History

Question 1

What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?

Answer 1

YMCA

Question 2

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s executive assistant?

Answer 2

Wyatt Tee Walker

Question 3

Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?

Answer 3

Woolworth”s store in Greensboro, North Carolina

Question 4

How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799?

Answer 4

Won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom

Question 5

This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist and historian. Name him.

Answer 5

William Wells Brown

Question 6

Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia?

Answer 6

William Tucker

Question 7

Who helped form the “American Moral Reform Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?

Answer 7

William S. Whipper

Question 8

Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest?

Answer 8

William S. Whipper

Question 9

Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968?

Answer 9

William O. Dillard, Sr.

Question 10

The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Azusa
Street Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black Holiness preacher?

Answer 10

William J. Seymour

Question 11

What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund?

Answer 11

William H. Gray, III

Question 12

What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois?

Answer 12

William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois

Question 13

Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?

Answer 13

William Carney

Question 14

In 1624 what was the first black child born in English America named?

Answer 14

William Tucker

Question 15

Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city?

Answer 15

Washington, DC

Question 16

Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington”s leadership and to protest against the lynchings and
disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagara Movement was organized in Canada by what black middle-class intellectuals?

Answer 16

W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter

Question 17

What state’s government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661?

Answer 17

Virginia’s

Question 18

In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?

Answer 18

Virginia

Question 19

Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League?

Answer 19

Vernon Jordan, Jr.

Question 20

What state was the first to abolish slavery?

Answer 20

Vermont

Question 21

The first African American lawyer for a New Jersey State Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first African American inducted into what law school’s Hall of Fame in 1997?

Answer 21

University of Kentucky Law School

Question 22

What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promoted racial pride and self improvement?

Answer 22

Universal Negro
Improvement and Association and African Communities League

Question 23

What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?

Answer 23

Underground Railroad

Question 24

The 1890s was called the “women”s era” in black history
because of the rise of the black women”s clubs and movement. For what reasons were these clubs and associations formed?

Answer 24

to provide social services and promote racial and gender equality for women in their communities

Question 25

What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit?

Answer 25

Thurgood Marshall

Question 26

Who were the Exodusters?

Answer 26

They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled in Kansas in 1879