Black History in Education

Who was the first African American to attend an integrated school in the United States?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Ruby Bridges

• Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional?

• Smith v. Johnson

• Jones v. Williams

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Davis v. Miller

Who was the first African American woman to graduate from an accredited college in the United States?

• Mary Jane Patterson

• Michelle Obama

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

Which historically black college or university (HBCU) was founded in 1867 and is the oldest private historically black liberal arts college in the United States?

• Yale University

• Princeton University

• Howard University

• Harvard University

Who was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Education?

• Dr. Ben Carson

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Dr. Rod Paige

• Condoleezza Rice

In what year did the first African American student, James Meredith, enroll at the University of Mississippi?

• 1962

• 1984

• 1970

• 1955

Which African American educator and leader was an early proponent of education for African Americans and founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• Malcolm X

What was the name of the 1957 crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, where nine African American students were initially prevented from entering a racially segregated school?

• Arkansas Nine

• Little Rock Crisis

• Segregation Standoff

• Little Rock Nine

Who was the first African American woman to serve as the president of Spelman College?

• Oprah Winfrey

• Michelle Obama

• Condoleezza Rice

• Johnnetta B. Cole

Which African American mathematician and NASA aerospace technologist was instrumental in the success of the first manned spaceflights?

• Katherine Johnson

• Harriet Tubman

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks