Q 01/05

Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech during the 1963 March on Washington?

A) Malcolm X

B) John Lewis

C) Jesse Jackson

D) Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer · why

D) Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech on August 28, 1963, calling for an end to racism and envisioning a future of racia...

Q 02/05

Who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking a major boycott?

A) Rosa Parks

B) Coretta Scott King

C) Fannie Lou Hamer

D) Dorothy Height

Answer · why

A) Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955 led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement that l...

Q 03/05

Who was the first African American president of the United States?

A) Colin Powell

B) Clarence Thomas

C) Barack Obama

D) Jesse Jackson

Answer · why

C) Barack Obama

Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in 2008, becoming the first African American to hold the office. He served two ter...

Q 04/05

What was the racial segregation system enforced by statute in the American South called?

A) Jim Crow laws

B) Black Codes

C) Reconstruction Acts

D) Fugitive Slave Laws

Answer · why

A) Jim Crow laws

The name probably comes from a minstrel-show song called 'Jump Jim Crow'; the statutes ran from the late 19th century to the mid-20th.

Q 05/05

Which abolitionist's 1845 Narrative was followed by My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, the second of his three autobiographies?

A) Frederick Douglass

B) Booker T. Washington

C) W.E.B. Du Bois

D) Solomon Northup

Answer · why

A) Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, whose Narrative was a bestseller that exposed him as a fugitive, so he left for Britain until supporters bought his freedom. Life ...