February – March 2001

Name ________________________Homeroom __________

Circle the correct answer to the following questions.  Turn in your completed Scavenger Hunt to either the Easton Public Library or the Helen Keller Middle School Media Center.  100% correct = 5 tickets; 75% = 4 tickets; 50% = 3 tickets.

1.      Who was the first African-American to win an Academy Award?

a.      Sidney Poitier

b.      Hattie McDaniel

c.      Ethel Waters

2.      Singer-actor Paul Robeson starred in the musical Showboat in 1928, singing his famous rendition of which song?

a.      Ol’ Man River

b.      Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

c.      Ain’t Misbehavin’

 3.      Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

a.      Gwendolyn Brooks

b.      Langston Hughes

c.      Alice Walker

4.      Who read her poetry at the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton?

a.      Gwendolyn Brooks

b.      Phyllis Wheatley

c.      Maya Angelou

5.      Track and field star Carl Lewis won how many gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games?

a.      Two

b.      Eight

c.      Four

6.      Noted African-American intellectural and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of which organization in 1910?

a.      National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

b.      The National Negro Business League

c.      Southern Christian Leadership Conference

7.      Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit in 1959?

a.      Sun Records

b.      Atlantic Records

c.      Motown Records

8.      The 15^th Amendment which granted African Americans the right to vote, was passed on which date?

a.      February 3, 1870

b.      July 14, 1889

c.      November 19, 1910

9.      Marian Wright Edelman, a successful lawyer and activist, established which organization in 1973?

a.      Children’s Defense Fund

b.      Operation PUSH

c.      Habitat for Humanity

10. What did writer-director Spike Lee’s movie Do The Right Thing bring to the screen?

a.      A race riot

b.      An interracial marriage

c.      The life of Malcolm X

11. Star basketball player Michael Jordan led his team, the Chicago Bulls, to how many NBA World Championships in the 1990s?

a.      Four

b.      Six

c.      Eight

12. The Harlem Renaissance, a period of artistic flowering among African American writers and artists that was centered in Harlem, occurred roughly during which decade?

a.      1910s

b.      1920s

c.      1930s

13. In 1955 contralto Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing on stage at which auditorium?

a.      Symphony Hall, Boston

b.      Carnegie Hall, New York

c.      The Metropolitan Opera House, New York

14. In 1957 Althea Gibson became the first African American to do what?

a.      She won at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open

b.      She joined the Ladies’ Professional Golf Association

c.      She was named chairperson of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

15. Who delivered I Have a Dream Speech on August 28, 1963?

a.      Malcolm X

b.      Ralph Abernathy

c.      Martin Luther King, Jr.

16. Which African-American entertainer was the first to have a top role in a television show, called I Spy?

a.      Sammy Davis Jr.

b.      Nat King Cole

c.      Bill Cosby

17. Which of these boxers refused induction into the U.S. military?

a.      George Foreman

b.      Muhammad Ali

c.      Joe Frazier

18. Who refused to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?

a.      Harriet Tubman

b.      Susan B. Anthony

c.      Rosa Parks

19. Which track and field star overcame childhood polio to become one of the greatest athletes of her time?

a.      Wilma Rudolph

b.      Gail Devers

c.      Florence Griffith Joyner

20. What key event in the civil rights movement happened in 1964?

a.      Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be appointed to the US Supreme Court

b.      Congress passed the Civil Rights Act

c.      The Black Panther Party was formed

21. Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player, played for which team?

a.      Baltimore Orioles

b.      Brooklyn Dodgers

c.      New York Yankees

22. Jackie Joyner Kersee won a gold medal in which event at both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics?

a.      100-meter hurdles

b.      Heptathlon

c.      400m freestyle

23. Who founded Tuskegee Institute, one of the leading African-American educational institutions in America, in 1881?

a.      Booker T. Washington

b.      George Washington Carver

c.      Frederick Douglass

24. Which landmark Supreme Court case represented an important victory for the civil rights movement in 1954?

a.      Plessy vs. Ferguson

b.      Dred Scott vs. Sandford

c.      Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka

25. Who is the new Secretary of State?

a.      Louis Farrakhan

b.      Jesse Jackson

c.      Colin Powell

EXTRA CREDIT:

1.      Who invented the traffic light?

a.     James Fortin Sr.

b.     Garrett Augustus Morgan

c.      Jan Matzeliger