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1. In 1641, what state was the first to legalize slavery?

Alabama
Massachusetts
Virginia
Tennessee

2. What state was the first to abolish slavery?

Pennsylvania
New York
Florida
Kansas

3. What was the average price of a healthy male slave at the beginning of the slave trade?

10 dollars
20 dollars
60 dollars
150 dollars

4. The first person to be killed at the Boston Massacre was a black man.  Who was he?

Ned Turner
Samuel Gray
Crispus Attucks
Ira Aldridge

5. During the American Revolution most white soldiers averaged service time of 3 to 9 months.  Black soldiers on the other hand served an average of how much enlistment time.

10-12 months
2-3 years
4-5 years
None of the above

6. Who was the first USAF African-American Four-Star General in U.S. Military History?

Henry O. Flipper
Daniel James Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Colin Powell

7. She became the first African-American to be pictured on the cover of Vogue Magazine.

Beverly Johnson
Inman
Pat Cleveland
Naomi Sims

8. Dr.  Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for doing this.

Successfully removing half of the brain of an infant to stop seizures
Successfully separated Siamese twins joined at the head
Became the first African-American Director of Pediatric at John Hopkins Hospital
All of the above

9. This woman was the first African-American woman to receive a patent.

Madame C.J. Walker
Lyda A. Newman
Sarah E. Goode
Marjorie Joyner

10. What is the name of the oldest African-American College and where is it located?

Barber-Scotia College in North Carolina
Hampton University in Virginia
Wiley College in Texas
Cheyney University in Pennsylvania

11. Percy Julian was known as the soybean chemist, his research lead to the following.

A drug to treat glaucoma
The development of hormones that would prevent miscarriages in pregnant women
A synthetic version of cortisone that greatly relieved the pain of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers
All of the above

12. Besides being the first African-American heavyweight champion, this person also patented a wrench.  Who is he?

Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali
Jack Johnson
None of the above

13. Who was the first African-American woman to work as the editor of a newspaper and what was the name of the paper?

Ida B. Wells/The Free Speech and Headlight
Sojourner Truth/Freedom’s Journal
Mary Church Terrell/The Weekly Advocate
Mary Ann Shadd/The Provincial Freeman

14. Who traveled to England to encourage a world-wide boycott of cotton?  He knew that if the market for cotton would collapse then slavery would collapse also.

Frederick Douglas
Alexander Crummell
Henry Highland Garnet
James McCune Smith

15. John H. Johnson created which two magazines.

Essence and Heart & Soul
Savoy and about….time
Jet and Ebony
Black Enterprise and Black Issues

16. He is credited with helping to initiate and propel the Harlem Renaissance.  He described it as a “spiritual coming of age”.

Langston Hughes
Jean Toomer
Claude McKay
Alain Locke

17. He is the first African-American to receive a PH.D from Harvard.

George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Dubois
William M. Trotter

18. On the principle of racial equality, this Nobel Prize Winner stated the following, “no Negro American can be free from the disabilities of race…until the lowliest Negro…is no longer disadvantaged because of his race”.

Albert Luthuli
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ralph Bunche
None of the above

19. This singer/actor starred in the musical Showboat singing his famous rendition of Ol’ Man River.

Harry Belafonte
Sidney Poitier
Paul Roberson
Bert Williams

20. He was the first African-American astronaut to take a spacewalk, dedicating it to the achievements of all African-Americans.

Guion Bluford
Ronald McNair
Bernard Harris
Robert Lawrence