Take our African-American History 101 Pop Quiz, and you could win $50.00 cash, and be named THE BLACK COLLEGIAN's African-American History Scholar on your campus. Your photo will be posted on THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online at www.blackcollegian.com!
Entering is easy: Simply email us using the link at the bottom with the correct answers, along with your name, address, phone number and the name of your university. Be the first one from your school to score 100 percent on the quiz, and you win!
ADDITIONAL RULES
- Email subject line should read: African-American History 101.
- Number all answers.
- Last date to submit answers is March 9, 2009.
- One entry per person.
Winners will be notified by email. Must be currently enrolled in a four-year university.
1. Considered the father of African-American history, he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began promoting "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in the 1960s.
2. This Midwest city was the home of Greenwood, aka "Negro Wall Street," in the early 1900s, before the district was destroyed in 1921 in one of the nation's worst race riots.
3. After overcoming a bout with polio as a child, this track star at the 1960 Olympics in Rome became the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympiad.
4. Originally founded to patrol Oakland's ghettoes and protect residents from police brutality in 1966, this revolutionary group later adopted Marxism and developed more than five dozen community programs.
5. A radical activist, she was briefly on the FBI's most-wanted list in the 1970s before becoming a college professor in California.
6. This landmark Supreme Court case in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations, under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
7. Three civil rights workers were murdered by reputed Klan members in this southern city in 1964, a horrific crime which roused millions of average Americans.
8. A native of Chicago competing in the 2006 Olympics in Salt Lake City, he became the first African-American speed skater to win a gold medal in an individual winter sport.
9. Founded in 1837 as the African Institute, this is the nation's oldest historically black college, now named for the Pennsylvania town in which it's located.
10. This son of a slave was a noted mathematician and astronomer, and in 1791 played an integral role in the first survey of Washington, D.C.
11. This landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 led to the end of legal segregation in U.S. education.
12. This southern city is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, built around the former Lorraine Motel, on the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
13. Raising their fists in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, led to these U.S. track stars being suspended from the team and banished from the athletes' village.
14. This organization was founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914, five years after the NAACP, to promote self-help and nationalism.
15. The subject of an HBO movie in 1999, she became the first African-American nominated for an Academy Award, for playing the lead in "Carmen Jones" (1954).
16. The brutal murder of this 14-year-old boy in 1955 - and pictures of his mutilated face in an open casket - helped mobilize the Civil Rights Movement.
17. This southern city is home to the Edmund Pettis Bridge, upon which 600 demonstrators were viciously attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965.
18. Born in 1871, this teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist wrote "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing," later known as the Negro National Anthem.
19. This precursor to the NAACP was founded in 1905, not far from the natural wonder that inspired its name.
20. She's the founder and chairperson of Radio One, Inc., the nation's largest African-American owned and operated broadcast company.
21. This numerical fraction was a compromise between Southern and Northern states in 1787, to determine how much the slave population would count in determining federal representation and the distribution of taxes.
22. This southern city, the unofficial birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, was the site of a bus boycott organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955.
23. One of the most-accomplished women's basketball players ever, she won two national titles at USC, a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, and four titles in the WNBA.
24. This civil rights organization had chapters on campuses across the South in the 1960s, and coined the term "Black Power" under Stokely Carmichael.
25. This slave first sued for his freedom in 1847, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which issued its ruling in 1857.
