted a national movement similar in concept to Paul Cuffe's? | Marcus Garvey |
| What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965 | March on Selma |
| After a trip to Mexxa in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Jajj Malik El-Shabazz | Malcolm X |
| What devote follower of Elijah Muhammad left the Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group called Muslim Mosque? | Malcolm X |
| What Black American allowed Gordon Parks and Life magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim Movement | Malcolm X |
| What was Malcolm X's given name? | Malcolm Little |
| The Bible called her "the queen of sheba" what was the african queen called by her people | Makeda |
| What was the name of the Indian leader who became a model for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's non-violent and peaceful movement? | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Many rural black Kentuckians came to what city in Kentucky after the Civil War to escape white vigilante groups | Louisville |
| Dr.Martin Lither King Jr was fatally shot on the balcony of what hotel and city 1968 | Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee |
| In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in what city? | London |
| Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published what periodical in 1831? | The Liberator |
| Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executive in 1800 for what reason? | Leading a slave revolt |
| Which black town in New jersey was originally named Free Haven | Lawnside |
| Who was the first African American postmaster in Kentucky and the second in the United States | Laura Young |
| Jorno Kenyatta was a leader of what country? | Kenya |
| Which state was the first in the South to have a trained African American librarians and the first to have a library training program for African American librarians in 1912? | Kentucky |
| "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" was a speech delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by what abolitionist orator? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who is often called "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement" | Frederick Douglass |
| Born in 1916, whom served as the first president of the Hopkinsville civil group Pioneers Inc.? | Francis E. Whitney |
| For what is Gloria Dean Randle Scott remembered? | First black president of the Girl Scouts of America |
| In the 1930s this federal organization compiled testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that were published in the 1970s. Name the organization. | Federal Writers Project |
| Who was the first American born Black man to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest? | Father Tolton |
| Who was recognized as the "First Lady of Civil Rights" | Eugene A. Marino |
| He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim leader's Islamic name? | Elijah Muhammad |
| Who was the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975? | Elijah Muhammad |
| Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what country? | Egypt |
| What Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The Negro politician, his success and failure; Martin Luther King: the peaceful warrior; and the SCLC Story | Edward T Clayton |
| President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1968 to what great musician | Duke Ellington |
| He became pastor a Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem in 1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Who is he? | Dr.Wyatt Tee Walker |
| Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize i 1950? | Dr.Ralph Bunche |
| On January 3 1964, who did Time Magazine name as the first Black American "Man of the Year"? | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who founded the Southern Leadership Conference | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| He was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate of the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Who was he? | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who recieved the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988? | Dorothy Height |
| What was the name of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr's first church | Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| This Historian founded many journals, among them was the Journal of Negro History in 1916 | Carter G. Woodson |
| Who is known as the "Father of Negro History" documenting African-American stories and achievements through use of innovative research approaches including legal records diaries and oral histories- methods that have since been widely adopted by historians | Carter G Woodson |
| Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were known collectively as what? | The Women's Army Corps (or WAC) |
| Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was the first black general of which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces? | the U.S. Army |
| What was the largest black unit in the Korean War? | The Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment |
| In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther King Day | 1993 |
| Sparked by the state court acquittal of four police officers involved in the Rodney King beating, the Los Angeles Riot were sparked in what year? | 1992 |
| In what year was a national holiday proclaimed commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr's Birthday? | 1983 |
| In what year did Black History Month offically begin | 1976 |
| In what year was Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated? | 1963 |
| The historic March on Washington occurred in what year | 1963 |
| In what year did Alain Leroy Lock become the first Black American to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship | 1940 |
| The NAACP was organized in what year with black and whites as members? | 1909 |
| In what year did Black attorney John Swett Rock practice before the U.S. Supreme Court | 1865 |
| In what year did the U.S. abolish slavery | 1865 |
| Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp? | Booker T Washington |
| A 50 cent coin was introduced in 1946 that honored what famous Black American? | Booker T Washington |
| This man presented the speech "Atlanta's Exposition Address" at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in 1895. Name him. | Booker T Washington |
| Who did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr call "My Spiritual Advisor"? | Benjamin E. Mays |
| Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor of the Underground Railroad? | Barney Ford |
| Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal publication Harvard Law Review | Barack Hussein Obama. II (Barack Obama) |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born in what city in 1929? | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Who became the first Black American awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1940 | Alain Leroy Locke |
| Richard Allen was the first bishop of what is now the oldest Black established church in the United States. What is the name of the church? | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a congressman, and civil rights advocate. Who was he? | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
| Who was the first Black minister ordained in America? | Absalom Jones |
| What was Sojourner Truth's name when she was a slave in Ulster County, New York? | Isabella Baumfree |
| Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked "Whites Only" | Ida B Wells |
| What Jesse Jackson chant was repeated by his supporters with a feeling of pride? | I Am Somebody |
| Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? | Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale |
| Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she intended to take north to freedom on the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| What New York neighborhood was known as the "Negro Capital of the World' | Harlem |
| In 1961, W.E.B Du Bois renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of what country? | Ghana |
| In 1961, groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to rest desegregation of buses and restaurants. By what name was this group known? | Freedom Riders |
| In 1865 Congress a relief agency to administer to the needs of former slaves. What was it called? | Freemen's Bureau |
| Who started the Gold Medal Awards, later named for him, which recognized the highest or noblest achievement by a black American | Joel E Springarn |
| Who founded an economic program called "The People United To Save Humanity" | Jesse Jackson |
| Who was the founder of CORE< the Congress of Racial Equalirt | James Farmer |
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