Black History Quiz - MSN Encarta

The first Africans brought for slave labor to the English colonies in North America came on a Dutch privateer that landed in August 1619 in which colony:

Captives in Central Africa (Image credit: Hulton Deutsch)

New Amsterdam (later New York City), New York

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Charleston, South Carolina

Jamestown, Virginia

Which was the first Northern state to either abolish slavery outright, or pass gradual emancipation laws that freed slave children when they reached adulthood:

Rhode Island

Vermont

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Born in Maryland in 1817, the son of a slave woman and a white man, this escaped slave taught himself to read and write, and became the most prominent black orator, journalist and antislavery leader of 19th-century America:

Dred Scott

David Ruggles

Frederick Douglass

Charles Lenox Remond

Harriet Tubman, who fled slavery and guided other escaped slaves to freedom for over a decade on the Underground Railroad, made 19 of these dangerous missions to the South. About how many slaves did she guide to freedom in the North?

Harriet Tubman (Image credit: Culver Pictures)

100

220

300

Black American historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois became one of the founding officers of which organization in 1910:

W.E.B. Du Bois (Image credit: Archive Photos)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The Society of Friends

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Liberty Party

This 1933 graduate of Howard University Law School became the first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States:

Crispus Attucks

Booker T. Washington

A. Philip Randolph

Thurgood Marshall

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to compete in baseball's major leagues, breaking the color barrier for baseball, as well as other areas of American society. What team did he play for?

Jackie Robinson (Image credit: Archive Photos)

Baltimore Orioles

Brooklyn Dodgers

Boston Red Sox

Boston Braves

Which civil rights leader delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to over 200,000 people on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.:

Medgar Evers

Stokely Carmichael

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Roy Wilkins

Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, this writer became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993:

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker

Zora Neale Hurston

Lorraine Hansberry

Colin Powell became the first black person to hold this office in the U.S. government, after George W. Bush began his presidency in 2001:

Colin L. Powell (Image credit: Ray Stubblebine/Reuters/Corbis)

Secretary of Defense

Secretary of State

Attorney General

Secretary of Homeland Security