Black History Month Trivia Quiz

Who is often referred to as the "Father of Black History "

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Carter G. Woodson

• Malcolm X

Which African American leaders co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) February 12, 1909?

• Mary White Ovington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Ida B. Wells

• Moorfield Story

When was Black History Month first celebrated in the United States?

• 2000

• 1865

• 1976

• 1920

Black History Month was first a week (Negro History Week) beginning in

• 1905

• 1926

• 1955

Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

• Toni Morrison

• Alice Walker

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Maya Angelou

Which African American artist is famous for his vibrant and colorful paintings depicting the African American experience?

• Pablo Picasso

• Jacob Lawrence

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Vincent van Gogh

Which was the first state to actually mandate Black history in 1951 for the public schools

• California

• New York

• Texas

• Georgia

Which countries celebrate BHM in October?

• U.K.

• Canada

• Ireland

• USA

Match the following

• Birthday February 12

• Rosa Parks

• Birthday March 10

• Abraham Lincoln

• Birthday February 14

• February

• Celebrations in honor of emancipation

• Harriet Tubman

• Birthday December 1

• Frederick Douglass

"Black History Month shouldn't be treated as though it is somehow separate from our collective American history or somehow just boiled down to a compilation of greatest hits from the March on Washington or from some of our sports heroes...

It's about the lived, shared experience of all African Americans, high and low, famous and obscure, and how those experiences have shaped and challenged and ultimately strengthened America"

-Who said this?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Barack Obama

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges