History Flashcards
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
YMCA
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s executive assistant?
Wyatt Tee Walker
Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?
Woolworth”s store in Greensboro, North Carolina
How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799?
Won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom
This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist and historian. Name him.
William Wells Brown
Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia?
William Tucker
Who helped form the “American Moral Reform Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?
William S. Whipper
Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest?
William S. Whipper
Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968?
William O. Dillard, Sr.
The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Azusa
Street Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black Holiness preacher?
William J. Seymour
What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund?
William H. Gray, III
What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois?
William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois
Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?
William Carney
In 1624 what was the first black child born in English America named?
William Tucker
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city?
Washington, DC
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?
W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter
What state’s government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661?
Virginia’s
In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?
Virginia
Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League?
Vernon Jordan, Jr.
What state was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
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?
University of Kentucky Law School
What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promoted racial pride and self improvement?
Universal Negro
Improvement and Association and African Communities League
What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
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?
to provide social services and promote racial and gender equality for women in their communities
