THE BLACK COLLEGIAN's African-American History Contest

This year's contest deadline has passed. Please see answers to the quiz questions below. Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to all of the winners.

QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. This precursor to the NAACP was founded in 1905, not far from the natural wonder that inspired its name.
NIAGARA MOVEMENT

2. She's the founder and chairperson of Radio One, Inc., the nation's largest African-American owned and operated broadcast company.
KATHY HUGHES

3. This numerical fraction was a compromise between Southern and Northern states in 1787, to determine how much the slave population would count in determining federal representation and the distribution of taxes.
THREE-FIFTHS

4. This southern city, the unofficial birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, was the site of a bus boycott organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA

5. One of the most-accomplished women's basketball players ever, she won two national titles at USC, a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, and four titles in the WNBA.
CYNTHIA COOPER

6. This civil rights organization had chapters on campuses across the South in the 1960s, and coined the term "Black Power" under Stokely Carmichael.
STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC)

7. This slave first sued for his freedom in 1847, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which issued its ruling in 1857.
DRED SCOTT

8. Considered the father of African-American history, he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began promoting "Negro History Week" in 1926, which became Black History Month in the 1960s.
CARTER G. WOODSON

9. This Midwest city was the home of Greenwood, aka "Negro Wall Street," in the early 1900s, before the district was destroyed in 1921 in one of the nation's worst race riots.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA

10. After overcoming a bout with polio as a child, this track star at the 1960 Olympics in Rome became the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympiad.
WILMA RUDOLPH

11. Originally founded to patrol Oakland's ghettoes and protect residents from police brutality in 1966, this revolutionary group later adopted Marxism and developed more than five dozen community programs.
BLACK PANTHERS

12. A radical activist, she was briefly on the FBI's most-wanted list in the 1970s before becoming a college professor in California.
ANGELA DAVIS

13. This landmark Supreme Court case in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public accommodations, under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
PLESSY vs FERGUSON

14. Three civil rights workers were murdered by reputed Klan members in this southern city in 1964, a horrific crime which roused millions of average Americans.
PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI

15. A native of Chicago competing in the 2006 Olympics in Salt Lake City, he became the first African-American speed skater to win a gold medal in an individual winter sport.
SHANI DAVIS

16. Founded in 1837 as the African Institute, this is the nation's oldest historically black college, now named for the Pennsylvania town in which it's located.
CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY

17. This son of a slave was a noted mathematician and astronomer, and in 1791 played an integral role in the first survey of Washington, D.C.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER

18. This landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 led to the end of legal segregation in U.S. education.
BROWN vs BOARD OF EDUCATION

19. This southern city is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, built around the former Lorraine Motel, on the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

20. Raising their fists in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, led to these U.S. track stars being suspended from the team and banished from the athletes' village.
TOMMIE SMITH and JOHN CARLOS

21. This organization was founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914, five years after the NAACP, to promote self-help and nationalism.
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (UNIA)

22. The subject of an HBO movie in 1999, she became the first African-American nominated for an Academy Award, for playing the lead in "Carmen Jones" (1954).
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

23. The brutal murder of this 14-year-old boy in 1955 – and pictures of his mutilated face in an open casket – helped mobilize the Civil Rights Movement.
EMMETT TILL

24. This southern city is home to the Edmund Pettis Bridge, upon which 600 demonstrators were viciously attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965.
SELMA, ALABAMA

25. Born in 1871, this teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist wrote "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man" and the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing," later known as the Negro National Anthem.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

Meet all of this year's winners !