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African American history quiz answers

1. Ralph Bunche in 19502. Don Barksdale in 1948

3. Althea Gibson in 1956 at the French Open

4. P.B.S. Pinchback was appointed governor of Louisiana from Dec. 9, 1872 through Jan. 13, 1873, during impeachment proceedings against the elected governor

5. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia in 1990-94

6. Hiram Revels of Mississippi

7. Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina

8. Robert Lawrence Jr. in 1967 (died in a training flight crash).

9. Guion Bluford was first in space in 1983.

10. Mae Jemison was first black female in 1992.

11. Ruth Simmons in 2001 at Brown University

12. Phyllis Wheatley in 1773

13. Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer in poetry in 1950.

14. Moneta Sleet Jr.

15. Toni Morrison in 1993

16. Marian Anderson in 1955

17. Oscar Micheaux in 1919

18. Hattie McDaniel in 1940 as supporting actress in Gone with the Wind

19. Dorothy Dandridge

20. Nat King Cole in 1956 on The Nat King Cole Show

21. John Baxter “Doc” Taylor in 1908, as part of the 4 x 400 meter relay team. (The first medal ever won by an African-American was in 1904 by George Poage, who won two bronze medals in the 200 meter and 400 meter hurdles.)

22. Vonetta Flowers in 2002 in the bobsled

23. Alice Coachman in 1948 for the high jump

24. Madame C.J. Walker. Robert Johnson in 2001, Oprah in 2003

25. Patricia Robert Harris

26. February 1926

27. Jean Baptise Pointe DuSable

28. Frederick Douglass

29. Mary McLeod Bethune

30. Larry Doby

31. Johnathan Jasper Wright

32. B.O. Davis Sr.

33. Robert C. Weaver

34. Patricia Robert Harris

35. Asa Phillip Randolph

36. Freedom’s Journal