Black History Month Library Quiz

Black History Month is in full swing at St Augustine's. Try our library quiz on black history. 

• Where were the ‘Windrush’ generation from?

Bahamas
West indies
Costa Rica
Africa

• At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?

4 Million
2 Million
1 million
6 Million

• Which historical black nurse died in London in 1881 after saving many British soldiers during the Crimean War of 1855?

Mary Nightingale
Mary Seacole
Victoria Brown
Florence Nightingale

• In what year did the Ship ‘HMT Empire Windrush’ first arrive in Britain from the Caribbean?

1950
1948
1955
1960

• Who was the first Black Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Martin Luther King Jr.
Ralph Bunche
Nelson Mandela
Albert John Lutul

• Where in the UK did the Ship called the Empire Windrush arrive?

Liverpool
Southampton
Tilbury Docks
Dorset

• Who was the first Black musician to perform at the White House?

B.B. King
"Blind Tom" Wiggins
Louis Armstrong
Aretha Franklin

• Who signed The Emancipation Act (end of slavery) in the US?

Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan

• An American all-white jury acquitted J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of whom?

Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Emmett Till

• Who shot Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968?

John Wilkes Booth
Gavrilo Princip
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald

• Whose proposal that American Congress consider civil rights legislation culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson

• Sarah Goode was the first black woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?

Hair Straightening System
Lip Stick
Dry-Cleaning Process
Folding Bed

• Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first black man to become what?

Astronaut
Pilot
Army General
Policeman

• Who was the first black player to captain the England football team?

Laurie Cunningham
Paul Ince
John Barnes
Sol Campbell

• According to the ship's passenger lists onboard the Windrush, more than half of the 1,027 listed official passengers on board were from where?

America
Barbados
Jamaica
St Lucia