Black History Month Trivia

Which 1964 act declared the people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act

• 13th Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

Who was the first African- American woman elected to U.S. Congress?

• Shirley Chisholm

• Michelle Obama

• Dorothy Dandridge

• Sojourner Truth

What was the name of the first Black American fighter pilot group formed during World War II?

• Black Hawks

• Black Eagles

• Tuskeegee Airman

• Topeka Pilots

Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to _________________ her seat to a white man.

For whose presidential inauguration did Maya Angelou become the first woman and woman of color to read a poem at an inauguration?

• Barack Obama

• Bill Clinton

• George W. Bush

• John F. Kennedy

What was the name of the protests in the South in which black and white people rode together on buses?

• Bus Station Boycotts

• Woolworth sit-ins

• Freedom Riders

• Freedom Writers

What was the name of the Supreme Court Case that opened all public schools to black students?

• Civil Rights Act

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• 13th amendment

• Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution made slavery illegal?

• 2nd amendment

• 13th amendment

• 26th amendment

• 8th amendment

Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

• Clarence Thomas

• John Lewis

• Thurgood Marshall

• Louis Armstrong

Which president signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison