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Black History Month Trivia Answers

As promised, here are the answers to yesterday's trivia quiz.

Here are the answers to How many did you know?

  1. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, this orator, writer and social commentator advised Abraham Lincoln on African-American issues during the Civil War. By what name is he best known? Frederick Douglass
  2. Who was the first African-American Supreme Court justice? Thurgood Marshall
  3. From what institution did Martin Luther King Jr. receive his doctorate? Boston Univerity
  4. Who was the first black astronaut to perform a space walk? Bernard Harris Jr.
  5. What was the name of the African-American dockworker killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770? Crispus Attucks

Related Topics: Black History Month


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