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Black History Month Quiz
Thursday, February 24, 2000
1. What river in Western Pennsylvania has a flow pattern (direction) like the Nile in Africa?
2. What Western Pennsylvania commodity caused an economic boom in the 1800s, similar to what is happening in Nigeria today?
3. Who was the only African-American known to have a Pittsburgh neighborhood named after him?
4. What African nation was established to be the new land for freed Africans from Western Pennsylvania and the rest of America?
5. Dr. Martin Delany traced his heritage back to what nation (ethnic group)?
6. What African-American woman from Pittsburgh became the first to have her own radio show?
7. What African-American man was the first to be appointed to the Pittsburgh Board of Education?
8. What was the nickname of popular Pittsburgh vocalist Billy Eckstein?
9. Josh Gibson played for what Pittsburgh Negro League baseball team?
10. Daisy Lampkin served on the board of directors of two large Pittsburgh black organizations that still exist. What are they?
ANSWERS:
1. The Monongahela. Both rivers flow north instead of south.
2. Oil.
3. William Arthurs. The neighborhood was Arthursville, located where the Mellon Arena is today.
4. Liberia.
5. Golah.
6. Mary Dee.
7. Homer S. Brown
8. "The Fabulous Mr. B."
9. The Homestead Grays.
10. The Urban League and the NAACP.
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