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Re: Black History Quiz-Part 1
46. In Montgomery, 1955, this brave African-American woman refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man and was arrested. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for an African-American bus boycott, which fueled the Civil Rights Movement. Name this important African-American heroine.
47. On what date and in what city was Malcolm X born?
48. On what date and in what city was Malcolm X assassinated?
49. His Arabic name was El Haiji Malik Shabazz. He was nicknamed "Detroit Red." He was well known as Malcolm X. What was his given name at birth?
50. On what date and in what city was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
51. On what date and in what city was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
52. What is the date and place of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech?
53. It was on the balcony of this motel that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated upon emerging from a second-floor room accompanied by Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson. Name the motel.
54. On what date was the South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela freed from prison after 27 years?
55. Name the African -American man who escaped from his Virginia slave masters by hiding in a box being shipped to Philadelphia.
56. Who was the Harvard-trained African-American physician who is now regarded as the father of Black Nationalism? He condemned the settlement of Liberia as a ploy by Southern slaveholders to deposit free African-Americans there to protect the institution of slavery.
57. What famous African-American scholar, author, and journalist made this often quoted statement: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line"?
58. Name the African-American security guard who detected and detained a group of men installing surveillance equipment in the Democratic Party National Headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC, which led to the infamous Watergate Scandal that rocked the Nixon administration?
Politics/Mass Movements/Civil Rights
59. In 1889, Frederick Douglass was appointed U.S. Minister to this Caribbean nation. Name the country.
60. What is the title of the 1852 novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe? This novel sold over 300,000 copies in one year and won over countless thousands of sympathizers to the abolitionist cause.
61. What is the name of the famous 1857 Supreme Court Decision that opened federal territory to slavery, denied citizenship rights to African Americans, and decreed that slaves do not become free when taken into free territory? It was named after the slave who sued his master for his freedom.
62. What is the name of the Florida Indian nation that offered refuge to fugitive slaves, intermarried with them, and fought along with them against the U.S. government in a series of wars in the mid-1800s?
63. P.B.S. Pinchback was born a slave in Mississippi but eventually made his home in another Southern state. During Reconstruction, he became a state senator, school board director of a major city's school system, senator, lieutenant governor, and in 1872, governor of the state. What state claims this first African-American governor?
64. In May 1966, this prominent African-American activist spokesman was named as the head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), charting a new course for the "Black Power" doctrine. He is now known as Kwame Tur of the All African People's Revolutionary Party. Who is he?
65. In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded an organization in Oakland that proposed a 10-point program that included reparations for past abuses of African Americans, release of African-American prisoners, and trial of African-Americans by African-American juries. What was the name of this organization?
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