Q 01/05

Who was the first African American to earn a Harvard PhD?

A) Alain Locke

B) W.E.B. Du Bois

C) Booker T. Washington

D) Kelly Miller

Answer · why

B) W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois earned the first Harvard PhD awarded to an African American in 1895, with a dissertation on the suppression of the African slave trade ...

Q 02/05

In what year did "Negro History Week," the precursor to Black History Month, officially begin?

A) 1926

B) 1915

C) 1948

D) 1976

Answer · why

A) 1926

Historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History initiated "Negro History Week" in February 1926.

Q 03/05

Members of the Black German community began observing the month in 1990 in which city?

A) Hamburg

B) Berlin

C) Frankfurt

D) Munich

Answer · why

B) Berlin

Berlin's Black German community began observing Black History Month in 1990, with programmes covering Black Europeans, US civil rights history and apa...

Q 04/05

In the United Kingdom, Black History Month is celebrated in which month?

A) February

B) October

C) August

D) April

Answer · why

B) October

While the United States and Canada observe Black History Month in February, the United Kingdom celebrates it in October.

Q 05/05

February was chosen for Black History Month partly to coincide with which two figures' birthdays?

A) Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

B) Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver

C) W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey

D) Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

Answer · why

A) Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

February holds Abraham Lincoln's birthday (the 12th) and the one Frederick Douglass chose for himself (the 14th); in 1897 Mary Church Terrell had Wash...