Thursday, February 05, 2004

Black History Month began this week. Can you answer these general questions about famous people, organizations, events and milestones in black history? (Answers below)

1. When was the NAACP founded?

2. What was its most important victory?

3. What is its principal publication?

4. Who was the first president of Tuskegee University?

5. Who was the first black person to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard University?

6. Who was Rosa Parks?

7. What is the essential provision of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?

8. What is the essential provision of the 14th Amendment?

9. What is the essential provision of the 15th Amendment?

10. What is the essential provision of the 19th Amendment?

Answers:

1. 1909.
2. 1954 Supreme Court decision declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
3. The Crisis Magazine.
4. Booker T. Washington.
5. William E. B. DuBois in 1896.
6. Her refusal to move to the back of a bus started the civil rights movement in Alabama.
7. It eliminated slavery in the United States.
8. It says that all people born in the United States are U.S. citizens.
9. The right to vote shall not be denied based on race, color or previous condition of servitude.
10. The right to vote shall not be denied based on gender.

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