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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| List 4 of the Marquess of Queensbury boxing rules: | 24 foot rings, gloves, 3 minute rounds, 1 minute rest between rounds, no wrestling |
| What year did John. L Sullivan fight his first heavyweight championship fight? | 1882 |
| Who did John L. Sullivan fight in his first heavyweight championship fight? | Paddy Ryan |
| After the championship fight, Sullivan took a journey around America giving speeches and fights. This was called: | "The Grand Tour" - 1883/84 - 26 states |
| John L. Sullivan fought Jake Kilrain in what year? | 1889 |
| How long did Sullivan/Kilrain fight last? | 75 rounds |
| In 1892, Sullivan lost the heavyweight title to which fighter? | James J. Corbett - "Gentlemen Jim" |
| What year was Jack Johnson born? | 1878 |
| Where was Jack Johnson born? | Galveston, Texas |
| What is a battle royal? | 10-12 black guys in a boxing ring with hoods on covering their heads. It was a form of entertainment for white men and the last man standing was the winner. |
| Jack Johnson's opponent in his first professional fight? | Charley Brooks |
| The Jewish fighter arrested with Jack Johnson: | Joe Choyinski |
| What happened between Johnson and Choyinski in jail? | Choyinski mentors and teaches Johnson how to become more of a professional boxer; they become good friends. |
| Who did Johnson beat to become the World Colored Heavyweight Champion? | Denver Ed Martin |
| Who is the only boxer to hold the light, middle & heavyweight championships? | Robert Fitzsimmons |
| Where was Tommy Burns born? | Canada |
| What was Tommy Burns nickname? | "The Little Giant of Hanover" |
| What date did Jack Johnson fight Tommy Burns for the championship? | December 26th, 1908 |
| Who was Jack Johnson's childhood hero? | Steve Brodie |
| What did Steve Brodie claim to do? | Jump off the Brooklyn bridge and survive. |
| What law did President Grant set, that puting voting under Federal control? | The Force Acts |
| The 3 states that contested the 1876 election: | South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana |
| What was the compromise of 1877: | Pulling all troops out of the south, ending reconstruction to resolve the disputed 1876 US election. |
| What did the grandfather clause say? | "If your grandfather could vote, you can vote. If he could not, then you could not." |
| What was the law that said that blacks had to ride in separate cars? | "The Separate Car Act" - 1890 |
| Who was the layer that challenged the separate car act? | Albion Tourgee |
| What year did Homer Plessy refuse to move his seat on the train? | 1892 |
| Who was the supreme court justice that sided with Plessy? | John Marshall Harlon was the only 1 out of 9 |
| Out of the Plessy v. Ferguson case came the doctrine of: | "Separate But Equal" |
| Booker T. Washington was the leader of which school? | Tuskegee Institute |
| In 1892, Washington starts this group to encourage black owned businesses: | The National Negro Business League |
| What book did Booker T. Washington write? | "Up From Slavery" |
| Explain the Atlanta Compromise: | Booker T. Washington gave a speech called the "Atlanta Compromise" in 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia. He acknowledges the term "separate but equal" and in a way sells out to the white men. |
| In 1903, Washington met with which president? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| W.E.B. DuBois was one of the first African-Americans to graduate from this University: | Harvard University |
| Explain the concept of the talented 10th: | W.E.B. DuBois claimed that 1 out of 10 people will be leaders; doctors, lawyers, politicians and break through racism. The other 9 need to be lifted up by the 1. |
| DuBois first movement to African-Americans: | The Niagara Movement |
| Name of the newspaper for the NAACP? | The Crisis |
| What state was the KKK formed in? | Tennessee |
| What state did the Plessy case occur in? | Louisiana |
| Booker T. Washington's nickname? | "The Great Accommodator" |
| The idea of finding a white boxer to beat Jack Johnson was called: | The Great White Hope |
| Stanley Ketchell's fight name: | The Michigan Assassin |
| Date of Ketchell/Johnson fight: | October 16th, 1909 |
| Date of Jim Jeffries/Johnson fight: | July 4th, 1910 |
| Where did the Jeffries/Johnson fight take place? | Reno, Nevada |
| Who was the promoter of the Jeffries/Johnson fight? | Tex Rickard |
| In the fight, what would Johnson be called? | The Negro's deliverer |
| In the fight, what would Jeffries be called? | The Hope of the White Race |
| After the Jeffries/Johnson fight, in how many states were there riots? | 25 states |
| This act forbade the transportation of women in interstate travel purposes of prostitution? | White Slave Traffic Act |
| What was the nickname for the White Slave Traffic Act? | The MANN Act; named after the guy who passed the law |
| Name of the judge in Jack Johnson's trial: | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis |
| Who is the only boxer to defeat Jack Johnson? | Jesse Willard |
| What was Jesse Willard's fight name? | The Pottawattamie Giant |
| Where did Willard vs Johnson fight take place? | Havana, Cuba |
| How long was Jack Johnson sentenced to jail? | 1 year and 1 day |
| Name of the white woman who testified against Johnson? | Belle Schreiber |
| What year did Jack Johnson die? | 1946 |
| What baseball team threw the World Series in 1919? | The Chicago White Sox |
| Most famous player on the White Sox who took the bribe: | "Shoeless" Joe Jackson |
| The other team in the 1919 World Series: | Cincinnati Reds |
| Who is considered the 1st black major league baseball player? | Moses Fleetwood Walker |
| The Major league team Moses Fleetwood Walker played for? | Toledo Blue Stockings |
| What year was the National Colored Baseball League formed? | 1887 |
| What baseball team did Andrew "Rube" Foster play/coach for? | Chicago Leland Giants |
| What year was the National Negro Baseball League formed? | 1920 |
| The 2 teams that played in the World's Colored Championship of 1924? | Kansas City Monarchs vs The Hillsdale Club |
| The longest running team in black baseball? | The Kansas City Monarchs |
| Original name of the New York Black Yankees? | Harlem Black Bombers |
| In 1948, the NY Black Yankees relocated to which city? | Rochester |
| Josh Gibson is known as the... | Black Babe Ruth |
| What position did Satchell Paige play? | Pitcher |
| The Major league team Satchell played for: | Cleveland Indians |
| The gangster criminal that fixed the 1919 World Series: | Arnold Rothstein |
| Name of the book & movie about the life of "Shoeless Joe Jackson"? | "The Natural" |
| What year did Satchell Paige win the Negro World Series? | 1942 |
| The Judge who became the commissioner of baseball: | Kenesaw Mountain Landis |
| Cheapskate owner of the White Sox in 1919: | Charles Comiskey |
| Length of games during the 1919 World Series: | Best of 9, first to win 5 |
| The film that helped the re-birth of the KKK during WW1: | The Birth of a Nation |
| The name of the book, the film "Birth of a Nation" was based on? | The Clansman |
| The 5 groups the new KKK terrorized? | Immigrants, Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Political Radicalists (Socialists, Communists) |
| What group protested the film "Birth of a Nation"? | The NAACP |
| The name of the race riots in 1919: | "The Red Summer" |
| How many race riots in 1919? | 25 |
| Where was the one in a Northern city? | Chicago |
| How many people died in the Chicago riot? | 38 people, 23 black, 15 white |
| Who was the black leader from Jamaica that helped African-Americans during the 1920's? | Marcus Garvey |
| What was Garvey's group called? | The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) |
| What was Garvey's newspaper called? | "The Negro World" |
| What was Garvey's shipping line called? | "Black Star Line" |
| What charge was Garvey sent to jail for? | Mail Fraud |
| The Catholic candidate in the 1928 Presidential Election | Alfred E. Smith |
| How many times was Al Smith elected as Governor of NY? | 4 times |
| Al Smith's political nickname? | "The Happy Warrior" |
| Who ran against Al Smith for president? | Herbert Hoover |
| Who directed "The Birth of a Nation"? | D.W. Griffin |
| Motto of the UNIA: | "One Aim, One God, One Destiny" |
| What country was Hitler born in? | Austria |
| The Nazi Party was originally called? | The German's Workers Party |
| What was Hitler's failed revolution in 1923 called? | The Beerhall Putsch |
| Date Hitler became leader of Germany? | January 30th, 1933 |
| The 3 things that Hitler did when he came to power? | Withdraw Germany from the league of nations Stops making war debt payments Rebuilds the military |
| What were the Jewish laws Hitler put out in 1935? | The Nuremberg Laws |
| What year did the Olympics begin? | 1896 - Athens Greece |
| The Olympic Official for the USA: | Avery Brundage |
| US Politician who wanted to boycott the 1936 Olympics: | Al Smith |
| How many countries participated in the 1936 Olympics? | 49 Countries |
| What major country did not participate? | The Soviet Union |
| How many African-Americans participated in the Olympics? | 18 |
| The 2 new sports introduced at the 1936 Olympics; | Basketball & Canoeing |
| How many medals did the USA win in 1936? | 56 Medals |
| How many of the 56 were won by African-Americans? | 14 Medals |
| Jesse Owens nickname in College | Larry Snyder |
| How many Gold Medals did Owens win in the Olympics? | 4 Gold Medals |
| Name of the Olympics propaganda film: | Olympia |
| Year Avery Brundage was in the Olympics: | 1912 |
| Year Berlin was chosen for the 1936 Olympics: | 1931 |
| Name of the Nazi Propaganda Film: | Triumph of the Will |
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