Statistics for Black History Quiz #1

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus - before Rosa Parks	Claudette Colvin	77%
Mailed himself to freedom	Henry Box Brown	41%
Mississippi Civil Rights activist who was sterilized without her consent and was severely beaten	Fannie Lou Hamer	27%
Surgeon who founded the 1st Black-run hospital	Daniel Hale Williams	18%
Inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2000. Earned an M.D. degree. 1st Black woman to win a medal at a Winter Olympics	Debbie Thomas	18%
Ambassador to 5 island nations in 2011-2013: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu	Frankie Reed	14%
Responsible for refrigerated trucks that bring us frozen foods	Frederick McKinley Jones	14%
Artist born in 1933 who lives in Washington, DC. You can see his work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum	Sam Gilliam	14%
1st Black woman to head a Fortune 500 Corporation - Xerox	Ursula Burns	14%
Architect and designer of the Duke University Chapel	Julian Abele	9%