Attention High School Students…
Enter The City’s Black History Month Contest!
CONTEST RULES:
• Open ONLY to high school students who are West Park residents – with proof of residency.
• Entries must be submitted only by student entering contest.
• Answers must be written in ink directly on this page of the newspaper. Copies will not be accepted.
• The first student to submit the completed quiz with the most correct answers by the deadline, will be selected winner.
• The deadline to submit entries is Thursday, February 14, 2018 by 4:00 p.m.
• If you participated in the previous two contests, you are not eligible.
• Entries must be hand delivered directly to:
ATTN: CITY CLERK
CITY OF WEST PARK, CITY HALL
1965 SOUTH STATE ROAD 7, WEST PARK, FL 33023.
1. What was the purpose of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?
2. Which state elected Representative Arthur W. Mitchell as the first black Democrat in Congress?
3. What famous educator and social reformer wrote “Up From Slavery?”
4. Who was the first African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon?
5. Who was the first African American U.S. senator?
6. Did Daniel Hale Williams perform the first successful open-heart surgery or the first kidney transplant?
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7. In 1857, did the U.S. Supreme Court decide that Dred Scott of Missouri was a slave or a free man?
8. Who was the first African American ever to coach an NBA team?
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9. Name the greatest jazz musician whose signature tune was “Take The A Train.”
10. The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted suffrage rights to African American men. When was the Fifteenth Amendment adopted? And what does “suffrage” mean?
11. Name one of the two founders of the Black Panther Party in 1966.
12. On May 10, 1994, who was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa?
13. Which U.S. president signed Executive Order 9981 ending racial discrimination in the armed forces?
14. Name the athlete who defied Hitler’s theory of black inferiority by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany?
15. Who was president of the United States when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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16. How did a former Tennessee slave named Nat Love come to be known as “Deadwood Dick”?
17. To What African people is the Golden Stool a symbol of unity and strength?
The Niagara Movement supported voting rights for African Americans. Who was its most famous founding member?
18. In what year did apartheid officially end in South Africa?
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19. Who was the first African American ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court?
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20. Was Bessie Coleman the first black woman to obtain a license to practice nursing or to fly a plane?
21. Which major league baseball franchise was the first to sign an African American player?
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22. Charlotta Spears Bass was the first African American woman to run for U.S. vice president. Was she a member of the Independent or Progressive Party?
23. In 1990, who became the first African American female mayor of Washington, D.C.?
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24. Name the important botanist who came to be known as “The Peanut Man”.
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25. Name the scientist whose research led to an efficient method of storing large quantities of blood plasma in “blood banks”.
26. Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
27. Who invented a vertical spring that made it possible for cars to have convertible tops?
28. Who was the first African American ever to receive an Academy Award?
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29. What southern state elected Douglas Wilder as the first black governor since Reconstruction?
30. Who was the first black student ever to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
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31. Jesse Jackson established the black self-help group that came to be known as PUSH. What do the letters in PUSH stand for?
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32. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American to make a formal bid for the U.S. Presidency. Who was the second?
33. On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white male. Who is she?
34. Name the organization whose slogan is “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”.
35. What literary figure came to be called “the poet laureate of the Negro race”?
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36. What name did Elijah Poole take when he assumed leadership of the Nation of Islam?
37. In 1968, did Ralph Abernathy lead the Poor People’s March or The March on Washington?
38. What was the first black town to be incorporated in the U.S. which was also home to famous author Zora Neale Hurston?
39. Who was the first African American man ever to host his own network television talk show?
40. Who was the first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress?
41. In the American Revolution African Americans fought only on the colonial side. True or False?
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42. What prizefighter regained the heavyweight crown 20 years after Muhammad Ali took it away from him in 1974?
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43. What was the first black African nation to win its independence from colonial rule?
44. Which African American female is best known for her contributions to literature, especially her 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved?
45. In 1808 a bill was signed into law that made it illegal to import slaves into the U.S. Which president signed the bill?
46. In 1983, Charles Rangel of New York became the first black deputy whip in the House of Representatives. What job does the whip do?
47. Which U.S. Supreme Court decision declared schools segregation unconstitutional?
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48. Edward Dudley was the first African American diplomat to serve as a U.S. Ambassador. To what African country was he posted?
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49. Who is the first African American mayor of the City of West Park?
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