Black People Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which leader became the first prime minister of independent Ghana and promoted Pan-African cooperation?
Jomo Kenyatta
Julius Nyerere
Kwame Nkrumah
Patrice Lumumba
2. A World War II exhibit highlights Black U.S. military pilots trained in Alabama who flew combat missions in Europe. Who are they?
The Harlem Hellfighters
The Buffalo Soldiers
The Montford Point Marines
The Tuskegee Airmen
3. What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?
Poll taxes in federal elections were unconstitutional
Racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
Segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional
Private businesses had to integrate immediately
4. Activists from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas meet to discuss colonialism and solidarity among people of African descent. Which broad idea most directly unites them?
Isolationism
Mercantilism
Pan-Africanism
Social Darwinism
5. Which statement best connects Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress to South African history?
They opposed apartheid and helped negotiate a transition to multiracial democracy
They created the system of racial classification used under apartheid
They organized the Haitian Revolution against French rule
They led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957
6. A country formed through a successful revolt by enslaved people and declared independence from France in 1804. Which country was it?
Haiti
Jamaica
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
7. A museum plans an exhibit on 1920s Harlem featuring poetry, novels, jazz, painting, and debates about Black identity. Which movement should anchor the exhibit?
The Black Arts Movement
The Chicago Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
The Niagara Movement
8. A Black family leaves rural Mississippi in the 1920s for industrial work in Chicago. Which larger historical movement does their journey illustrate?
The Back-to-Africa movement
The westward expansion of Reconstruction
The Freedom Rides
The Great Migration
9. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime?
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
10. A British family traces its roots to Caribbean migrants who arrived after World War II, including passengers associated with the Empire Windrush. Which historical term best fits this generation?
The Lost Generation
The Windrush generation
The Mau Mau generation
The Reconstruction generation
11. A Texas history program focuses on June 19, 1865, when a Union order in Galveston announced freedom for enslaved people in the state. Which observance is the program explaining?
Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C.
Kwanzaa
Black History Month
Juneteenth
12. An archive describes a wartime order that declared enslaved people free in areas rebelling against the United States, while leaving slavery untouched in certain Union-controlled areas. Which measure is being described?
The Compromise of 1850
The Freedmen's Bureau Act
The Missouri Compromise
The Emancipation Proclamation
13. A South African law assigns racial categories, restricts residence, and denies the Black majority equal political rights. Which system does this illustrate?
Indirect rule
Assimilation
Apartheid
Pan-Africanism
14. Which combination correctly identifies the 1963 March on Washington?
A demonstration for jobs and freedom where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered 'I Have a Dream'
A voting-rights march where John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge
A labor march where A. Philip Randolph announced the Montgomery boycott
A protest against the Vietnam War where Malcolm X delivered 'The Ballot or the Bullet'
15. A community organizes carpools and avoids city buses for more than a year after Rosa Parks is arrested. What campaign is being described?
The Birmingham Campaign
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Albany Movement
The March Against Fear
16. Students are organizing lunch-counter sit-ins and later helping with voter-registration campaigns in the early 1960s. Which organization most directly matches that description?
The National Urban League
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The Universal Negro Improvement Association