A very hard Black History Month quiz
1. What was the first American colony to abolish slavery?
2. What is the name of the first black newspaper?
3. The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 destroyed what prosperous black community?
4. What was the name of the first slave ship built in the English colonies?
5. When was the importation of slaves outlawed in the U.S.?
6. Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space?
7. How big was the price on Harriet Tubman's head?
8. Where did Frederick Douglass get his last name?
9. At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
10. What percentage of Southern families owned large plantations?
11. Who popularized the slogan "Africa for the Africans at home and abroad?"
12. How did Jackie Robinson do in his first major league game?
13. Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., get his doctorate?
14. What did the "N" in SNCC stand for?
15. Where was Malcolm X killed?
16. For what crime did Malcolm X go to prison?
17. What was "Resurrection City?"
18. How many times did Jesse Jackson run for the U.S. presidency?
19. In what year was Martin Luther King Day first observed as a federal holiday?
20. Who was the first black woman senator?
21. Which Civil War soldier was the first African-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor?
22. What event sparked the founding of the NAACP?
Black History Month Events
Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m. "Literature, Quilts and African-American History" in the Shepard Library.
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19 at 8 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Ruined" at the University Theatre.
Feb. 12 "Historic Thousands on Jones Street" at Shaw University.
Feb. 15 at 11:40 a.m. "Envisioning the Future of North Carolina's African-American Heritage," presented by Michelle Lanier in the Shepard Library.
Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. "Talk With You Like a Woman: African-American Women, Justice and Reform in New York, 1890-1935," presented by Dr. Cheryl Hicks in the H.M. Michuax School of Education.
Answers to Black History Month quiz
1. Vermont
2. Freedom's Journal
3. Greenwood. Black Wall Street
4. The Desire
5. 1808
6. Bernard Harris, Jr.
7. $40,000
8. A poem "The Lady of the Lake (1810)"
9. About 1 million
10. 1% to 4%
11. Elijah Poole
12. 0 hits in 3 at bats
13. Boston University
14. Non-violent
15. Audubon Ballroom (before speaking)
16. Burglary
17. Part of Washington D.C.
18. two times
19. 1986
20. Carol Moseley Braun
21. Sgt. William H. Carney
22. A riot in Springfield, Mass.
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