I normally start off Black History month with facts. Last year I started off with questions. This year I am gonna start off with someone else’s questions. I got this off of another one of my internet listservs. It was done by a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority by the name of Cecilia West. So she get the credit for this one. She said that this was probably a sign that maybe she needs to QUIT her corporate america job and become a teacher. I agreed with her immediately. Not only did she teach ME a few things, but her delivery was with such pride and joy. Like she ENJOYED doing this. Hell, I told her TWICE that she needs to be a professor of Black Studies. In any event, here goes and have a PROGRESSIVE Black History month…
WALK WITH PRIDE!
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1. Which of the following was NOT a Black Nationalist movement?
a. A. Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
b. Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam
c. Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association
2. Which of the following civil rights murder trials ended with the all-white jury reaching their verdict to acquit to the two white suspects in just over an hour? With double-jeopardy protecting them from being retried, the two later boasted about the murders in a Look magazine interview, for which they were paid $4,000.
a. The 1955 murder of Emmett Till
b. The 1964 murders of civil right workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Michael Schwerner
c. The murder of Medgar Evers
3. In January 1849, this slave couple escaped from Georgia, the wife dressed in man’s clothing and passing as the master while her husband passed as the servant. What was this couple’s name?
a. Peter & Vina Still
b. Solomon & Anne Northup
c. Frederick & Jane Bailey
d. Ellen & William Craft
4. What leader often referred to as the “Black Moses” suffered from two stroke and then died after reading his obituary by a reporter?
a. Alan Locke
b. Crispus Attucks
c. Marcus Garvey
d. Frederick Douglas
5. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves in the United States. True or False.
6. What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
a. The Black Star Line
b. BET Holdings
c. Johnson Publishing
d. Ariel Capital
7. The hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” by James Weldon Johnson, was meant to celebrate whose birthday?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. W.E.B. Dubois
8. Who holds the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?
a. Earl Manigault
b. Julius Erving
c. Oscar Robertson
d. Wilt Chamberlain
9. Who founded the National Negro Business League?
a. Chris Gardner
b. Malcolm X
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Huey Newton
10. Who was a cofounder of the Niagara Movement along with DuBois and William Moore Trotter and later became the first black president of an Atlanta HBCU?
a. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
b. John Hope
c. Walter Francis White
d. James Farmer Jr.
Bonus Questions:
~ List the Civil Right’s BIG 6.
Answers
1. A. Philip Randolph. Black nationalism was the central tenet of both Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam and Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association.
2. The 1955 murder of Emmett Till. Milam & Bryant both died of cancer. This was one of the most tragic stories I’ve ever read about. Please wikipedia it and read in more detail the story and the unknown facts of his murder.
3. d. William & Ellen Craft In January 1849, the fugitive slave couple decided upon a plan to disguise Ellen as an infirm White man, and William, as a faithful slave, accompanying his “master” to Philadelphia for medical treatment. They arrived in Boston after traveling over 1000 miles from captivity in Macon, Georgia.
4. Marcus Garvey. This was another great man to read about. He was famous for the Black Star (a shipping line owned by blacks) but he was sold out by his “friends” who were under cover spies for the president. He was jailed for money fraud (after the proper investigation it was $25) the S.S. Phyllis Wheatly which he was advertising for but he really didn’t have that ship yet. The S.S. Frederick Douglas was one of his first ships. Youtube his name and listen and view the documentary of him its four parts. Very Good!! “You can find me in a whirlwind”
5. False!! Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be freed gradually. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln’s secretary of state, commented, “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.” Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union by setting their slaves free.
6. BET Holdings. We all know Bob Johnson well in 1991 he made the company public and sold 21% for 72million (double check that)! must be nice eh?…
7. Abraham Lincoln. This song was performed in Jacksonville, Florida by a children’s choir at the school that James Weldon Johnson was principal at for Lincoln’s birthday.
8. Wilt Chamberlain. Of Course!! Any real basketball fan should know this one. 169-147 Warriors game against the NY Knicks! Do you all remember the Harlem Globetrotters Well how about I have a signed ball and his card!! Ok I’m kidding. Next!
9. Booker T. Washington. Established in 1900 by Washington – the mission and main goal of the National Negro Business League was to promote the commercial and financial devpt of the Negro.
10. John Hope. This organization basically called for an opposition of racial segregation and with the purposes of civil liberty and equal opportunities. And Camp John Hope is in the Macon/Warner Robbins area. I’m sure there are others like me that were forced to go to camp in the summers.
Bonus Question:
James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, & Whitney Young
Now if I have I have learned something from this then I know that you all have too. Have a HAPPY Black History Month and as always, WALK WITH PRIDE.