Black History Month Day 3 Quiz: 10 African-American Notables - Examiner

This is Day 3 of Black History Month.

If you're interested in how Black History Month came about, please read Why is Black History Month celebrated during the shortest month of the year?

This month my column will be full of quizzes, so you can test your African-American history knowledge.

Let's get into the third quiz.

10 African-American Notables

The answers to these clues will come from the following list of names:

Deval Patrick; James Beckwourth; Cicely Tyson; Mayme A. Clayton; Maggie Walker; Carl Stokes; Robert Moses; Maria M. Stewart; Alain Locke; Blanche K. Bruce

1. This individual was the first African-American Rhodes Scholar.

2. This individual started the first school in Kansas for African-Americans, and this person was also elected to the U.S. Senate in 1874.

3. This individual was the first female bank president in the United States.

4. This individual established the Algebra Project, a program for underprivileged young people which encouraged them to translate their life experiences into mathematical concepts.

5. This individual helped create the first African-American Studies library at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).

6. This individual co-founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, was a model and starred in "The Guiding Light" and the miniseries "Roots."

7. This individual was the first African-American elected to the Ohio Legislature in 1962 and was the first African-American to be elected mayor of a major city in 1967; Cleveland.

8. This individual was an expert fur trapper and scout. This person even lived among Native Americans for a time and became chief of the Crow Nation. There is an important pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that was discovered by and named for this person.

9. This individual became Governor of Massachusetts in 2007 and took the Oath of Office on the same Bible presented to John Quincy Adams received from the Africans from the "Amistad" ship that Adams helped to free in 1841.

10. This individual was the first African-American to lecture before an audience of men and women in 1832; the New England Anti-slavery Society.

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