1. Black History Month is February because:
a) Southern congressmen insisted it be placed in the shortest month of the federal calendar. b) Supporters of Malcolm X started the event as a mournful remembrance of his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965. c) February includes the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. d) The event was founded during the 1920s when W.E.B. DuBois was the nation's leading African-American intellectual. His birthday is in the month of February.
| Surely you can beat our score (22 out of the first 35 and four of the five bonus questions -- go easy on us, we've only been black for just over three decades!) on W. Kim Heron's Detroit Metro Times "Americana in Black" quiz (via randomWalks)?
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