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**BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUIZ**

**([About Black/African American contributions)]{.smallcaps}**

**1. Why was February chosen as Black History Month?**

A **The Emancipation Proclamation was signed**

**in February.**

B **It is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday month.**

C **The Underground Railroad was completed in**

**that month.**

D **It is Abraham Lincoln's birthday month.**

**2. Who was the first recorded African to set foot in**

**North America?**

A **Kunta Kinte**

B **Eldridge Cleaver**

C **Estavanico**

D **Paul Cuffe**

**3. In what century did the above set foot in North**

**America?**

A **14th**

B **15th**

C **16th**

D **17^th^**

**4. In what year was the first African slave brought to what is now the
United States?**

A **1492**

B **1576**

C **1619**

D **1704**

**5. Who was the African American who died at the American Revolution's
Boston Massacre and is considered by some as the first American casualty
of the war?**

A **Frederick Douglass**

B **Sojourner Truth**

C **Chicken George**

D **Crispus Attucks**

**6. Who was the African American who founded Chicago, IL?**

A **Peter Salem**

B **Franklin Chicago**

C **Jean DuSable**

D **William Daly**

**7. Which African American revolutionized the shoe industry by
inventing a mechanical "lasting" machine?**

A **Jan Matzeliger**

B **Harry Boston**

C **Alphonsus Florsheim**

D **Paul Lawrence Dunbar**

**8. Which African American performed the first successful human heart
operation?**

A **William Debaeke**

B **Daniel H. Williams**

C **Gerald Mayo**

D **Harriet Tubman**

**9. Who discovered how to "bank" blood?**

A **Charles Drew**

B **John Hopkins**

C **William Frist**

D **John D. Rockefeller**

**10. Before the Civil War, what percentage of southern White families
owned slaves?**

A **25%**

B **50%**

C **80%**

D **100%**

**11. In what year were laws banning interracial marriage declared
unconstitutional?**

A **1918**

B **1933**

C **1967**

D **1984**

**12. How many states were still banning interracial**

**marriages in 1969?**

A **6**

B **17**

C **23**

D **37**

**13. What was the year in which there was no reported lynching in the
United States?**

A **1898**

B **1923**

C **1952**

D **1991**

**14. In 1970, Louisiana's legislature ruled that any**

**person with at least \_\_\_\_\_ "black blood" was**

**African American.**

A **1/32**

B **1/16**

C **¼**

D **½**

**15. What major U.S. Organization runs the ACT-SO**

**Program (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific
Olympics)?**

A **The NAACP**

B **CORE**

C **The Prince Hall Masons**

D **The African Methodist Episcopal Church**

**16. In 1984, African Americans held what government post in Newark,
Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Chicago.**

A **Police Chief**

B **Fire Chief**

C **Mayor**

D **Dog Catcher**

**17. What was the first black college, founded in 1837?**

A **Spellman College**

B **Cheney State Training School**

C **Prairie View A&M**

D **Morehouse College**

**18. What percentage of southern Black children**

**attended desegregated schools in 1960?**

A **6%**

B **14%**

C **28%**

D **41%**

**19. Who was the first Black Congresswoman?**

A **Harriet Tubman**

B **Sheila Jackson**

C **Shirley Chisholm**

D **Barbara Jordan**

**20. Which President ordered "equality of treatment and opportunity in
the armed forces", effectively?**

**integrating them?**

A **Woodrow Wilson**

B **Harry S Truman**

C **John F. Kennedy**

D **Lyndon B. Johnson**