Black History Month quiz

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Black History Month quiz

Thursday, February 22, 2001

1. In 1947, who led protests against Downtown department stores because the stores refused to hire African-American sales clerks?

2. Name the two hospitals that in 1947 became the first in Pittsburgh to admit African-Americans to their nursing schools.

3. Why did the NAACP Legal Redress Committee sue the City of Pittsburgh in 1951?

4. In 1952, Pittsburgh became the 22nd city in the United States to enact what code?

5. Name the two Pittsburgh organizations that evolved from the ongoing dialogue between corporate leaders and African-American community leaders on issues of employment, education and housing in 1960.

6. From where did Pittsburghers leave to go to the famous March on Washington in 1963?

7. Who organized a civil rights march on Harrisburg in 1965 to promote civil rights and the passage of the Pennsylvania Fair Housing Practices law?

8. Which Pittsburgher marched arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King Jr. in a 1967 protest march against the Vietnam War at the United Nations?

9. How many fires were set in Pittsburgh over a five-day period in April 1968 in response to the assassination if Martin Luther King Jr.?

10. In what year was the Black Construction Coalition formed in Pittsburgh, and why was it created?

1. Urban League public relations secretary K. Leroy Irvis.
2. Montefiore and St. Francis; Montefiore was also the first Pittsburgh hospital to grant staff privileges to an African-American physician, Dr. Charles Burks.
3. To desegregate the Highland Park pool and ensure the safety of interracial swimming groups.
4. The Fair Employment Practices code.
5. The Negro Education Emergency Drive (NEED) and Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise (PACE).
6. Freedom Corner, a spot at Centre Avenue and Crawford Street in the Hill District.
7. Marguerite Hofer, director of church and community for the Pittsburgh Presbytery and chairperson of the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Council.
8. Monsignor Charles Owen Rice.
9. 415, with an estimated damage of $1 million.
10. It was formed in 1969 to protest black workers' lack of construction jobs and union membership.