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Black History Highlights
Black History Highlights
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1
Question
Who was the first African American President of the United States?
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Answer
Barack Obama
2
Question
What year was Juneteenth first celebrated?
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Answer
1865
3
Question
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
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Booker T. Washington
4
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What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
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13th Amendment
5
Question
What were the primary causes of the Civil War?
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Answer
Slavery and states' rights
6
Question
What was the name of the first Black-owned bank in the U.S.?
Page 1
Answer
Freedman's Savings Bank
7
Question
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Page 1
Answer
Martin Luther King Jr.
8
Question
In what year did Brown v. Board of Education pass?
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Answer
1954
9
Question
Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress?
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Answer
Shirley Chisholm
10
Question
What organization did Malcolm X lead early in his career?
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Answer
Nation of Islam
11
Question
What were the North and South called during the Civil War?
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Answer
Union and Confederacy
12
Question
What city hosted the 1963 March on Washington?
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Washington, D.C.
13
Question
Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
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Answer
Thurgood Marshall
14
Question
What was the name of the Black Wall Street neighborhood?
Page 1
Answer
Greenwood
15
Question
Who founded the NAACP?
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Answer
W.E.B. Du Bois
16
Question
What historically Black college did Kamala Harris attend?
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Answer
Howard University
17
Question
Who was the first Black woman billionaire?
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Answer
Oprah Winfrey
18
Question
What movement followed the killing of Trayvon Martin?
Page 2
Answer
Black Lives Matter
19
Question
Who was the first Black woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?
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Answer
Bessie Coleman
20
Question
What was the name of the first all-Black military regiment?
Page 2
Answer
Buffalo Soldiers
21
Question
In what year was the Civil Rights Act signed?
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Answer
1964
22
Question
Who created the traffic signal?
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Answer
Garrett Morgan
23
Question
Who was the first Black woman to win an Oscar?
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Answer
Hattie McDaniel
24
Question
What organization did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?
Page 2
Answer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
25
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Who was the first Black female Supreme Court Justice?
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Answer
Ketanji Brown Jackson
26
Question
What war did the Tuskegee Airmen fight in?
Page 2
Answer
World War II
27
Question
Who founded Black History Week?
Page 2
Answer
Carter G. Woodson
28
Question
What was the Freedom Riders' goal?
Page 2
Answer
Desegregation
29
Question
Who was the first Black woman senator?
Page 2
Answer
Carol Moseley Braun
30
Question
What sport did Jackie Robinson play?
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Answer
Baseball