Kentucky Black history quiz

RELEASED: Feb. 22, 2007

DANVILLE, KY—Kentucky's history is full of people and events that helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement and helped bring racial equality to the United States. February is Black History Month, and to celebrate Centre is giving a quiz to test how well you know Kentucky's rich Black history. And yes…there's a prize! (The exact prize will depend on where the winner is located.)

Submit your answers to the following 10 questions to Cindy Long by Thursday, March 1. All submissions with 10 correct answers will be placed in a random drawing. The winner, the prize and, most importantly, the answers to the questions, will be announced on the web Thursday, March 8. Please include your full name, hometown and telephone number with your submission.

Good luck!

How well do you know your Kentucky Black history?

1. What runaway slave, made famous by a book, was captured in Ohio and chose to kill her daughter rather than see the child returned back to slavery?

2. In 1902, who (and what was his horse's name) became the last African-American to win the Kentucky Derby?

3. What individual trained more than 200 Tuskegee airmen, but first made a mark in aviation history?

4. Elizabeth Hudson was the first African-American teacher at what school, for a salary of $35?

5. In 1916, in what Kentucky city was formed the first officially sanctioned Boy Scout troop comprised of African-Americans?

6. Benjamin F. Howard and Arthur Riggs formed what organization, which had a lodge in Covington, in the early 1900s?

7. An outspoken opponent of segregation, what Kentuckian's grandson is a current leader of the American Civil Rights movement?

8. What world-famous athlete hails from Louisville and continues today to be a leader in global humanitarian efforts?

9. What Simpsonville, Ky., native was honored with the Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 and had an educational enrichment program for youth named after him?

10. What Centre graduate and Supreme Court Justice cast the lone dissenting vote in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, which made "separate but equal" law?

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