VKMI Black History Month Survey 1

This is our first week to celebrate Black History Month by getting to know and appreciate the contributions of African Americans to the United States and the world. Please click the correct response to each question. Winners of this week’s drawing will be announced next Sunday.

Who is known as the father of Black History Month?

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* 1. Who is known as the father of Black History Month?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

Thurgood Marshall

Dr. Carter G. Woodson

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 while playing for which team?

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* 2. Baseball legend Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 while playing for which team?

Brooklyn Dodgers

Boston Red Sox

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers

What are the names of the first Black actor and actress to win the Academy Award Best Actor and Best Actress?

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* 3. What are the names of the first Black actor and actress to win the Academy Award Best Actor and Best Actress?

Denzel Washington (2001) and Halle Berry (2001)

Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1996) and Jennifer Hudson (2006)

James Earl Jones (1970) and Hattie McDaniel (1939)

Sidney Poitier (1963) and Halle Berry (2001)

All of these Black icons have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, EXCEPT:

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* 4. All of these Black icons have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, EXCEPT:

Maya Angelou

Sidney Poitier

Barack Obama

Muhammad Ali

Oprah Winfrey

What is the name of the Chicago teen who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955, a tragedy that helped spur the civil rights movement?

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* 5. What is the name of the Chicago teen who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955, a tragedy that helped spur the civil rights movement?

Emmett Til

James Brown

Nathaniel Wright

Louis Williams

This writer was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance and is the author of the iconic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Who is she?

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* 6. This writer was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance and is the author of the iconic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Who is she?

Sister Soujah

Maya Angelou

Phillis Wheatley

Zora Neale Hurston

In the landmark court case, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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* 7. In the landmark court case, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

Black and white public school facilities should be separate but equal.

Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Black students could attend previously all-white schools as long as they lived within two miles of the school.

White students could attend previously all-Black schools with written permission from their parents.

In what year did Harry Truman sign an executive order that integrated the U.S. military?

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* 8. In what year did Harry Truman sign an executive order that integrated the U.S. military?

1948

1938

1956

1949

What was the name of the slave who led the largest slave rebellion in history in 1831?

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* 9. What was the name of the slave who led the largest slave rebellion in history in 1831?

Harriet Tubman

Booker T. Washington

Frederick Douglass

Nat Turner

Contact Information

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* 10. Contact Information

Name

Email Address

Phone Number

This is our first week to celebrate Black History Month by getting to know and appreciate the contributions of African Americans to the United States and the world. Please click the correct response to each question. Winners of this week’s drawing will be announced next Sunday. OK

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* 1. Who is known as the father of Black History Month?

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* 2. Baseball legend Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 while playing for which team?

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* 3. What are the names of the first Black actor and actress to win the Academy Award Best Actor and Best Actress?

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* 4. All of these Black icons have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, EXCEPT:

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* 5. What is the name of the Chicago teen who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955, a tragedy that helped spur the civil rights movement?

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* 6. This writer was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance and is the author of the iconic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Who is she?

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* 7. In the landmark court case, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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* 8. In what year did Harry Truman sign an executive order that integrated the U.S. military?

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* 9. What was the name of the slave who led the largest slave rebellion in history in 1831?

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* 10. Contact Information

This is our first week to celebrate Black History Month by getting to know and appreciate the contributions of African Americans to the United States and the world. Please click the correct response to each question. Winners of this week’s drawing will be announced next Sunday.