Quiz: People in African American History
Don't look now, but the answers appear after the ten questions below:
1. What was the name of the first heavyweight fighter to knockdown (and eventually defeat) heavyweight champion Mike Tyson?
2. What did Rosa Parks do on a city bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama?
3. Which Supreme Court judge stood against the rest of the Court in abolishing segregation in public schools in Brown v Board of Education?
4. Which African American actor, known for his famous voice, celebrated a birthday on January 17?
5. Who was the first black woman to play a lead role at the American Shakespeare Festival?
6. In 1936, who became the first African American to participate in the Olympic games?
7. Whose big-screen debut was The Color Purple?
8. What black educator wrote the book Up From Slavery?
9. Which female singer recorded a debut album that went on to become the biggest-selling debut album for a solo artist?
10. Which poet is famous for the following line: What happens to a dream deferred/Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
The answers:
1. James (Buster) Douglas
2. She refused to give up her seat to a white person
3. Thurgood Marshall
4. James Earl Jones
5. Ruby Dee
6. Jesse Owens
7. Oprah Winfrey
8. Booker T Washington
9. Whitney Houston
10. Langston Hughes
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