History Quiz

Harriet Tubman

A former slave who went back into the South on 18 different occasions to free other slaves, even though suffering from sleep seizures

Levi Coffin

Was considered the President or Conductor of the Underground Railroad, orchestrating efforts to free more than 3,000 slaves

William Lloyd Garrison

Published The Liberator in 1829, a newspaper that continued up until the Civil War in 1861 to convict and inspire Christians to stand against slavery

David Walker

Advocated violence and rebellion as the only way to end slavery

Frederick Douglass

Escaped from slavery in 1838, wrote an autobiography in 1845, and published the anti-slavery newspaper, North Star

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin exposing the horrors of slavery

John Brown

Led a slave insurrection in 1859 just months before the start of the Civil War, an event that got him executed; was considered by many a martyr

Booker T. Washington

Believed that the best way to create greater equality for African Americans was to concentrate on educational and economic goals rather than political ones

W.E.B. DuBois

A voting rights advocate, said,” We must persist in season and out of season that voting is necessary for all

Ida B. Wells

Was a journalist and fearless crusader to end lynching

Louis Armstrong

Gave birth to the musical genre of Jazz during the 1920’s

Langston Hughes

Was a prolific writer during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s

Jesse Owens

Won four gold medals in Germany during the 1936 Olympic Games when Hilter was president before the start of WW2

Benjamin Davis

The first African American brigadier general during WW2, he commanded the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-African American pilot platoon

Jackie Robinson

Broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947

Thurgood Marshall

The NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954, and later became the first African American Supreme Court justice

Rosa Parks

Took her case to court when she was asked to give up her seat to a white man

Martin Luther King Jr.

Rose up to lead the Birmingham Bus Boycott at just 26 years of age in 1956 before seeing his influence expand rapidly after that

Malcolm X

Though originally saw whites as inherently evil, he later changed his philosophy after taking a pilgrimage just before his assassination in 1965

Stokely Carmichael

He gave rise to the ‘Black Power” movement