Test Your Black History Knowledge

See if you can name these influential figures in black history…

 

Did you find these?

Muhammad Ali — Louis Armstrong — Pearl Bailey — George Washington Carver — Frederick Douglas — W.E.B. DuBois

Medgar Evers — Mahalia Jackson — Martin Luther King, Jr. — Nelson Mandela — President Barack Obama — Michele Obama

Jesse Owens — Sidney Poitier — Jackie Robinson — Sojourner Truth — Harriet Tubman — Booker T. Washington

Oprah Winfrey — Malcolm X.

 

                   Black History Trivia

1. In 1985, Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for what novel?

2. What year did Abraham Lincoln sign the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. The arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 led to what protest activity?

4. What was the secret escape system that Harriet Tubman led slaves through?

5. Who was the first African American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

6. Who wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, the National Negro Anthem?

7. Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator from what state before becoming President?

8. Who wrote I know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

9. What was the nickname of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew planes in World War II?

10. What team did Jackie Robinson play for as the first African American in Major League Baseball?

 

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