Black History Fun Facts

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Black History Fun Facts Quiz

Test your knowledge of Black history with our engaging quiz! Explore fascinating facts and learn about the influential figures and events that have shaped the African American experience.

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Important historical figures
Significant movements and eras
Impactful events and contributions

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Historian, Author and Journalist who is known as "Father of Black History"

W.E.B Dubois

Carter G. Woodson

Elijah McCoy

Jomo Kenyatta

Enslaved African American who was a Christian preacher who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Elijah Muhammad

Nat Turner

Fredrick Douglas

Who was James Baldwin

African American social critic who helped raised public awareness of racial and sexual oppression.

Kenyan Politician who became kenyas first president and considered the founding father of Kenya.

American civil rights activist from mississippi who was murdered by a Ku Klux Klan member in which sparked the civil rights protest.

Known as the "New Negro Movement" during this time Black artist began to take control of how Black culture was being represented

Black Wall Street

Haitian Revolution

Harlem Renaissance

Civil Rights movement

Who is Frances Cres Welsing

American – Born Afro centrist, psychiatrist, and author. Believe people of color needed to liberate themselves psychologically from white domination.

She first became famous because she was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and was involved in Black Power movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

Was a prominent civil rights leader in the 1930s whose role was mostly behind the scenes. She was involved in the groundbreaking organizations of the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

St. Luke AME Zion Church is known as

Oldest Black Church in Lawrence County

Oldest Black Church in Pennsylvania

All of the above

Huey P. Newton was known for (Check all that apply)

Political Activist and Revolutionary who was Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966.

Sponsored a free breakfast program for children, sickle cell anemia tests, free food and shoes, and a school.

Rival of Malcolm X who he challenged his beliefs for African Americans to thrive in America.

All of the above

The saying "40 acres and a mule" came from what event

Harlem Renaissance

Black Wall Street

Redlining

Montgomery Bus Boycott

The term "Black Wall Street" refers to what (Check all that apply)

One of the most successful Black economies in American history.

O.W Gurley, a wealthy African American from Arkansas, moved to Tulsa, purchased over 40 acres of land and sold to other African Americans in 1906.

Tulsa race riot of 1921, a two-day massacre of hundreds of Black residents started by a white mob.

None of the above

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