Sports | Civil Rights Movement | Miscellaneous | A.P. U.S. History | Slavery |
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Who was the first African American To Play in the MLB (Major League Baseball)?
Hint: He wore number 42
Jackie Robinson
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What Civil Rights Activist gave his infamous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963?
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
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Who was the first African American to become President of The United States of America?
Barrack Obama
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This man led an attack on Harper's Ferry, VA in 1859.
John Brown
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Which female African American Underground Railroad conductor stated, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"?
Harriet Tubman
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Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
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What does The NCAAP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote in 1870?
15th Amendment
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This sate was thought to have been bleeding over the issue of slavery.
Kansas (Bleeding)
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This was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade?
Hint: Three Words
The Middle Passage
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This African American boxer is considered one of the greatest of all time?
Hint: He once stated: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
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Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
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In what state was the first abolitionist organization formed?
Pennsylvania
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This is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally described the prairies and dark fertile soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.
Black Belt
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What President took office following Abraham Lincoln's Assassination?
Andrew Johnson
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Who was the African American Sprinter/Jumper who took four golds at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany?
Hint: He competed for the United States
Jesse Owens
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What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe published in 1852 stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the United States before the Civil War?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Which famous Supreme Court case in 1896 declared that segregation was legal and constitutional, as long as segregated facilities were "separate but equal?"
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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This man invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
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What year was the first African brought over to the new world?
1619
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Who was the first African American player selected in the 2018 NFL Draft?
Saquon Barkley
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Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
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Supreme Court decision in 1954 that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); ruling that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional.
Brown Vs. Board of Education (1954)
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This slave led a revolt against the French rulers in Haiti in 1799; the French were never able to regain control of the colony.
Touissaint L'Ouverture
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What river did a slave revolt in South Carolina in 1739 break out near?
Stono River (SC)
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