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A Quiz for Black History Month



1. Who wrote The Mis-education of the Negro? 

2. New York’s Schomburg Library is named after the originator of Negro History Week.   True   False

3. The author of the novel The Bluest Eye is?     A) J. California Cooper   B)Alice Walker  C) Toni Morrison  D) none

4. W. C. Fields described this man as the greatest comic that ever lived.   A) Bert Williams    B)Bob Hope    C) Sambo    D) Rosemond Johnson

5. Madame C. J. Walker invented the straightening comb.  True  False

6. Who organized and led the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Black labor union?  A) Coleman Young   B) Malcolm Little   C) A. Philip Randolph     D) Harold Washington

7. What is the name of the activist, investigative feminist journalist who refused to give up her seat on a train, documented lynching in the U.S., whose life was threatened if she returned to Memphis Tennessee, and she published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, and A Red Record, 1892–1894?

8.  What woman accused Wimbledon of “being on the wrong side of history” in 2006, because of its’ unequal pay for women and men in tennis.  Consequently, increased support for her position caused Wimbledon and the French Open to award equal pay for all competitors in 2007.   

9. Ralph Ellison is famous for writing what novel?  

10. Identify the sorority that was first established for Negro women in 1908? 










1. Carter G. Woodson; 2, False; 3. C; 4. A; 5. False; 6. C; 7. Ida B. Wells Barnett; 8. Venus Williams; 9. Invisible Man; 10. (AKA) Alpha Kappa Alpha

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