African American History 5

Question 1

Gave all women right to vote-excluding African American women

Answer 1

19th amendment

Question 2

Signs with Columbia Records to produce race records- “Down-Hearted Blues” first million selling record by African American artist. Records “St.Louis Blues” with Louis Armstrong

Answer 2

Bessie Smith

Question 3

_______ with maids is organized with A. Philip Randolph as its first president

Answer 3

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Question 4

Ossian Sweet arrested for murder after he and his family kill member of white mob protecting their home. Represented in trial by ________. Acquitted of charge

Answer 4

Clarence Darrow

Question 5

Abe Saperstein forms __________ basketball team in Chicago on January 30

Answer 5

Harlem Globetrotters

Question 6

Arrested in Alabama. Trial begins on April 6

Answer 6

Scottsboro Boys

Question 7

Wrote Jonahs Gourd Vine

Answer 7

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 8

Track star who wins four gold metals at Berlin olympics

Answer 8

Jesse Owens

Question 9

Boxer who wins heavyweight championship in a bout with James J. Braddock in Chicago

Answer 9

Joe Louis

Question 10

Wrote Native Son

Answer 10

Richard Wright

Question 11

US army creates Tuskegee Air Squadron and soon be known as _________

Answer 11

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 12

President FDR issues ___________ desegregating war production plants and creating Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)

Answer 12

Executive Order 8802

Question 13

US Supreme Court declares white only political primaries unconstitutional

Answer 13

Smith v. Allwright

Question 14

Of Brooklyn Dodgers becomes first African American to play Major League Baseball in 20th century

Answer 14

Jackie Robinson

Question 15

President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 directing the _______

Answer 15

Desegregation of armed forces

Question 16

First african American to receive Pulitzer Prize-in poetry

Answer 16

Gwendolyn Brooks