1. What year was Harvey Young, IU’s first black student, admitted to the university?

a. 1882
b. 1901
c. 1918
d. 1923

2. In 1994, Hilda Richards was appointed chancellor, making history as the first black female to hold an IU chancellorship. Can you name the campus she led?

a. Southeast
b. Kokomo
c. Northwest
d. Bloomington

3. In 1954, Alpha Phi Alpha was the first black team to enter the Little 500 race. What year did the next black team enter the cycling competition?

a. 1955
b. 1972
c. 1987
d. 1992

4. In the 1940s, operatic and concert vocalist Marian Anderson performed at Indiana University. Name the significance of her visit.

a. She is the first black person to perform in the IU Auditorium.
b. She is the first black person to stay overnight in the Indiana Memorial Union hotel.
c. She is the first black person to teach a vocal workshop.

5. In 1947, IU’s Bill Garrett became the Big Ten’s first black athlete in which sport?

a. basketball
b. wrestling
c. diving
d. football

6. Thomas Irving Atkins was elected IU’s first black student body president in 1960. His election also marked another first for black students because:

a. Atkins was the first black student body president at any Big Ten school
b. Atkins was the first black student to campaign for student body president
c. Atkins was the first black student to live in on-campus housing
d. Atkins was the first student to serve two academic years as student body president

7. The African American Arts Institute was founded in 1974. Name its founding director, who also founded IU Bloomington’s Department of Afro-American Studies (now called the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies):

a. Herman Hudson
b. Charlie Nelms
c. Charles Sykes
d. Herman B Wells

8. In January 2002, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center was dedicated in honor of the first male and first female African-American graduates of IU – Marcellus Neal and Frances Elizabeth Marshall. Which IU departments are also housed at the center:

a. African American Cultural Center Library
b. African American Arts Institute
c. Office of Diversity Education
d. Office of Community and School Partnerships
e. All of the above

ANSWERS

Douglass

In the March 11 edition of IU Home Pages, look for a story about Frederick Douglass, arguably the most famous African-American opponent of slavery in 19th-century America. Black History Month is celebrated in February as tribute to Douglass, who was born in February 1818. The Frederick Douglass Papers Project is housed at the Department of History at IUPUI.