African-Americans' ancestry came from African, and most of them resulted from enslaved black people to America. The city with the most African-Americans is Detroit. Did you know that the first African-American to graduate from Harvard College was Richard Theodore Greener? Do take up the quiz and get to see how well you know some African-Americans and their achievements over the years.
Ralph Bunche
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charles Drew
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Maria Stewart
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Core of Racial Equality (CORE)
Jesse Owens
Carl Lewis
Jackie Joyner Kersee
Wilma Rudolph
George Foreman
Mike Tyson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
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False
David Walker
William Wells Brown
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Nikki Giovanni
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
William Wells Brown
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Louis Farrakhan
El-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz
Elijah Muhammad
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Robeson
Noble Sissal
Sidney Poitier
William Warfield
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False
Austin
Houston
Lubbock
Galveston
Nikki Giovanni
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
J. California Cooper
Barbara Jordan
Shirley Chisholm
Patricia Roberts Harris
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
Barack Obama
Morris Overstreet
Carol Mosley Braun
Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Jordan
Constance Motley Brown
Bessie Smith
Josephine Baker
Lena Horne
Aretha Franklin
Mary McLeod Bethune
Coretta Scott King
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
True
False