Black History Month Test

Who initiated Black History Month

Carter G. Woodson

In what year was the first celebration of Black History Week?

1926, which later evolved into Black History Month in February.

Who wrote the lyrics to Lift Every Voice and Sing

James Weldon Johnson

Which amendment of Constitution made slavery illegal (year)

1865

Which amendment of Constitution Granted citizenship to African Americans (year)

1868

Which amendment of Constitution Gave African Americans men the right to vote (year)

1870

Who was the first african-american child to intergreate an elementary school in New Orleans?

Ruby Bridges

Who became the subject of a famous painting by

Norman Rockwell

What was the title of the paint Norman Rockwell became famous for?

The Problem We All Live With

Who were the first two students to integrate the University of Georgia?

Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

Which Supreme Court case ruled that segregation in the public schools was unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

What were the “Freedom Rides”?

A series of bus trips taken by civil rights activists in 1961 to challenge segregation in the South.

The letters HBCU represent the term

Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

What HBCU did Martin Luther King Jr. Attend?

Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

What HBCU did Katherine Johnson attend?

Katherine Johnson attended West Virginia University, where she was the first African American woman to earn a degree in mathematics.

Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery?

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Who was the first person honored in the US Postal Service Black Heritage Series?

Harriet Tubman

Who was the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm

Who was the highest paid African American performer in the first half of the twentieth century, earing more than $2 million during his lifetime. He was famous for his dancing with Shirley Temple. He died penniless.

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

What African Americans invented the Blood Plasama bag?

Charles Drew.

What African Americans invented the Golf Tee

George F. Grant.

What African Americans invented the Ironing Board

Sarah Boone

What African Americans invented the Tricycle

Matthew Cherry

What African Americans invented the Pencil Sharpener

John Lee Love

Who was the first American professional athlete to become a noted artist?

Ernie Barnes

Benjamin Banneker is known for making the first __ in American

Wooden Clock

Name HBCU in the state of Georgia not in Located in Atlanta a,

Savannah State University

Name HBCU in the state of Georgia not in Located in Atlanta b.

Albany State

Name HBCU in the state of Georgia not in Located in Atlanta c.

Fort Valley State

Earnest J. Gaines was an African-American author whose amazing works have been taught in colleges. Name one of his most notable books.

A Lesson Before Dying

Who were the first male and Female African Americans to win an Olympic Gold Medal

John Baxter Taylor & Alice Coachman

Who was the first African-America Supreme Court Justice>

Thurgood Marshall

What year were women given the right to vote?

1920

Name one book that Earnest Gaines wrote that was made into movie?

Autobiogrpahy of Miss Jane Pittman

Bill Robinson Nickname was

Bojangles